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Question 1
Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive impairment.
Selected
Answer: D. Recent memory
Question 2
Select the most frequent cause of infant and childhood intellectual disability that is
attributed to a specific gene.
Selected
Answer: C. Down syndrome
Question 3
Select the neurotransmitter that is most associated with the occurrence of ADHD.
Selected
Answer: B. Dopamine
Question 4
Select the drug of choice to treat psychosis in delirious patients.
Selected
Answer:
D. Haloperidol
Question 5
Select the characteristic that is greater in childhood than adult onset schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: B. Social withdrawal
Question 6
Select the personality disorder in which patients are continually in crisis and exhibit
unpredictable behavior.
Selected
Answer: C. Borderline
Question 7
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Select the factor that best correlates with attempted and completed suicide.
Selected
Answer: A. Mental illness
Question 8
Select the brain region that shows the greatest anatomical abnormalities in schizophrenic
patients.
Selected By the end of the 20th century, however, researchers had made significant strides in
revealing a potential neuropathological basis for schizophrenia, primarily in the limbic system and the
basal ganglia, including neuropathological or neurochemical abnormalities in the cerebral cortex, the
thalamus, and the brainstem. Because the basal ganglia and cerebellum are involved in the control of
movement, disease in these areas is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
Answer: D. Basal ganglia
Question 9
Select the gender dysphoria in which genital surgery is usually not chosen.
Selected
Answer: but who maintain a gender identity that is the same as their birth-assigned gender known as
crossdressers.
C. Crossdresser
Question 10
Select the antipsychotic drug for which the labeling carries a black box warning for
agranulocytosis.
Selected
Answer:
A. Clozapine
Question 11
Select the time of onset for tolerance to develop from continuous use of hallucinogens
such as LSD.
Selected
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Answer: Tolerance, particularly to the sensory and other psychological effects, is evident as soon as
the second or third day of successive LSD use. Four to 6 days free of LSD are necessary to lose
significant tolerance.
B.4-7 days
Question 12
Select the most reliable method to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: Therefore, a patient’s history is essential for the diagnosis of schizophrenia; clinicians cannot
diagnose schizophrenia simply by results of a mental status examination, which may vary.
D. Patient history
Question 13
Select the dysfunction that is common to 50% to 85% of schizophrenic patients.
Selected
Answer: Various studies have reported abnormal eye movements in 50 to 85 percent of patients
with schizophrenia compared with about 25 percent in psychiatric patients without schizophrenia
and fewer than 10 percent in nonpsychiatrically ill control participant.
D. Eye movement
Question 14
Select two of the “Four A’s” symptoms of schizophrenia described by Bleuler.
Selected These symptoms included associational disturbances of thought, especially looseness,
affective disturbances, autism, and ambivalence, summarized as the four As: associations, affect,
autism, and ambivalence.
Answers:
A. autism B. ambivalence
Question 15
Select the personality disorder in which patients exhibit covert obstructionism,
procrastination and pessimism.
Selected In psychoanalytic terms, this phenomenon is called masochism and includes failure,
procrastination, silly or provocative behavior, self-demeaning clowning, and frankly self-destructive acts.
Answer: D. Passive aggressive
Question 16
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Select the negative symptom of
schizophrenia. Selected
Answer: A. Anhedonia
Question 17
Select the main cause female orgasmic
disorder. Selected
Answer:
B. Genetic
Question 18
Select the age range for 90% of patients treated for schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: About 90 percent of patients in treatment for schizophrenia are
between 15 and 55 years old.
B. 10-55
Question 19
Select the non-drug therapy in which mastery of anxiety through desensitization is
critical to successful treatment of sexual dysfunction.
Selected
Answer: The behavior therapist enables the patient to master the anxiety through a standard program
of systematic desensitization, which is designed to inhibit the learned anxious response by
encouraging behaviors antithetical to anxiety. \AC1336647530\BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
C. Group
Question 20
Select the disorder that is often comorbid with brief psychotic
disorder. Selected
Answer: Personality disorder is also a predisposing factor for other psychiatric
disorders
D. Personality
Question 21
Question 1
Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive impairment.
