A common symptom of schizophrenia that involves rapidly changing topics within the same sentence, the repetition of words, or the meaningless use of rhyming or nonsense words is referred to as

Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Proactive interference refers to situations in which earlier learning impairs memory for information acquired later 2. Taj recently changed the password to his e-mail account; now he cannot remember his old password, illustrating the effects of proactive interference 3. Absentmindedness is most often due to divided attention 4. Divided attention is associated with an increase in lower-left frontal lobe activity 5. Divided attention results in decreased hippocampal activity during encoding

According to Freud, the manifest content of a dream is:

A) normally sexual in nature. B) just random neural activity during sleep. C) the apparent topic or superficial meaning. D) the hidden underlying meaning of the dream.

An animal has trouble digesting its food after damage to the ____.

A. occipital cortex B. lateral hypothalamus C. medial part of the hypothalamus D. pineal gland

Expressed emotion

a. helps a person combat schizophrenia because it shows that family members care deeply about the person. b. interferes with recovery from schizophrenia. c. seems to be a culture-bound phenomenon. d. is highest in non-industrialized cultures. e. prevents the development of process schizophrenia.