1) Thalia hears voices telling her she is worthless and stupid, and she believes that, because she is so bad, she is the cause of natural disasters like storms and earthquakes. Her personal hygiene is not especially good and she has largely withdrawn from others, causing her to be fired from her job and, consequently, to lose her apartment. An effective treatment to reduce or eliminate some of her symptoms might be drugs that

reduce acetylcholine production.

increase acetylcholine production.

increase activity at dopamine receptors.

decrease activity at dopamine receptors.

2) Which of the following examples would be considered representative of comorbidity?

David, who feels the need to wash his hands 100 times a day and also has severe depression

Jim, who had depression for several months followed by remission of symptoms for several years

Liz, who has acute anxiety symptoms for only a week

Ashley, who has had schizophrenia for 20 years

3) Dr. Smith conducts research on the causes of schizophrenia and has found that people who both have a family history of schizophrenia and experienced difficult childhoods marked by prolonged abuse and neglect are, themselves, at increased risk of the disorder. Dr. Smiths findings are most consistent with the

psychodynamic model.

pathogen model.

biological model.

diathesis-stress model.

4) Kara is always worried about her health, although objectively, she seems fairly healthy. If she feels unusually tired, she thinks she has cancer. If she is coughing and sneezing after she walks into a musty, dusty room, her mind goes to COVID. When she sees an article titled Twenty symptoms that mean you have followed by the name of the disorder in her social media feed, she often reports to her friends that she thinks she has that disorder. Kara may have

hypochondriasis.

paraphilia.

pica.

hysteria.

5) George has extreme memory loss and often forgets to do things like turn the burner off when he prepares food and he even gets lost when he goes out for a walk in the neighborhood he has lived in for more than 50 years. He has trouble taking care of himself, says very inappropriate things at times, and is often unsure of the date or even of where he is. Which category of disorders are Georges symptoms most consistent with?

Neurocognitive

Somatic

Neurodevelopmental

Dissociative