Question 1

In schizophrenia,functional outcomes&#8230;&#10;A) are a patient's willingness to take antipsychotic medications.&#10;B) consist of a patient's ability to separate reality from fantasy.&#10;C) include a patient's self-reported number of hallucinations or other psychotic behaviors.&#10;D) consist of the capabilities a patient has to perform normal everyday activities.

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D

Question 2

Approximately what percentage of people have schizophrenia?&#10;A) 1%&#10;B) 5%&#10;C) 10%&#10;D) 15%

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A

Question 3

A theory that attempts to link abnormalities in processing,coordinating,and responding to information to deficits in cognitive functioning is called&#8230;&#10;A) sensory gating hypothesis.&#10;B) dopamine hypothesis.&#10;C) cognitive dysmetria.&#10;D) schizophrenia prodrome hypothesis.

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C

Question 4

If a patient with catatonic schizophrenia does not improve with antipsychotic medication,a psychiatrist may next prescribe a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) psychostimulant drug.&#10;B) benzodiazepine drug.&#10;C) antidepressant drug.&#10;D) opioid drug.

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Question 5

All of the following are examples of functional outcomes in schizophrenia except&#8230;&#10;A) making sense of a checking account.&#10;B) carrying out daily hygeinic practices.&#10;C) picking out appropriate clothing to wear.&#10;D) having fewer depressive thoughts.

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Question 6

There are profound and consistent impairments in cognitive functioning found in schizophrenia,but&#8230;&#10;A) the DSM-5 does not consider this a symptom of schizophrenia.&#10;B) this has no impact on functional outcomes.&#10;C) this has no impact on a patient's quality of life.&#10;D) medications are seldom used to address these impairments.

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Question 7

For a patient with schizophrenia who appears socially withdrawn and displays litte emotion,a psychiatrist would likely note&#8230;&#10;A) an indication of positive symptoms.&#10;B) clear cognitive impairment.&#10;C) the presense of negative symptoms.&#10;D) disturbed thinking.

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Question 8

For AIDS,antipsychotic drugs may be used to&#8230;&#10;A) treat psychosis.&#10;B) reduce muscle spasms.&#10;C) counteract the side effects of other medications used for AIDS.&#10;D) preclude the use of drugs of abuse.

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Question 9

In schizophrenia,the addition of abnormal behaviors such as hallucinations are considered&#8230;&#10;A) psychiatric symptoms.&#10;B) behavioral symptoms.&#10;C) negative symptoms.&#10;D) positive symptom

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Question 10

A reduction in normal behaviors,such as reduced emotional responsiveness,is called&#8230;&#10;A) cognitive impairment.&#10;B) positive symptoms.&#10;C) negative symptoms.&#10;D) disturbed thinking.

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Question 11

Catatonia will occur in some patients with the following disorders except&#8230;&#10;A) depression.&#10;B) anxiety disorders.&#10;C) alcohol withdrawal.&#10;D) AIDS.

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Question 12

The features of schizophrenia include all of the following except&#8230;&#10;A) lifelong mental illness.&#10;B) exceptional memory.&#10;C) disturbed thinking.&#10;D) an inability to understand what is real.

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Question 13

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia consists of&#8230;&#10;A) deficits in working memory.&#10;B) impaired attention.&#10;C) reduced reference memory.&#10;D) all of these.

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Question 14

A patient with schizophrenia is normally first diagnosed around age&#8230;&#10;A) 10.&#10;B) 20.&#10;C) 30.&#10;D) 40.

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Question 15

How many patients with schizophrenia treated with antipsychotics are able to find employment?&#10;A) none.&#10;B) some.&#10;C) most.&#10;D) all.

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Question 16

The abandonment of schizophrenia subtypes from the DSM-5,although found in the earlier DSM-IV-TR,means&#8230;&#10;A) that insurance companies were inconsistent with their coverage of each subtype.&#10;B) that earlier editions of the DSM were incorrect about having different subtypes of schizophrenia.&#10;C) the subtypes no longer exist in schizophrenia.&#10;D) that the different subtypes did not add value to actually making a schizophrenia diagnosis.

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Question 17

A patient who displays mostly positive symptoms including suspiciousness would likely be identified as having&#8230;&#10;A) residual schizophrenia.&#10;B) catatonic schizophrenia.&#10;C) disorganized schizophrenia.&#10;D) paranoid schizophrenia.

