Deck 9: Psychopathology: Schizophrenia

Question 1

Schizophrenia is a group of psychopathologies that are classified as:

A) Mood disorders
B) Anxiety disorders
C) Panic disorders
D) Psychotic disorders
E) Affect disorders

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Schizophrenia is characterised by a significant loss of contact with:

A) Social life
B) Parents
C) Friends
D) Dreams
E) Reality

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The five main types of schizophrenia are:

A) Disorganised, catatonic, paralysed, undifferentiated, and residual
B) Disorganised, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and resentful
C) Distraught, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual
D) Disorganised, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual
E) Disorganised, cataleptic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Reliability, in diagnostic testing, means the findings are:

A) Different when done by different psychologists
B) The same for every schizophrenia sufferer
C) Highly variable
D) Different at different times
E) Accurate and consistent

Question 5

Validity, in diagnostic testing, means the tests are:

A) Highly variable
B) The same for every schizophrenia sufferer
C) Measuring what they are intended to measure
D) Different when done by different psychologists
E) None of these

Question 6

Similarities between schizophrenia and other psychopathologies making it harder to discriminate between them is known as:

A) Comorbidity
B) Cooperation
C) Coincidence
D) Conflict
E) Constancy

Question 7

Biological explanations of schizophrenia focusing on genetics compare concordance rates in twins, which are the percentage of:

A) How many twin pairs are fraternal (DZ)
B) How many twin pairs are identical (MZ)
C) Both twins having the disorder
D) How many twins were raised apart
E) How many twins were raised together

Question 8

Concordance rates support genetic causes for schizophrenia if the rate for identical twins is:

A) The same for adoptive and biological parents
B) Much less than for fraternal twins
C) The same as for fraternal twins
D) Greater for adoptive parents than biological parents
E) Much greater than for fraternal twins

Question 9

Biochemical explanations for schizophrenia are focused on excessive activity of the neurotransmitter:

A) Dopamine
B) Serotonin
C) Acetylcholine
D) Adrenaline
E) Noradrenaline

Question 10

Evolutionary explanations for schizophrenia are challenged by:

A) None of these
B) All of these
C) Poor support for schizophrenics as leaders
D) Poor support for the language hypothesis as the only explanation
E) Evolutionary explanations being conjecture and speculation

Question 11

Behavioural explanations for schizophrenia suggest that these are learned when a phobic stimulus is:

A) Avoided because it causes fear
B) Very frightening
C) Associated with an aversive stimulus creating fear
D) Avoided because that reduces fear
E) Experienced after fear

Question 12

Psychodynamic theory regards schizophrenia as caused by fixations in the early stages of psychosexual development followed in adulthood by:

A) The demands of the superego
B) Sublimation
C) Regression
D) Individual sexuality
E) Repressed anger against same-sex parents

Question 13

Cognitive theory suggests that schizophrenia is the result of:

A) Long-lasting learning
B) Short-term depression
C) Long-term depression
D) Social anxiety
E) Long-lasting cognitive deficits

Question 14

Social explanations of schizophrenia typically depend on retrospective data, which means that:

A) Causality can be established
B) Causality cannot be established
C) Serious life events occur a year before the disorder develops
D) More serious life events have occurred
E) Less serious life events have occurred

Question 15

The explanation that internal predisposition and external stress are both needed to trigger schizophrenia is called the:

A) Diathesis-stress model
B) Nature-nurture model
C) General model
D) Bio-social model
E) Socio-cultural model

Question 16

Problems with biological therapy using drugs include:

A) Having unwanted and unpleasant side-effects
B) Treating symptoms rather than causes
C) Not being specific for one particular disorder but the same for several types of schizophrenia
D) None of these
E) All of these

Question 17

The lack of effectiveness in token economy therapy's transference into the real world is likely to be the result of:

A) The increase in direct rewards
B) The absence of direct rewards
C) Long-lasting problems
D) The simplicity of therapy
E) A dislike of the therapist

Question 18

Cognitive-behavioural therapy using coping strategy enhancement has five key features including:

A) The patient's delusions are ignored
B) An emphasis that the patient is mad
C) Cooperation between patient and therapist
D) The patient's hallucinations are ignored
E) Additional coping strategies are ignored

Question 19

Cognitive therapy can work well but is criticised because it:

A) Only works well with schizophrenia's positive symptoms
B) Is less effective in dealing with schizophrenia's negative symptoms
C) Might not be effective against relapses
D) All of these
E) None of these

Question 20

Family therapy using the optimal treatment project format involves:

A) Teaching social skills
B) Advising on social networks
C) Drug therapy
D) All of these
E) None of these