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

Related Mcqs:

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

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

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. Migraine headaches are most closely linked with an:

   A. oversupply of GABA
   B. undersupply of serotonin
   C. undersupply of norepinephrine
   D. oversupply of glutamate

4. Auditory sensations are transformed from ‘air waves’ to nerve impulses by the _________________?

   A. vestibular system
   B. pinna
   C. round window
   D. cochlea

5. One of the following is reduced in human beings and contains auditory relay center that controls reflex movements of eyes:

   A. Forebrain
   B. Midbrain
   C. Hind brain
   D. Amygdala

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

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

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

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

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

   A. somatoform disorders
   B. anxiety disorders
   C. psychotic disorders
   D. personality disorders

9. 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

10. Jeremy is sitting quietly when the muscles in his left leg begin to “twitch” this activation of movement in his voluntary muscles is most likely due to the release of the neurotransmitter:

    A. epinephrine
    B. dopamine
    C. norepinephrine
    D. acetylcholine