(VERSION 1) QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES 2026/2027 LATEST
UPDATE
1. Question: The ARNP is working with the family of a patient with
Alzheimer’sDisease who keeps stating the family is plotting against her,
trying to have her “snuffed out.” The family is distraught because they
state they are doing their best to make sure their family member is safe.
The ARNP explains which of thefollowing in educating the patient about
the patient’s
A. The patient is delusional. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of
patientswith dementia have delusions
2. Question: Which of the following persons hypothesized that the
symptomsof conversion disorder reflect unconscious conflict? A.
Sigmund Freud
3. Question: Which of the following is consistent within normal
rangedevelopmental milestones in adaptive skills for a 4-year-old?
A. Toilets self alone; uses fork
4. Question: A temporary marked alteration in the state of consciousness or
bythe customary sense of personal identity without the replacement by an
alternate sense of identity is known as which of the following?
A. Dissociative trance disorder
5. Question: Differential diagnoses to be considered when diagnosing
Gansersyndrome include which of the following?
A. All the above (organic dementia, depressive
pseudodementia,Korsakoff’s syndrome)
, 6. Question: A patient who has been raped, presents with the inability to
recallimportant personal information and any information about the rape,
does recall events prior and since. There does not appear to be
any physiological reason forthis. This presentation is consistent with which of
the following diagnoses?
A. Dissociative amnesia
7. Question: Depersonalization can result from which of the
followingconditions? Check all that apply.
A. Seizure disorders
1) Question: An illness of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary motor or
sensory functions, which suggest another medical condition but that is judged
tobe caused by psychological factors because the illness is preceded by
conflicts or other stressors in known as which of the following?
A. functional neurological symptom disorder
2) Question: A condition characterized by the person giving approximate
answers,with clouding of consciousness, frequently accompanied by
hallucinations or other dissociative, somatoform or conversion symptoms is
A. Ganser Syndrome
3) Question: Which of the following can cause delirium? Check all that apply.
A. Polypharmacy
B. Sleep deprivation
4) Question: Acute withdrawal from alcohol represents which type of
clinicalproblem in psychosomatic medicine?
A. Medical complications of psychiatric conditions or
treatments
5) Question: The principal theoretician to bring psyche and soma together
waswhich of the following? A. Sigmund Freud
6) Question: Which of the following would not be included in the treatment
planfor a patient with illness anxiety disorder?
, A. Exploratory invasive procedures to obtain diagnosis
7) Question: Which of the following is consistent with current literature about
therelationship between obstetrical complications and autism spectrum
disorders (ASD)?
A. Research proves there is a positive correlation between
obstetricalcomplications and ASD
which of thefollowing?
A. Kleptomania is reported to occur in fewer than 5
percent ofidentified shoplifters .
9) Question: A frontotemporal dementia with onset in the fifth to sixth
8 )) Question:
The epidemiology related to kleptomania includes
, decade of life, more common in men, marked by personality change
and cognitive decline,is known as which of the following?
A. Pick’s Disease
8. Question: Which of the following demographics are consistent with
autismspectrum disorder (ASD)
A. Four times more common in boys than girls.
Question: A child who demonstrates repetitive significant violations
of social rules and the rights of others over the course of a year would
likely be diagnosedwith which of the following diagnoses?
A. Conduct Disorder
19) Question: A sudde n unexpected purposeful travel away from home
with inability to recall all of one’s past accompanied by confusion about
personal identity not due to direct effects of a substance or a general
medical condition which causes clinically significant distress or
impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of
functioning is most specifically known as which of thefollowing?
A. Dissociative fugue
20) Question: Which of the following is NOT considered a
nonpathological form ofamnesia?
A. Generalized Amnesia
21) Question: The diagnosis formerly known as multiple personality
disorder isnow known as which of the following?
A. Dissociative Identity Disorder
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