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• Question: An illness of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary motor or sensory
functions, which suggest another medical condition but that is judged to be caused by
psychological factors because the illness is preceded by conflicts or other stressors in
known as which of the following?
• functional neurological symptom disorder
• 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
• Ganser Syndrome
• Question: Which of the following can cause delirium? Check all that apply.
• Polypharmacy
• Sleep deprivation
• Question: Acute withdrawal from alcohol represents which type of clinical
problem in psychosomatic medicine?
• Medical complications of psychiatric conditions or treatments
• Question: The principal theoretician to bring psyche and soma together was which
of the following?
• Sigmund Freud
• Question: Which of the following would not be included in the treatment plan for a
patient with illness anxiety disorder?
• Exploratory invasive procedures to obtain diagnosis
• Question: Which of the following is consistent with current literature about the
relationship between obstetrical complications and autism spectrum disorders (ASD)?
• Research proves there is a positive correlation between obstetrical
complications and ASD
• Question: The epidemiology related to kleptomania includes which of the
following?
• Kleptomania is reported to occur in fewer than 5 percent of identified
shoplifters.
• Question: A frontotemporal dementia with onset in the fifth to sixth decade of life,
more common in men, marked by personality change and cognitive decline, is known
as which of the following?
• Pick’s Disease
• Question: Which of the following demographics are consistent with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD)
• Four times more common in boys than girls.
• Question: The ARNP is working with the family of a patient with Alzheimer’s Disease
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 the following
in educating the patient about the patient’s
• The patient is delusional. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of patients with
dementia have delusions
• Question: Which of the following persons hypothesized that the symptoms of
conversion disorder reflect unconscious conflict?
• Sigmund Freud
• Question: Which of the following is consistent within normal range
developmental milestones in adaptive skills for a 4-year-old?
• Toilets self alone; uses fork
• Question: A temporary marked alteration in the state of consciousness or by the
customary sense of personal identity without the replacement by an alternate sense of
identity is known as which of the following?
• Dissociative trance disorder
• Question: Differential diagnoses to be considered when diagnosing Ganser syndrome
include which of the following?
• All the above (organic dementia, depressive pseudodementia,
Korsakoff’s syndrome)
• Question: A patient who has been raped, presents with the inability to recall important
personal information and any information about the rape, does recall events prior and
since. There does not appear to be any physiological reason for this. This presentation
is consistent with which of the following diagnoses?
• Dissociative amnesia
• Question: Depersonalization can result from which of the following
conditions? Check all that apply.
• Seizure disorders
• 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 diagnosed with which of
the following diagnoses?
• Conduct Disorder
• Question: A sudden 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 the following?
• Dissociative fugue
• Question: Which of the following is NOT considered a nonpathological form of
amnesia?
• Generalized Amnesia
• Question: The diagnosis formerly known as multiple personality disorder is now
known as which of the following?
• Dissociative Identity Disorder