Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below 

 

Chapter 13: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

 

Multiple-Choice Questions

 

13.1-1. Psychosis is a striking and essential feature of schizophrenia. Psychosis means

1. a tendency to be unpredictably violent.
2. a significant loss of contact with reality.
3. an inability to know right from wrong.
4. an abrupt shift in personality from one pattern to another.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 13.1-1

Page Ref: 444

Topic: Schizophrenia

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. a significant loss of contact with reality.

 

13.1-2. Schizophrenia occurs in about ________ of the general population.

1. 1 out of 1,000
2. 1 out of 100
3. 1 out of 10
4. 1 out of 10,000

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 13.1-2

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Epidemiology

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. 1 out of 100

 

13.1-3. Which of the following accounts for the belief that schizophrenia is becoming more common in males than females?

1. Males are more likely to hallucinate than females so may be overdiagnosed.
2. Men are more likely to seek treatment.
3. Females with schizophrenia have less severe symptoms so may be misdiagnosed.
4. Women respond better to treatment than men.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 13.1-3

Page Ref: 446

Topic: Schizophrenia/Epidemiology

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: c. Females with schizophrenia have less severe symptoms so may be misdiagnosed.

 

13.1-4. Which of the following people has the highest risk of developing schizophrenia?

1. A person who came from New Guinea
2. Someone who was physically abused as a child
3. A person whose father was over 50 when he/she was born
4. Someone who has a history of depression

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 13.1-4

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Epidemiology

Skill: Applied

Answer: c. A person whose father was over 50 when he/she was born

 

13.1-5. The majority of cases of schizophrenia begin in

1. late adulthood or old age.
2. late adolescence or early adulthood.
3. late childhood or early adolescence.
4. there is no age where the majority of cases begin.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 13.1-5

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Epidemiology

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. late adolescence or early adulthood.

 

13.1-6. The term “demence precoce” was used by Benedict Morel to describe schizophrenia and to also explain the

1. lack of brain damage that characterizes the brain of most schizophrenics.
2. effectiveness of psychological treatments for schizophrenia.
3. transient nature of most schizophrenias.
4. difference between schizophrenia and dementias of old age.

Difficulty: 3

Question ID: 13.1-6

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Origins of the Schizophrenia Construct

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: d. difference between schizophrenia and dementias of old age.

 

13.1-7. One disadvantage of early descriptions of schiziophrenia, such as  Kraepelin’s use of the term “dementia praecox,” is that

1. they assumed that what we call schizophrenia only occurred in elderly patients.
2. they were actually describing Alzheimer’s dementia, not schizophrenia.
3. they did not distinguish between the varying types of schizophrenia that we know about today.
4. they assumed the intellectual functioning of patients remained constant even as their bodies aged.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 13.1-7

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Origins of the Schizophrenia Construct

Skill: Factual

Answer: c. they did not distinguish between the varying types of schizophrenia that we know about today.

 

13.1-8. When Bleuler coined the term “schizophrenia,” the kind of split he believed was central to the disorder was

1. a division of personality within the person.
2. a divergence between the person’s chronological age and his or her intellectual performance.
3. an inability to make an intimate connection with other people.
4. a break with reality.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 13.1-8

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Origins of the Schizophrenia Construct

Skill: Factual

Answer: d. a break with reality.

 

13.1-9. Kraepelin used the term “praecox” to convey that schizophrenia typically develops early in life. The actual age of onset of the condition

1. typically is during the early teenage years.
2. typically is during the mid-twenties.
3. typically is during the mid-thirties.
4. typically is during the mid-forties.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 13.1-9

Page Ref: 445

Topic: Schizophrenia/Epidemiology

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: b. typically is during the mid-twenties.

 

13.1-10. Joe has a delusional belief. When people argue with him,

1. he admits he could be wrong.
2. he only admits he is wrong after being shown more proof than most people would need.
3. he doesn’t admit he is wrong to other people, but he admits it to himself.
4. he doesn’t admit he could be wrong, no matter what proof he is shown.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 13.1-10

Page Ref: 446

Topic: Clinical Picture/Delusions

Skill: Applied

Answer: d. he doesn’t admit he could be wrong, no matter what proof he is shown.

 

13.1-11. Delusions are

1. perceptions with no basis in reality.
2. only seen in schizophrenia.
3. necessary for a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
4. disturbances in the content of thought.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 13.1-11

Page Ref: 447

Topic: Clinical Picture/Delusions

Skill: Factual

Answer: d. disturbances in the content of thought.