Question 1

Patients with schizophrenia who receive ________ are less likely to relapse or be readmitted to the hospital than those receiving the standard treatment only.

Accepted Answer

seems to be very effective when combined with medication

Question 2

Which type of training has an emphasis on helping patients deal with their neurocognitive deficits?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive remediation training

Question 3

One aspect of family environment that has been found to be important in schizophrenia is the level of expressed emotion. Which of the following is not one of the expressed emotions found to be predictive of relapse?

Accepted Answer

Humor

Question 4

Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter that researchers suspect might be involved in schizophrenia because ________

Accepted Answer

alterations in glutamate levels can produce schizophrenic-like symptoms in normal subjects

Question 5

Which of the following statements about antipsychotic medications is true?

Accepted Answer

The earlier patients receive these medications, the better they tend to do over the longer term

Question 6

Cognitive-behavioral treatment for people with schizophrenia tries to help them ________

Accepted Answer

question their delusions to help reduce their intensity

Question 7

The lifetime risk for schizophrenia is just under __________ percent.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The lifetime risk for schizophrenia is just...

Question 8

Extrapyramidal side effects are ________

Accepted Answer

involuntary movements that result mainly from taking first-generation antipsychotic drugs

Question 9

Aberrant salience means that ________

Accepted Answer

dysregulated dopamine can cause people with schizophrenia to pay too much attention to stimuli that are not actually important

Question 10

Which of the following is true about second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

They are no more effective than first generation antipsychotics

Question 11

What is a stressor that has been found to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Being a recent immigrant

Question 12

A favorable outcome for someone with schizophrenia would be recovery, which for someone with this disorder would consist of ________

Accepted Answer

being able to function with the help of medication and therapy

Question 13

Which of the following is an environmental influence from the family that can influence a susceptible person's tendency to develop schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Schizophrenogenic sibling

Question 14

Social-skills training for people with schizophrenia ________

Accepted Answer

tries to help people gain the skills they need for daily living outside the hospital

Question 15

There is a new trend to focus on dopamine receptor sensitivity rather than on dopamine itself because ________

Accepted Answer

there is no strong evidence that people with schizophrenia have too much dopamine

Question 16

______________are false beliefs that are firmly held despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ______________are false beliefs that are firmly held...

Question 17

________ is an anesthetic that is safe for use in animals and children but not in adults because it can cause schizophrenia-like positive and negative symptoms.

Accepted Answer

Ketamine

Question 18

What is a methodological flaw in studies of cannabis use and schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

People in the early stages of psychosis may just be more inclined to try drugs

Question 19

A rigorous study conducted by the Swedish army showed that young men who use cannabis by age 18 are _____ times more likely to develop schizophrenia than those who don't.

Accepted Answer

6

Question 20

First-generation antipsychotics ________

Accepted Answer

work by blocking dopamine receptors

Quiz 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders