13 questions
Which researcher states that we have been aware of the link between schizophrenia and environmental risk factors for many years.
Cooper
Veling
Boydell
Vassos
Which of the following is not environmental/social risk factor for schizophrenia?
childhood trauma
poverty
living in a rural area
weak ethnic identity
Which of the following may be the important link which means that unemployment, poverty and a poorer standard of living are all associated with schizophrenia?
Increased social stress
People feel they belong
Improved access to treatment services
Better diet
Which researcher suggests city life is more stressful than rural life?
Cooper
Eaton
Boydell
Veling
Which stressor is not associated with city life?
lack of social cohesion
being a victim of crime
anonymity and lack of neighbourliness
further to travel to social and health services
Increased population density may make people more vulnerable to schizophrenia as it makes life more
competitive and ruthless
harmonious and co-operative
vibrant and stimulating
meaningful and reflective
Who is at greater risk of schizophrenia?
first generation immigrants
second generation immigrants
indigenous population unless they are no longer in the majority (e.g. Native Americans, Aborigines, Maoris etc)
Who showed that the risk of schizophrenia increases as the the size of the ethnic minority group decreases ?
Boydell
Cooper
Eaton
Veling
Which of the following is not a risk factor for schizophrenia?
being a member of a minority
marginalisation
perceived or actual discrimination
strong sense of belonging
When compared with people brought up in rural areas, Florian Lederbogen found that people who grew up in an urban areas showed greater activity in the amygdala and which other brain region when exposed to a stressful situation?
anterior cingulate cortex
nucleus accumbens
striatum
mesolimbic pathway
The antertior cingulate cortex regulates
the stress response
the experience of disgust
the release of oxytocin
the sleep/wake mechanism
Selten and Cantor-Graae (2005) proposed the
social defeat hypothesis
social competition hypothesis
social causation hypothesis
social navigation hypothesis
Following a defeat, ‘intruder rats' showed
increased dopaminergic activity in the meso-limbic pathway
increased dopaminergic activity in the meso-cortical pathway