An elementary school principal wants to know the best predictors of juvenile delinquency and dropping
out of school in high school so she can provide preventive interventions. Your best advice is:
A) Look for kids who are very popular because they are class clowns.
B) The best predictor is aggression toward peers which leads to peer rejection.
C) There is no way to predict juvenile delinquency as early as elementary school.
D) Silent, depressed, loners tend to be drop-outs because they are often depressed.
Question 2Betty was admitted to the hospital in a state of withdrawal from alcohol. She was diagnosed with alcohol
withdrawal delirium (formerly known as delirium tremens). She most likely showed which of the
following behaviors?
A) prolonged sleep followed by convulsions and heart failure
B) delusions of grandeur and an inability to get to sleep
C) severe memory deficit and the tendency to falsify reporting events (confabulation)
D) disorientation for time and place and vivid hallucinations
Question 3In genetic studies, a proband or index case is someone who
A) shows signs of the disorder of interest.
B) is related to someone with the disorder of interest.
C) has the disorder of interest.
D) shares at least 25 of their genes with an affected subject.
Question 4Studies of the offspring of nonschizophrenic co-twins from discordant twin pairs suggest that
A) genetic factors cause schizophrenia, while environmental factors are essentially unimportant.
B) the heritability of schizophrenia involves the transmission of a single dominant gene.
C) a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia may remain unexpressed in some individuals unless it is
released by some unknown environmental factors.
D) environmental factors play a more important role than genetic factors in the origin of schizophrenia.
Question 5Harold and Tanya both have a wide range of schizophrenic symptoms that came on rather suddenly.
Harold's symptoms have lasted for eight months; Tanya's have lasted only eight weeks. According to the
DSM-IV their diagnoses should be
A) schizophreniform disorder for Harold; brief psychotic disorder for Tanya.
B) undifferentiated schizophrenia for Harold; schizophreniform disorder for Tanya.
C) schizoaffective disorder for Harold; schizophreniform disorder for Tanya.
D) disorganized schizophrenia for Harold; undifferentiated schizophrenia for Tanya.
Question 6Adoption studies are typically used
A) to separate the effects of nature and nurture.
B) to establish the primary role that the environment plays in most disorders.
C) in order to isolate the environmental factors that trigger a disorder.
D) to assess the effectiveness of long-term treatment protocols.
Question 7Both of Mary's parents have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Bob has an identical twin who has
schizophrenia. Who is more likely to develop schizophrenia and why?
A) Bob because he has inherited the same susceptibility that his twin is expressing.
B) Mary because females are more susceptible than males to the genetic forms of schizophrenia.
C) Mary because all of her genes come from her parents and they both have the disease.
D) Bob because he is male and has a family history of schizophrenia.
Question 8When John stopped drinking after his last week-long binge, he became very ill. He was disoriented,
hallucinating, and paranoid. John seems to be experiencing
A) a severe hangover. B) alcohol-induced psychosis.
C) alcohol amnestic disorder. D) alcohol withdrawal delirium.
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