PSYC 2300 (Exam 3) questions with
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
What percent of women who experience postpartum depression have a chance of developing it
again with a subsequent birth? What is the name of the disorder Andrea Yates had? - ANS
✔✔25-50%
Post-partum psychotic depression.
What is psychosis? What is impaired/disturbed and what are some symptoms? How can this be
caused? Where do most cases appear? - ANS ✔✔A state defined by a loss of contact with
reality.
The ability to perceive and respond to the environment is significantly disturbed; functioning is
impaired.
Symptoms may include hallucinations (false sensory perceptions) and/or delusions (false
beliefs).
May be substance-induced or caused by brain injury/damage, but most appears in the form of
schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations? - ANS ✔✔false sensory perceptions
What are delusions? - ANS ✔✔false beliefs
Fill in the following blanks:
,Schizophrenia affects approximately ___ in ______ people in the world. UConn's total fall 2019
student enrollment: 32,333. That would mean we have about 300 people. The financial costs
are ________________. Sufferers have an increased risk of ____________ (often fatal). The
overall US cost of schizophrenia was estimated to be 62.7 ____________________. This could
buy _____ more fighter jets with this money. - ANS ✔✔1
100
enormous
suicide
billion
515
How do rates of schizophrenia diagnoses compare among men and women? - ANS ✔✔Equal
numbers of men and women are diagnosed.
True or false:
Schizophrenia produces many clinical pictures. The symptoms, triggers, and courses of
schizophrenia vary greatly (Heterogeneity). Schizophrenia is possibly a group of distinct
disorders that share common features. - ANS ✔✔True
What is heterogeneity? - ANS ✔✔Multiple clinical pictures within a single disorder.
,Is there a correlation between cannabis use and schizophrenia? What is the problem with this? -
ANS ✔✔Yes
There is no directionality to this relationship/no causality (chicken and egg problem)
What are the three groups of categories for schizophrenia? - ANS ✔✔Positive symptoms (with
psychomotor symptoms)
Negative symptoms
Cognitive deficits
Fill in the following blanks regarding positive symptoms of schizophrenia:
These ________ __________ are bizarre additions to a person's behavior. They include
______________ (faulty interpretations of reality) such as being controlled by others,
persecution, grandeur, demigod, TV being addressed to them. Also include disordered
____________ and ______________ which may include loose associations or
_______________, neologisms (made up ___________), perseverations, and __________. -
ANS ✔✔pathological excesses
delusions
thinking
speech
derailments
, words
clang
True or false:
·Disordered thinking and speech include:
·Loose associations (derailment):
Ø"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; I also like to dance, draw, and watch TV."
·Neologisms (made-up words):
Ø"It is an amorition law"
·Perseveration
ØPatients repeat their words and statements again and again
·Clang (rhymes):
ØHow are you? "Well, hell, it's well to tell"
ØHow's the weather? "So hot, you know it runs on a cot" - ANS ✔✔True
True or false:
·Positive symptoms
·Positive symptoms include:
1.Delusions - faulty interpretations of reality
2.Disordered thinking and speech
3.Heightened perceptions
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
What percent of women who experience postpartum depression have a chance of developing it
again with a subsequent birth? What is the name of the disorder Andrea Yates had? - ANS
✔✔25-50%
Post-partum psychotic depression.
What is psychosis? What is impaired/disturbed and what are some symptoms? How can this be
caused? Where do most cases appear? - ANS ✔✔A state defined by a loss of contact with
reality.
The ability to perceive and respond to the environment is significantly disturbed; functioning is
impaired.
Symptoms may include hallucinations (false sensory perceptions) and/or delusions (false
beliefs).
May be substance-induced or caused by brain injury/damage, but most appears in the form of
schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations? - ANS ✔✔false sensory perceptions
What are delusions? - ANS ✔✔false beliefs
Fill in the following blanks:
,Schizophrenia affects approximately ___ in ______ people in the world. UConn's total fall 2019
student enrollment: 32,333. That would mean we have about 300 people. The financial costs
are ________________. Sufferers have an increased risk of ____________ (often fatal). The
overall US cost of schizophrenia was estimated to be 62.7 ____________________. This could
buy _____ more fighter jets with this money. - ANS ✔✔1
100
enormous
suicide
billion
515
How do rates of schizophrenia diagnoses compare among men and women? - ANS ✔✔Equal
numbers of men and women are diagnosed.
True or false:
Schizophrenia produces many clinical pictures. The symptoms, triggers, and courses of
schizophrenia vary greatly (Heterogeneity). Schizophrenia is possibly a group of distinct
disorders that share common features. - ANS ✔✔True
What is heterogeneity? - ANS ✔✔Multiple clinical pictures within a single disorder.
,Is there a correlation between cannabis use and schizophrenia? What is the problem with this? -
ANS ✔✔Yes
There is no directionality to this relationship/no causality (chicken and egg problem)
What are the three groups of categories for schizophrenia? - ANS ✔✔Positive symptoms (with
psychomotor symptoms)
Negative symptoms
Cognitive deficits
Fill in the following blanks regarding positive symptoms of schizophrenia:
These ________ __________ are bizarre additions to a person's behavior. They include
______________ (faulty interpretations of reality) such as being controlled by others,
persecution, grandeur, demigod, TV being addressed to them. Also include disordered
____________ and ______________ which may include loose associations or
_______________, neologisms (made up ___________), perseverations, and __________. -
ANS ✔✔pathological excesses
delusions
thinking
speech
derailments
, words
clang
True or false:
·Disordered thinking and speech include:
·Loose associations (derailment):
Ø"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; I also like to dance, draw, and watch TV."
·Neologisms (made-up words):
Ø"It is an amorition law"
·Perseveration
ØPatients repeat their words and statements again and again
·Clang (rhymes):
ØHow are you? "Well, hell, it's well to tell"
ØHow's the weather? "So hot, you know it runs on a cot" - ANS ✔✔True
True or false:
·Positive symptoms
·Positive symptoms include:
1.Delusions - faulty interpretations of reality
2.Disordered thinking and speech
3.Heightened perceptions
