NURS 6635 PSYCHOPATHOLOGY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024
1. One of the most unreliable categories in current clas- sification is in the area
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a) Schizophrenia
b) Anxiety disorders
c) Mood disorders
d) Personality disorders d) Personality dis- orders
2. Adrianne has suffered from cognitive deficits for her entire life. When she was a child, she was diagnosed as suffering from "mental retardation." If she was now re-diagnosed with the DSM-5 and found to have the same symptoms, which label would replace her for- mer diagnosis?
a) Intellectual disability
b) Leaning disorder
c) Autism spectrum disorder
d) Functional neurological impairment a) Intellectual dis- ability
3. Perhaps the biggest change that has been seen with the release of DSM-5 is
a) The removal of the multi-axial diagnostic system
b) The inclusion of a list of FDA approved psychotic medications
c) The addition of treatment recommendations
d) Augmentation of the personality disorder category that increases the number of diagnosis from 10-15 a) The removal of the multi-axial di- agnostic system
4. The likely future course of a disorder is called its
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a) Prognosis
b) Diagnosis
c) Etiology
d) Inference a) Prognosis
5.
Hideki was attending his fifth baseball game at Con- dor Stadium, where he had previously had a panic attack. He did not know if he would have a panic attack today, but shortly after entering the stadium, he did.
This type of panic attack is .
a) Environmentally predisposed
b) Situationally bound
c) Cued
d) Uncued a) Environmentally predisposed
6. Which of the following people living in the United States is most likely to develop GAD?
a) Monica, a 50-year-old woman
b) Billy, an 8-year-old boy
c) Sam, a 50-year-old male
d) Tanya, a 15-year-old girl a) Monica,
a 50-year-old woman
7. Jeremy cannot remember a phone number without jotting it down. He demonstrates deficit in
a) Impulsivity
b) Sustained attention
c) Selective attention
d) Attentional capacity b) Sustained at- tention
8. The dimensional approach to classification of mental disorders differs from the categorical approach be- cause the dimensional system provides
a) lists of symptoms that are associated with all of the forms of psychopathology that are currently believed to exist
b) diagnostic labels based on the presence of specific symptoms.
c) information that is used to determine the cause and treatment of the disorder.
d) scales that indicate the degree to which patients
d) scales that in- dicate the degree to which patients are experiencing various cognitions, moods, and be- haviors. [Show Less]