PSYCHOPATHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
essential feature of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -psychosis: loss of contact
with reality
DSM-5 types of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Schizophrenia
Other psychotic disorders:
Delusional disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Schizophreniform disorder
Brief psychotic disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Positive symptoms of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Additions to normal
behavior and experience (pathological excesses)
Delusions:
Persecution
Reference
Grandeur
Control
Hallucinations
Inappropriate heightened affect
negative symptoms of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Absence or deficit of
normal behaviors (pathological deficits)
Absent affect (blunted or flat)
Avolition (loss of drive)
Alogia (poverty of speech)
Anhedonia (loss of pleasure)
Asocial (social withdrawal)
(5 a's)
Disorganized speech and behavior of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Thought
disorder
Loose associations
Neologisms
Perseveration
Clang
Abnormal or odd motor movements and gestures
Catatonia
, Posturing, rigidity, and excitement
Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Severe mental disorder characterized by the
breakdown of integrated personality emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning
Withdrawal from reality
Schizophrenia: DSM-5 DIAGNOSIS - Correct Answers -Two or more symptoms during
a
1 month period of time (one must include 1-3)
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Disorganized or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms
Social/occupational dysfunction (work, interpersonal relations, or self-care)
Continuous signs of disturbance for at least
6 months
At least one month of active phase symptoms (usually negative symptoms or delusions
may be present alone during residual periods)
Type 1 Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Dominated by positive symptoms and
disorganized behavior
Involve biochemical abnormalities
Type II Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Dominated by negative symptoms
Involve structural abnormalities
Other psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Brief psychotic disorder
Psychotic symptomatology (schizophrenia like) lasting less than 1 month
Schizophreniform disorder
Psychotic symptomatology (schizophrenia like) lasting between 1 and 6 months
Schizoaffective disorder
Marked symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorder
Delusional disorder - Correct Answers -Person adopts delusions that are not due to
schizophrenia (removal of the nonbizarre criteria, now there is a "With bizarre content"
specifier)
Five main subtypes
Erotomanic
Grandiose
Jealous
Persecutory
Somatic
Biological Causal Factors in Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Genetic influences
Twin studies
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
essential feature of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -psychosis: loss of contact
with reality
DSM-5 types of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Schizophrenia
Other psychotic disorders:
Delusional disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Schizophreniform disorder
Brief psychotic disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Positive symptoms of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Additions to normal
behavior and experience (pathological excesses)
Delusions:
Persecution
Reference
Grandeur
Control
Hallucinations
Inappropriate heightened affect
negative symptoms of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Absence or deficit of
normal behaviors (pathological deficits)
Absent affect (blunted or flat)
Avolition (loss of drive)
Alogia (poverty of speech)
Anhedonia (loss of pleasure)
Asocial (social withdrawal)
(5 a's)
Disorganized speech and behavior of psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Thought
disorder
Loose associations
Neologisms
Perseveration
Clang
Abnormal or odd motor movements and gestures
Catatonia
, Posturing, rigidity, and excitement
Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Severe mental disorder characterized by the
breakdown of integrated personality emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning
Withdrawal from reality
Schizophrenia: DSM-5 DIAGNOSIS - Correct Answers -Two or more symptoms during
a
1 month period of time (one must include 1-3)
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Disorganized or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms
Social/occupational dysfunction (work, interpersonal relations, or self-care)
Continuous signs of disturbance for at least
6 months
At least one month of active phase symptoms (usually negative symptoms or delusions
may be present alone during residual periods)
Type 1 Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Dominated by positive symptoms and
disorganized behavior
Involve biochemical abnormalities
Type II Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Dominated by negative symptoms
Involve structural abnormalities
Other psychotic disorders - Correct Answers -Brief psychotic disorder
Psychotic symptomatology (schizophrenia like) lasting less than 1 month
Schizophreniform disorder
Psychotic symptomatology (schizophrenia like) lasting between 1 and 6 months
Schizoaffective disorder
Marked symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorder
Delusional disorder - Correct Answers -Person adopts delusions that are not due to
schizophrenia (removal of the nonbizarre criteria, now there is a "With bizarre content"
specifier)
Five main subtypes
Erotomanic
Grandiose
Jealous
Persecutory
Somatic
Biological Causal Factors in Schizophrenia - Correct Answers -Genetic influences
Twin studies
