PSYCHIATRY REVISION QUESTIONS
PART I: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)
1. Disorder of thought content is
a) Word salad
b) Thought echo
c) Waxy flexibility
d) Catatonic stupor
2. A fixed upward gaze of a client on largactil is known as
a) Dystonia
b) Oculogyric crisis
c) Tardive dyskinesis
d) Akinesia
3. Sexual satisfaction is obtained through the mouth in the
a) Phallic stage
b) Oral stage
c) Biting stage
d) Genital stage
4. Drugs that act by increasing epinephrine and serotonin are
a) Agonistics
b) Antidepressants
c) Antipsychotics
d) Anxiolytics
5. An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language is
a) Jargon
b) Aphasia
c) Echopraxia
d) Shneider
6. The minimum age for a voluntary patient to be admitted into a mental hospital is
a) 15 years
b) 16 years
c) 18 years
d) 21 years
7. Patients ability to modify behavior is determined by will power in
a) Suggestive individual therapy
b) Supportive individual therapy
c) Pervasive individual therapy
d) Persuasive individual therapy
8. Utilitarianism is based on the believe that
a) Actions are bound by a sense of duty
b) The end results justifies the means
c) Do good and avoid evil
d) An eye is for an eye
, 9. Dr. Philippe Pinel unchained a group of patients who had been in chains for 30
years during
the
a) Humanitarian period
b) Scientific period
c) Political period
d) Demonological period
10. The document signed before admitting a psychiatric patient under the involuntary
criteria is
a) MOH 613
b) MOH 637
c) MOH 614
d) MOH 617
11. The following is true about schizophrenia
a) Disorganized schizophrenia is characterized by the waxy flexibility
b) Catatonic schizophrenia is characterized by the regressive behavior
c) Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by delusions of grandeur
d) Undifferentiated schizophrenia is characterized by stupor and excitement
12. Diagnosed with bipolar, George Maina is currently experiencing mania. The
following
describes the current state of George
a) Extreme Sadness
b) Has apathy
c) Self blame
d) Grandiose notions
13. The following is a dissociative disorder
a) Somatization disorder
b) Hypochondriac disorder
c) Psychogenic amnesia
d) Dysmorphic disorder
14. Which of the following is true about trans-sexualism
a) Their anatomic sexual organ is abnormal, painful and very itchy
b) They are comfortable with their secondary sexual characteristics
c) The Diagnosis of trans-sexualism is made during adulthood only
d) There is preoccupation with the need to get rid of own genitals
15. The following is a priority nursing diagnosis in a child who has autism
a) Impaired social interaction related to inability to trust
b) Knowledge deficit related to the etiology of the disease
c) Risk for impaired skin integrity related to the disease
d) Impaired skin integrity related to the disease process
PART I: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (20 MARKS)
1. Disorder of thought content is
a) Word salad
b) Thought echo
c) Waxy flexibility
d) Catatonic stupor
2. A fixed upward gaze of a client on largactil is known as
a) Dystonia
b) Oculogyric crisis
c) Tardive dyskinesis
d) Akinesia
3. Sexual satisfaction is obtained through the mouth in the
a) Phallic stage
b) Oral stage
c) Biting stage
d) Genital stage
4. Drugs that act by increasing epinephrine and serotonin are
a) Agonistics
b) Antidepressants
c) Antipsychotics
d) Anxiolytics
5. An impairment in the understanding or transmission of ideas by language is
a) Jargon
b) Aphasia
c) Echopraxia
d) Shneider
6. The minimum age for a voluntary patient to be admitted into a mental hospital is
a) 15 years
b) 16 years
c) 18 years
d) 21 years
7. Patients ability to modify behavior is determined by will power in
a) Suggestive individual therapy
b) Supportive individual therapy
c) Pervasive individual therapy
d) Persuasive individual therapy
8. Utilitarianism is based on the believe that
a) Actions are bound by a sense of duty
b) The end results justifies the means
c) Do good and avoid evil
d) An eye is for an eye
, 9. Dr. Philippe Pinel unchained a group of patients who had been in chains for 30
years during
the
a) Humanitarian period
b) Scientific period
c) Political period
d) Demonological period
10. The document signed before admitting a psychiatric patient under the involuntary
criteria is
a) MOH 613
b) MOH 637
c) MOH 614
d) MOH 617
11. The following is true about schizophrenia
a) Disorganized schizophrenia is characterized by the waxy flexibility
b) Catatonic schizophrenia is characterized by the regressive behavior
c) Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by delusions of grandeur
d) Undifferentiated schizophrenia is characterized by stupor and excitement
12. Diagnosed with bipolar, George Maina is currently experiencing mania. The
following
describes the current state of George
a) Extreme Sadness
b) Has apathy
c) Self blame
d) Grandiose notions
13. The following is a dissociative disorder
a) Somatization disorder
b) Hypochondriac disorder
c) Psychogenic amnesia
d) Dysmorphic disorder
14. Which of the following is true about trans-sexualism
a) Their anatomic sexual organ is abnormal, painful and very itchy
b) They are comfortable with their secondary sexual characteristics
c) The Diagnosis of trans-sexualism is made during adulthood only
d) There is preoccupation with the need to get rid of own genitals
15. The following is a priority nursing diagnosis in a child who has autism
a) Impaired social interaction related to inability to trust
b) Knowledge deficit related to the etiology of the disease
c) Risk for impaired skin integrity related to the disease
d) Impaired skin integrity related to the disease process