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Question 18

An inability to ignore unimportant stimuli from one's environment is referred to as a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) jump to conclusions.&#10;B) inattention to detail.&#10;C) sensory-gating deficit.&#10;D) memory impairment.

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Question 19

A patient with schizophrenia who has not improved after two attempts of treatment with an antipsycotic drug would be identified as&#8230;&#10;A) a poor antipsychotic metabolizer.&#10;B) having treatment-resistant schizophrenia.&#10;C) a patient with poor compliance.&#10;D) having residual schizophrenia.

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Question 20

A patient who displays significant negative symptoms including little body movement would likely be identified as having&#8230;&#10;A) catatonic schizophrenia.&#10;B) disorganized schizophrenia.&#10;C) paranoid schizophrenia.&#10;D) undifferentiated schizophrenia.

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Question 21

In 1871,Ewald Hecker coined a mental disorder ___________,which later became known as schizophrenia.&#10;A) hebephrenia&#10;B) dementia praecox&#10;C) nervous breakdown&#10;D) cognitive dysmetria

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Question 22

The DISC1 protein&#8230;&#10;A) plays a role in neuron development.&#10;B) is a precusor for the synthesis of dopamine.&#10;C) specifically grows neurons in the ventral tegmental area.&#10;D) is found concentrated in the hippocampus.

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Question 23

The result of a frontal lobotomy was typically&#8230;&#10;A) an inability to recall long-term memories.&#10;B) a complete recovery from symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;C) drowsiness and disorientation.&#10;D) highly aggressive behavior.

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Question 24

All of the following were attempted treatments for schizophrenia that eventually ceased after the discovery of antipsychotic drugs except&#8230;&#10;A) ice baths.&#10;B) electrical shocks.&#10;C) frontal lobotomies.&#10;D) isolation cells.

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Question 25

For someone exhibiting prodromal features of schizophrenia,schizophrenia may develop from&#8230;&#10;A) factors such as stress.&#10;B) a genetic trigger at a certain stage of development.&#10;C) a physical injury.&#10;D) reading fantasy novels.

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Question 26

Dr.Walter Freeman became best known for&#8230;&#10;A) standard lobotomy.&#10;B) transcranial lobotomy.&#10;C) open lobotomy.&#10;D) transorbital leucotomy.

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Question 27

A hypothesis of schizophrenia that states that abnormal nervous system development leads to changes in the brain that cause schizophrenia is called the&#8230;&#10;A) neurodegenerative hypothesis.&#10;B) dopamine hypothesis.&#10;C) prodromal hypothesis.&#10;D) neurodevelopmental hypothesis.

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Question 28

Prior to a first diagnosis of schizophrenia,early signs of schizophrenia likely occur before this during the&#8230;&#10;A) prodromal phase of schizophrenia.&#10;B) pre-schizophrenia phase.&#10;C) early development phase of schizophrenia.&#10;D) pre-cognitive phase of schizophrenia.

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Question 29

Chlorprozamine was developed as a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) antipsychotic drug.&#10;B) antidepressant drugs.&#10;C) preanesthetic drug.&#10;D) analgesic drug.

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Question 30

While clear changes in the size of neural tissue has alluded schizophrenia researchers&#8230;&#10;A) the size of the ventral tegmental is modestly, but consistently, larger in schizophrenia.&#10;B) the size of neurons appears to be smaller in schizophrenia.&#10;C) ventricles are large in schizophrenia patients.&#10;D) neural networks may be abnormal in schizophrenia patients.

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Question 31

Bleuler used the term schizophrenia based on observing&#8230;&#10;A) separation for reality.&#10;B) splitting of psychic functions.&#10;C) engagement in childlike thinking.&#10;D) dementia symptoms occurring in young adults.

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Question 32

Most evidence for a genetic basis of schizophrenia points to the&#8230;&#10;A) Finnish schizophrenia gene.&#10;B) disrupted schizophrenia 1 gene.&#10;C) dopamine transporter gene.&#10;D) serotonin transporter gene.

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Question 33

An individual who has an immediate relative with schizophrenia and has recently begun having poor grades in school,declined short-term memory,and is having paranoid thinking is likely in the&#8230;&#10;A) pre-cognitive dysmetric stage of schizophrenia.&#10;B) prodromal phase of schizophrenia.&#10;C) early development phase of schizophrenia.&#10;D) dopamine hyperactivity phase of schizophrenia.

