Quiz 6

Psychosis means:

• split personality
• loss of contact with reality
• brain seizures
• drug abuse

The phrase split mind is to _____ as the phrase split personality is to _____.

• delusions; hallucinations
• disordered thinking; disordered behavior
• dissociative identity disorder; schizophrenia
• schizophrenia; dissociative identity disorder

Anna shows no emotions when people tell her happy or sad stories and complains of hearing voices in her head telling her that the TV is spying on her. At times, she remains motionless in her chair for hours. When she does get out of her chair, she poses like the statue in the town square. Which of these represents a positive symptom of schizophrenia?

• showing no emotions
• hearing voices in her head
• remaining motionless
• posing like a statue

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are to _____, as negative symptoms are to _____.

• symptoms that can easily be treated; symptoms that are difficult to treat

• features that people consider to be good; features that people consider to be bad

• the presence of inappropriate behaviors; the absence of appropriate behaviors

• excess feelings of happiness and elation; excess feelings of sadness and depression

A strange false belief that is firmly held despite evidence to the contrary is called a:

• hallucination
• maladaptive attitude.
• loss of volition
• delusion

Antonio believes that the anchor on the evening television news is speaking directly and personally to him. He then decides to go to the television studio to talk to the anchor. Antonio is suffering from:

• delusions of reference
• delusions of persecution
• delusions of grandeur.
• delusions of control.

A person with schizophrenia who says, "I have 'triscatitis' because the angular shape of my foreffit is diskiltered," is experiencing:

• loose associations.
• neologisms
• perseveration
• clang

Research with those experiencing auditory hallucinations has NOT demonstrated:

• increased blood flow in Broca's area.
• increased activity in the brain's hearing center.
• movement of the oval window of the cochlea
• increased activity near the brain's surface

What was the dominant way of treating people with schizophrenia during the first half of the twentieth century?

• institutionalization
• outpatient services
• individual psychotherapy
• treatment with neuroleptic drugs

It was thought that lobotomies could effectively treat the symptoms of schizophrenia and other disorders because

• animal studies showed that this procedure calmed animals that were easily agitated
• cutting the nerve pathways that produce abnormal thinking should prevent such thinking from occurring
• therapists were desperate to try anything that might help those with the most severe symptoms
• they could be performed quickly and easily with almost no side effects