Question

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about schizophrenia?

Not taking care of one's hygiene and avoiding social interaction are aspects of avolition, a negative symptom.

Schizophrenia may involve multiple personalities which attempt to reduce the patient's obsessions by engaging in the compulsions.

The risk of developing schizophrenia is the same for an identical twin of a person with schizophrenia as it is for a cousin of a person with schizophrenia.

Hallucinations in schizophrenia are most commonly olfactory or tactile.

2. Which of the following factors has been associated with a higher risk of schizophrenia?

Eating a poor diet and developing amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain

Having unusually small ventricles (fluid-filled cavities) in the brain

Having an older father

Being born during the months with the greatest amount of sunlight

3. Rishi, a high school student with schizophrenia, has enrolled in a longitudinal brain scanning experiment in which his brain structure is measured for 5 years to see how it might change over time. What are the researchers likely to see in Rishi's brain?  

Rishi's brain is likely to lose more gray matter in the cerebral cortex than the brains of teenagers with no schizophrenia.

Rishi's brain is likely to grow significantly in the temporal lobes because he hears voices with the auditory cortex.

Rishi's brain probably shows hyperfrontality which refers to excessive growth of the frontal lobes.

Rishi's brain is likely to lose significantly less gray matter in the cerebral cortex than the brains of teenagers with no schizophrenia. 4. Henry is in psychotherapy to work through his repressed childhood feelings about his mother and stepfather. The therapist asks Henry to freely talk about his feelings, and when Henry starts to address the therapist as if he was Henry's stepfather, the therapist remains neutral and does not make any judgments about how angrily Henry is speaking to him. The therapist's approach best reflects the primary goals of: cognitive therapy. systematic desensitization. client-centered therapy. psychoanalysis.

Answer 1

1)The last option-Hallucinations in schizophrenia are most commonly olfactory or tactile is true.

Explaination

Most number of schizophrenic patient suffers for the Tactile or Olfactory Hallucination. A Schizophrenic patient like to stay alone for all the time and often feels a tactile sensation when no one present in his or her room. So in comparing with other symptoms,this symptom is most common in a Schizophrenic patient. So we can conclude that this statement is absolutely true.

2) Factor B- Having unusually small ventricles (fluid-filled cavities) in the brain is associated with the higher risk of Schizophrenia.

Explaination

Because researches have found that a patient of Schizophrenia generally having smaller ventricles in the brain, this is included with the Hippocampus, Amygdala, accumbence and thalamus. This kind of brain's structure is unusual for a mentally healthy person, but it is very much common in a schizophrenic patient.

3) Correct answer is option 1- Rishi's brain is likely to lose more gray matter in the cerebral cortex than the brains of teenagers with no schizophrenia.

Explaination

The reseachers likely to see the level of gray matter in the Rishi's brain. Because a patient with Schizophrenia has low level of gray matter rather than a teenager with no schizophrenia. The gray matter controls the sensation and perception in a person. Not only that gray matter also important for our memory, speech, emotions and feelings. Some significant evidance stated that,a patient with schizophrenia has low level of gray matter in his cerebral Cortex.

So we can conclude that reseachers likely to see Rishi's brain structure to assume the gray matter level.

4) The correct answer is option 4- Psychoanalysis

Explaination

The primary goal of psychoanalysis is discovering someome's repressed feeling and thoughts. The Psychoanalysis therapy was conceptualized by the Sigmund Freud. This therapy helps to discover the hidden and repressed feeling of someone by some psychoanalytic techniques such as

• Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Free association Test
• Dream analysis
• Resistance

A therapist can know the unwanted and repressed feeling by applying psychoanalysis therapy. So we can conclude that here therapist's approach best reflects the primary goal of Psychoanalysis.