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Question 34

For identical twins,if one of the twins has schizophrenia,what is the chance that the other twin will have schizophrenia?&#10;A) 0%&#10;B) 25%&#10;C) 50%&#10;D) 100%

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Question 35

Those with schizophrenia appear to have fewer projections from the thalamus to the&#8230;&#10;A) prefrontal cortex.&#10;B) hippocampus.&#10;C) cingulate cortex.&#10;D) cerebellum.

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Question 36

An investigation into how changes in fetal development might cause symptoms of schizophrenia in early adulthood would likely be following the &#8230;&#10;A) neurodegenerative hypothesis.&#10;B) dopamine hypothesis.&#10;C) prodromal hypothesis.&#10;D) neurodevelopmental hypothesis.

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Question 37

Kraeplin used the term __________ for schizophrenia after noting certain changes in memory and thinking that he saw in elderly patients.&#10;A) split personality&#10;B) hebephrenia praecox&#10;C) dementia praecox&#10;D) early-onset Alzheimer's disease

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Question 38

The reason why an identical twin does not while her other twin does have schizophrenia is likely due to&#8230;&#10;A) the length of time of engaging in imaginary play as children.&#10;B) a willingness not to engage in paranoid thoughts.&#10;C) one's medication history.&#10;D) differences in how genes are expressed.

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Question 39

The first antipyschotic drug that was discovered was &#8230;&#10;A) chlorpromazine.&#10;B) chlordiazepoxide.&#10;C) clozapine.&#10;D) haloperidol.

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Question 40

The most consistent structural difference for those with schizophrenia includes&#8230;&#10;A) reduced volume in the right prefrontal cortex.&#10;B) reduced volume of the left temporal lobe.&#10;C) increased volume of the left and right hippocampus.&#10;D) reduced volume of the right nucleus accumbens.

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Question 41

Based on the glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia,an agonist for glutamate might&#8230;&#10;A) have no effects.&#10;B) reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;C) worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;D) diminish the effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs.

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Question 42

Unlike the dopamine hypothesis,the glutamate hypothesis for schizophrenia&#8230;&#10;A) explains a lack of treatment response in some patients.&#10;B) accounts for positive symptoms.&#10;C) accounts for cognitive dysfunction.&#10;D) explains drug withdrawal from antipsychotic medications.

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Question 43

The two neurotransmitters most implicated in the symptoms of schizophrenia are&#8230;&#10;A) serotonin and GABA.&#10;B) GABA and glutamate.&#10;C) dopamine and serotonin.&#10;D) dopamine and glutamate.

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Question 44

A drug that reduced the firing rate of mesolimbic dopamine neurons for a patient with schizophrenia would likely&#8230;&#10;A) reduce positive symptoms.&#10;B) have no effects.&#10;C) worsen symptoms.&#10;D) counteract the effects of antipsychotic drugs.

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Question 45

The effective clinical dose of an antipsychotic drug&#8230;&#10;A) correlates with its binding affinity for NMDA receptors.&#10;B) is not related to any known neurological actions.&#10;C) is typically as effective as placebo.&#10;D) correlates with its binding affinity for D&#8322; receptors.

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Question 46

How do extrapyramidal side effects occur from antipsychotic medications if dopamine neurons are overactivated in schizophrenia?&#10;A) After antipsychotics bind to D&#8322; receptors in the limbic system, most drug molecules are left for blocking receptors in the basal ganglia.&#10;B) Antipsychotics have a stronger affinity for dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia.&#10;C) Mesolimbic neurons are overactivated in schizophrenia, but nigrostriatal neurons are not.&#10;D) Inhibition of glutamate neurons in turn causes an inhibition of nigrostriatal neurons.

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Question 47

A Nobel Prize was not awarded for the discovery of the antipsychotic effects of chlorpromazine and the subsequent spark in psychopharmacology as a field likely due to&#8230;&#10;A) not having substantial impact on medicine.&#10;B) the fact that other antipsychotic drugs were already in development.&#10;C) heated disagreements about who was responsible for making the discovery.&#10;D) a failure to treat schizophrenia in all patients.

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Question 48

Haloperidol is a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) atypical antipsychotic drug.&#10;B) typical antipsychotic drug.&#10;C) novel antipsychotic drug.&#10;D) second-generation antipsychotic drug.

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Question 49

Tremor,muscle rigidity,and involuntary movements caused by antipsychotic drugs are called&#8230;&#10;A) Parkinson's disease.&#10;B) extrapyramidal side effects.&#10;C) motor inhibition syndrome.&#10;D) negative symptoms.

