Because there is considerable overlap among the types of schizophrenia, and because patterns of behavior shift over time, many patients are simply classified as suffering from______schizophrenia.

Related Mcqs:

1. If a person suffering from schizophrenia has an identical twin that twin

   A. Will have a 46 percent chance of becoming schizophrenic
   B. Will be no more likely than anyone else to become schizophrenic
   C. is almost sure to become schizophrenic
   D. is also likely to have more than one personality

2. The prescription drug Thorazine used to treat persons with schizophrenia may cause side effects, one of them called tardive dyskinesia. What might a person suffering from this side effect display?

   A. involuntary movements of tongue and face
   B. no movement at all
   C. slow movements
   D. clapping of the hands repeatedly

3. Which movie featured a math genius suffering from schizophrenia, and won an Oscar for best Picture?

   A. Calculus the A calculus
   B. American Beauty
   C. A beautiful mind
   D. Deceitfulness

4. What is an example of a positive symptom in patients with schizophrenia?

   A. Impaired social skills
   B. Affective flattening (lack of expression or emotion)
   C. Alogia (loss of speech)
   D. Hallucinations

5. Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?

   A. Ativan
   B. Xanax
   C. Thorazine
   D. lithium

6. Two friends quarreled over possession of a single orange without realizing that one of them simply wanted orange juice and the other simply wanted to orange peel to make a cake. This classic episode best illustrates the pitfalls of:

   A. a win- lose orientation
   B. the fundamental attribution error
   C. the mere exposure effect
   D. deindividuation

7. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

8. Significant alternation over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and value is called:

   A. Social mobility
   B. Social change
   C. Control theory
   D. None of these

9. The habitual behavior patterns and understandings acquired during______years are aimed at serving the individual effectively in his life activities and relationships:

   A. Learning
   B. Past
   C. Coming
   D. Developing

10. Early research on the patterns of behavior observed in people during epileptic seizures advanced the idea that:

    A. Seizure were caused by chemical discharges in the brain
    B. The cortex can be surgically removed to reduce seizures
    C. Brain regions have highly specialized functions
    D. (b) and (c)