Three year old Shawn ate lead paint which was chipping off the walls in an older home. Consequently, he developed a psychosis based on brain damage due to lead poisoning. Shawn’s psychosis would be called a(n):

Related Mcqs:

1. While finger painting, Iqbal mixed yellow paint and blue paint and ended up with green, an example of:

   A. Subtractive color mixing
   B. Divisive color mixing
   C. Trichromatic theory
   D. Multiplicative color mixing

2. A psychosis arising from an advanced stage of syphilis, in which the disease attacks brain cells, is called:

   A. Korsakoff syndrome
   B. delirium tremens
   C. schizotypical psychosis
   D. general paresis

3. Dr. Jamshed wants to see if person’s IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group i is made up of 10 years old, and Group III of 25 years old. Dr. Jamshed tests all three groups of their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called:

   A. longitudinal study
   B. more information is needed to determine the design of the experiment
   C. Gesell’s dome
   D. cross sectional study

4. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?

   A. right cerebral hemisphere
   B. left cerebral hemisphere
   C. regular formation
   D. corpus collosum

5. Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. None

6. The dopamine-psychosis link is based on the observation that:

   A. low dopamine levels of activity in the brain seem to produce psychotic symptoms
   B. there are high level of dopamine activity in the brains of psychotic people
   C. there are high levels of amphetamine activity in the brains of psychotic people
   D. dopamine interacts with serotonin creating psychosis

7. Although Shawn felt terribly depressed when he began psychotherapy, he was much happier by the time he had completed therapy. I would be reasonable to attribute some of his improvement to:

   A. therapeutic touch.
   B. regression toward the mean
   C. the double – blind technique
   D. transference

8. Who was the first (1686) to describe a manic – depressive psychosis, which he called ‘maniaco – melancholicus’?

   A. Bonet
   B. Albrecht
   C. Jamison
   D. Redfield

9. The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?

   A. regeneration
   B. accommodation
   C. aphasia
   D. plasticity

10. The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:

    A. tomography
    B. hemispherectomy
    C. phrenology
    D. plasticity