Retreat from reality by hallucinations and delusions and by social withdrawal typically characterizes:

Related Mcqs:

1. Severe depression accompanied by hallucinations and delusions are symptoms of which of these?

   A. Psychotic depression
   B. Major depression
   C. Dysthymia
   D. Bipolar disorder

2. Hallucinations are different from illusions in that hallucinations are:

   A. Only found in hearing
   B. Non-shared perceptual distortions
   C. Shared by most people
   D. Only found in vision

3. _______schizophrenia usually involves delusions of persecution and grandeur.

   A. Catatonic
   B. Disorganized
   C. Paranoid
   D. Undifferentiated

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

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

5. Which of the senses foes the majority of hallucinations occur in?

   A. sight
   B. smell
   C. hearing
   D. taste

6. An experimenter conducts an experiments on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. He declares the results to be “statistically significant,’ which usually means that:

   A. even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between experimental and control groups
   B. the results have important implications for theory or practice
   C. differences between experimental and control group of this size occur by chance only 5 times out of 100 (or less)
   D. differences between experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone

7. The experience of auditory hallucinations by people with schizophrenia is most closely linked with the activation of areas in their:

   A. frontal lobes
   B. motor cortex
   C. hypothalamus
   D. temporal lobes

8. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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

9. Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?

   A. Depressive
   B. Over- controlled repressors
   C. Paranoid- aggression
   D. Homicidal protest

10. Virtual reality exposure therapy is most likely to prove effective in the treatment of:

    A. hallucinations
    B. depression
    C. personality disorders
    D. phobias