A clinical psychologist is interested in minimizing the delusions in a patient with schizophrenia. Amethod for doing this involves ____.
a. weakening and then directly challenging the delusions
b. relaxation training and response prevention
c. exaggeration and humor, followed by aversive conditioning
d. agreeing with the delusional ideas until they seem absurd
Question 2Males with fragile X syndrome are at higher risk of ____ than are members of the general population.
a. communication difficulties c. post-traumatic stress disorder
b. anxiety disorder d. low motivation
Question 3Polly thinks that her father and mother have been replaced by two people who are simply acting as her father and mother. She believes that someone found people who look exactly like her parents and exchanged them. Polly's disorder, whichis rare, is called ____.
a. Capgrassyndrome c. delusions of thought broadcasting
b. dementia praecox d. delusions of grandeur
Question 4Children with this condition unusually demonstrate facial abnormalities, central nervous system dysfunction, and altered brain development. They also experience difficulty with attention, learning, memory, regulation of emotions, and executive functioning. Maternal alcohol use during pregnancy causes this form of intellectual disability, which is estimated to occur in less than 1 of live births in the United States. What is the condition?
a. Down syndrome
b. PKU
c. fragile X
d. FAS
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