Question

A woman is prescribed a medication to lower her cholesterol and high blood pressure. Shortly after starting the medication, the woman begins to experience delusions and hallucinations. The woman discontinues the medication and soon thereafter the delusions and hallucinations go away. What diagnosis best describes the woman’s experience?

A.

Brief psychotic disorder.

B.

Schizophrenaform disorder.

C.

Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition.

D.

Substance induce psychotic disorder.

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QUESTION 3

Which item in the following list is not an example of a ‘positive’ symptom of schizophrenia?

A.

Delusions.

B.

Hallucinations.

C.

Restricted movement.

D.

Disorganized speech

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QUESTION 4

Tim Crow’s (1985) distinction between Type I and Type II schizophrenia suggests that Type I schizophrenia tends to involve a more rapid onset and is associated with a better long-term prognosis compared to Type II schizophrenia. Crow’s theory also suggests that…

A.

Type I schizophrenia is likely to respond well to medication treatments.

B.

Type I schizophrenia is not likely to respond well to medication treatments.

C.

Type I schizophrenia is likely to involve primarily negative symptoms.

D.

Type I schizophrenia is more likely to occur in urban areas.

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QUESTION 5

Jim is a patient in residential treatment who has been diagnosed with disorganized schizophrenia. Jim often becomes excited and agitated when he speaks during group therapy. His words tend to become jumbled and he jumps from subject to subject in an incoherent fashion. This kind of severely disorganized speech is often referred to as what?

A.

Functional aphasia.

B.

Primary mutism.

C.

Word salad.

D.

Avolition.

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Answer 1

Q1(?) . D. Substance induced psychotic disorder (the symptoms started immediately after taking medicine and subsided on withdrawal of medication.

Q3 . Positive symptoms are those that are in excess or a distortion of normal functions.Most of the literature consider delusions, hallucinations, catatonic behavior (which is esentially manifested in restricted movement) and disorganized speech as positive symptoms of schizophrenia. However disorganized speech can be indicative of cognitive symptoms since associated thought disorder (like derailment , loosening of associations, incoherent speech, tangentiality etc) are elicited through that and hence considered as a cognitive symptom. However poverty of speech is considered a negative symptom (it also indicative of cognitive disorder like thought blocking or slowing of thought ) .

Q4. A. Type I schizophrenia is likely to respond well to medications (this type exclusively of positive symptoms and with rapid onset)

Q5. C. Word salad (name due to the fact that the words or phrases are linked unintelligibly)