Question: Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include all of the following EXCEPT:

avolition.

alogia.

anhedonia.

delusions

Answer: delusions

Question: Research has shown that people being treated with some of the newer antipsychotic medications are less likely to drop out of treatment. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this fact?

Answer: Compared to the older antipsychotics, the newer drugs have less extreme and intrusive side- effects.

Question: In people with schizophrenia, the amount of gray matter in the temporal and frontal cortexes is

Answer: less than normal.

Question: The traditional drugs for treating schizophrenia

Answer: generally reduce only positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Question: Sensory experiences in the absence of any relevant stimulation from the environment are called

Answer: hallucinations.

Question: Schizophrenia most commonly appears in

Answer: adolescence or early adulthood

Question: “My thoughts get all jumbled up. I start thinking or talking about one thing but then by the time I get to the end of the sentence, I find myself talking about something else instead.” This is an example of which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer: loose associations

Question: An exaggerated sense of importance, power, knowledge, or identity is known as a

Answer: grandiose delusions.

Question: James is struggling with schizophrenia. He also finds it difficult to experience pleasure from activities that he enjoyed before his symptoms began. This is an example of

Answer: anhedonia

Question: Roger has a vacant stare. He answers questions in an apathetic, monotone voice, and shows no emotion, even when discussing such events as his mother’s death. Roger’s affect would be described as

Answer: flat or blunted.