Selected
Answer: D. Recent memory
Question 2
Select the most frequent cause of infant and childhood intellectual disability that is
attributed to a specific gene.
Selected
Answer: C. Down syndrome
Question 3
Select the neurotransmitter that is most associated with the occurrence of ADHD.
Selected
Answer: B. Dopamine
Question 4
Select the drug of choice to treat psychosis in delirious patients.
Selected
Answer:
D. Haloperidol
Question 5
Select the characteristic that is greater in childhood than adult onset schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: B. Social withdrawal
Question 6
Select the personality disorder in which patients are continually in crisis and exhibit
unpredictable behavior.
Selected
Answer: C. Borderline
Question 7
,NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam
Select the factor that best correlates with attempted and completed suicide.
Selected
Answer: A. Mental illness
Question 8
Select the brain region that shows the greatest anatomical abnormalities in schizophrenic
patients.
Selected By the end of the 20th century, however, researchers had made significant strides in
revealing a potential neuropathological basis for schizophrenia, primarily in the limbic system and the
basal ganglia, including neuropathological or neurochemical abnormalities in the cerebral cortex, the
thalamus, and the brainstem. Because the basal ganglia and cerebellum are involved in the control of
movement, disease in these areas is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
Answer: D. Basal ganglia
Question 9
Select the gender dysphoria in which genital surgery is usually not chosen.
Selected
Answer: but who maintain a gender identity that is the same as their birth-assigned gender known as
crossdressers.
C. Crossdresser
Question 10
Select the antipsychotic drug for which the labeling carries a black box warning for
agranulocytosis.
Selected
Answer:
A. Clozapine
Question 11
Select the time of onset for tolerance to develop from continuous use of hallucinogens
such as LSD.
Selected
,NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam
Answer: Tolerance, particularly to the sensory and other psychological effects, is evident as soon as
the second or third day of successive LSD use. Four to 6 days free of LSD are necessary to lose
significant tolerance.
B.4-7 days
Question 12
Select the most reliable method to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: Therefore, a patient’s history is essential for the diagnosis of schizophrenia; clinicians cannot
diagnose schizophrenia simply by results of a mental status examination, which may vary.
D. Patient history
Question 13
Select the dysfunction that is common to 50% to 85% of schizophrenic patients.
Selected
Answer: Various studies have reported abnormal eye movements in 50 to 85 percent of patients
with schizophrenia compared with about 25 percent in psychiatric patients without schizophrenia
and fewer than 10 percent in nonpsychiatrically ill control participant.
D. Eye movement
Question 14
Select two of the “Four A’s” symptoms of schizophrenia described by Bleuler.
Selected These symptoms included associational disturbances of thought, especially looseness,
affective disturbances, autism, and ambivalence, summarized as the four As: associations, affect,
autism, and ambivalence.
Answers:
A. autism B. ambivalence
Question 15
Select the personality disorder in which patients exhibit covert obstructionism,
procrastination and pessimism.
Selected In psychoanalytic terms, this phenomenon is called masochism and includes failure,
procrastination, silly or provocative behavior, self-demeaning clowning, and frankly self-destructive acts.
Answer: D. Passive aggressive
Question 16
, NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam NURS 6660N final exam
Select the negative symptom of
schizophrenia. Selected
Answer: A. Anhedonia
Question 17
Select the main cause female orgasmic
disorder. Selected
Answer:
B. Genetic
Question 18
Select the age range for 90% of patients treated for schizophrenia.
Selected
Answer: About 90 percent of patients in treatment for schizophrenia are
between 15 and 55 years old.
B. 10-55
Question 19
Select the non-drug therapy in which mastery of anxiety through desensitization is
critical to successful treatment of sexual dysfunction.
Selected
Answer: The behavior therapist enables the patient to master the anxiety through a standard program
of systematic desensitization, which is designed to inhibit the learned anxious response by
encouraging behaviors antithetical to anxiety. \AC1336647530\BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
C. Group
Question 20
Select the disorder that is often comorbid with brief psychotic
disorder. Selected
Answer: Personality disorder is also a predisposing factor for other psychiatric
disorders
D. Personality
Question 21