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Question 50

Inferred from the dopamine hypothesis and the actions of antipsychotic drugs,activation of ________ receptors likely leads to antipsychotic symptoms.&#10;A) 5-HT&#8322;A&#10;B) D&#8322;&#10;C) NMDA&#10;D) GABAA

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Question 51

The primary mechanism of action for a typical antipsychotic drug is&#8230;&#10;A) agonism of D&#8322; receptors.&#10;B) antagonism of D&#8322; receptors.&#10;C) antagonism of NMDA receptors.&#10;D) antagonism for 5-HT&#8322;A receptors.

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Question 52

The hypothesis stating that positive symptoms arise from excessive dopamine release in the limbic system is called the&#8230;&#10;A) dopamine hypothesis.&#10;B) hypofrontal hypothesis.&#10;C) glutamate hypothesis.&#10;D) serotonin-dopamine hypothesis.

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Question 53

Chlorpromazine is a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) typical antipsychotic drug.&#10;B) second-generation antipsychotic drug.&#10;C) atypical antipsychotic drug.&#10;D) novel antipsychotic drug.

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Question 54

The first antipsychotic drugs,including chlorpromazine and haloperidol,are known by all of the following except&#8230;&#10;A) first-generation antipsychotics.&#10;B) classical antipsychotics&#10;C) neuroleptics.&#10;D) early antipsychotics.

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Question 55

Giving a substantial dose of a dissociative anesthetic drug phencyclidine to a healthy human would exhibit&#8230;&#10;A) schizophrenia-like effects if also treated with an antipsychtoic drug.&#10;B) effects similar to the negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;C) effects similar to the negative symptoms but not the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;D) only cognitive impairment similar to that seen in schizophrenia.

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Question 56

For the most part,antipsychotic drugs must at least serve as antagonists for the _______ receptor to reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia.&#10;A) NMDA&#10;B) D&#8322;&#10;C) 5-HT&#8322;A&#10;D) GABAA

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Question 57

The glutamate hypothesis for schizophrenia states the symtoms of schizophrenia derive from&#8230;&#10;A) low levels of glutamate neurotransmission in the cerebral cortex.&#10;B) overrelease of dopamine from mesocortical dopamine neurons.&#10;C) excitoxicity in the limbic system.&#10;D) overactivation of circuits connecting the thalamus to the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex.

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Question 58

All of the following are found from typical antipsychotic drug treatment except&#8230;&#10;A) effectivenss for negative symptoms.&#10;B) effectiveness for positive symptoms.&#10;C) risk of extrapyramidal side effects.&#10;D) little efficacy for cognitive impairment.

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Question 59

If a new drug were developed that was effective for the positive symptoms of schizophrenia but produce significant extrapyramidal side effects,then the drug is likely a(n)&#8230;&#10;A) typical antipsychotic drug.&#10;B) benzodiazepine drug.&#10;C) atypical antipsychotic drug.&#10;D) third-generation antipsychotic drug.

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Question 60

If a substantial dose of a synthetic cathinone was given to a person without mental illness,what would likely happen?&#10;A) An antipsychotic drug would enhance the effects of cathinone.&#10;B) The person would become withdrawn, similar to negative symptoms in schizophrenia.&#10;C) The person would have effects similar to positive symptoms in schizophrenia.&#10;D) A person would permanently develop the features of schizophrenia.

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Question 61

Severe flu-like symptoms associated with autonomic nervous regularities from taking antipsychotic medication are referred to as&#8230;&#10;A) hyperprolactinemia.&#10;B) neuroleptic withdrawal syndrome.&#10;C) neuroleptic malignant syndrome.&#10;D) emesis.

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Question 62

The first recognized atypical antipsychotic drug was&#8230;&#10;A) olanzapine.&#10;B) risperidone.&#10;C) thioridazine.&#10;D) clozapine.

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Question 63

Third-generation antipsychotic drugs generally act as&#8230;&#10;A) D&#8322; fastoff drugs.&#10;B) inverse antagonists for 5-HT&#8322;A receptors.&#10;C) partial D&#8322; receptor agonists.&#10;D) partial agonists for 5-HT&#8322;A receptors.

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Question 64

The most utilized hypothesis for developing an atypical antipsychotic drug is&#8230;&#10;A) agonism for NMDA receptors in addition to antagonism of D&#8322; receptors.&#10;B) partial agonism of D&#8322; receptors.&#10;C) a preferential affinity for 5-HT&#8322;A receptors over D&#8322; receptors.&#10;D) binding to GABAA receptors in addition to D&#8322; receptors.

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