Psychosis Exam Questions with 100%
Correct Answers
What is psychosis? Correct Answer loss of contact with reality
- ability to perceive and respond to the environment is disturbed/impaired
- symptoms may include hallucinations and/or delusions (false beliefs)
What causes psychosis? Correct Answer substance-induced
Brain-injury
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia and SES Correct Answer Schizophrenia appears in all socioeconomic
groups but is found more frequently in lower levels
- some theorists argue that the stress of poverty causes the disorder
- others propose the disorder causes victims from higher social levels to fall and remain
and lower levels "downward drift" theory
Downward drift theory Correct Answer schizophrenia causes its sufferers to fall from a
higher to a lower socioeconomic level or to remain poor because they are unable to
function effectively
Men vs women and schizophrenia Correct Answer equal numbers of men and women
are diagnosed
In men, symptoms begin earlier and are more severe
Rates of schizophrenia by marital status Correct Answer 3% divorced or separated
people
2% of single people
1% married people
It is unclear whether marital problems cause schizophrenia or are as a result
Rates of schizophrenia by ethnicity and race Correct Answer about 2% of African
Americans are diagnosed compared with 1.4% of caucasians
- however, african americans are much more likely to be poor and to experience marital
separation
- when controlling for these factors, rates of schizophrenia are equal for the two racial
groups
What is schizophrenia? Correct Answer Severe and debilitating brain and behaviour
disorder affecting how one thinks, feels, and acts
, Trouble distinguishing reality from fantasy, expressing and managing normal emotions
and making decisions
Schizophrenia produces many "clinical pictures"
What can schizophrenic symptoms be categorised as? Correct Answer positive
symptoms
Negative symptoms
Psychomotor symptoms
Positive symptoms Correct Answer delusions
Disordered thinking and speech (neologism, clang, loose associations)
Heightened perceptions (feel that they are being flooded by sights and sounds)
Hallucinations (usually involving running commentary, spoken directly to them, involve
other senses too)
Inappropriate affect
What are:
Loose associations
Neologisms
Clangs Correct Answer "the problem is insects. My brother used to collect insects. He's
now a man 5 foot 10 inches. You know, 10 is my favorite number."
"This desk is a cramstile" He's an easterhorned head"
"Well, hell it's well to tell"
"So hot, you know it runs on a cot"
Negative symptoms schizophrenia Correct Answer *alogia* (poverty of speech, cannot
talk in coherent manner, long pauses before answer, reduction in quantity, slow speech)
*Blunted and flat affect*
- avoidance of eye contact
- immobile expressionless face
- lack of emotion when discussing emotional material
- apathetic and uninterested
- monotonous voice, low and difficult to hear
*Loss of motivation*
- feeling drained of energy and interest in normal goals
- inability to start or follow through a course of action
Correct Answers
What is psychosis? Correct Answer loss of contact with reality
- ability to perceive and respond to the environment is disturbed/impaired
- symptoms may include hallucinations and/or delusions (false beliefs)
What causes psychosis? Correct Answer substance-induced
Brain-injury
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia and SES Correct Answer Schizophrenia appears in all socioeconomic
groups but is found more frequently in lower levels
- some theorists argue that the stress of poverty causes the disorder
- others propose the disorder causes victims from higher social levels to fall and remain
and lower levels "downward drift" theory
Downward drift theory Correct Answer schizophrenia causes its sufferers to fall from a
higher to a lower socioeconomic level or to remain poor because they are unable to
function effectively
Men vs women and schizophrenia Correct Answer equal numbers of men and women
are diagnosed
In men, symptoms begin earlier and are more severe
Rates of schizophrenia by marital status Correct Answer 3% divorced or separated
people
2% of single people
1% married people
It is unclear whether marital problems cause schizophrenia or are as a result
Rates of schizophrenia by ethnicity and race Correct Answer about 2% of African
Americans are diagnosed compared with 1.4% of caucasians
- however, african americans are much more likely to be poor and to experience marital
separation
- when controlling for these factors, rates of schizophrenia are equal for the two racial
groups
What is schizophrenia? Correct Answer Severe and debilitating brain and behaviour
disorder affecting how one thinks, feels, and acts
, Trouble distinguishing reality from fantasy, expressing and managing normal emotions
and making decisions
Schizophrenia produces many "clinical pictures"
What can schizophrenic symptoms be categorised as? Correct Answer positive
symptoms
Negative symptoms
Psychomotor symptoms
Positive symptoms Correct Answer delusions
Disordered thinking and speech (neologism, clang, loose associations)
Heightened perceptions (feel that they are being flooded by sights and sounds)
Hallucinations (usually involving running commentary, spoken directly to them, involve
other senses too)
Inappropriate affect
What are:
Loose associations
Neologisms
Clangs Correct Answer "the problem is insects. My brother used to collect insects. He's
now a man 5 foot 10 inches. You know, 10 is my favorite number."
"This desk is a cramstile" He's an easterhorned head"
"Well, hell it's well to tell"
"So hot, you know it runs on a cot"
Negative symptoms schizophrenia Correct Answer *alogia* (poverty of speech, cannot
talk in coherent manner, long pauses before answer, reduction in quantity, slow speech)
*Blunted and flat affect*
- avoidance of eye contact
- immobile expressionless face
- lack of emotion when discussing emotional material
- apathetic and uninterested
- monotonous voice, low and difficult to hear
*Loss of motivation*
- feeling drained of energy and interest in normal goals
- inability to start or follow through a course of action
