NRNP6635 Psychopathology Final Exam With Answers (231 Solved Questions)

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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
NRNP 6635 FINAL EXAM - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)

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

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

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

Select the psychoactive substance that is most frequently consumed worldwide.
Selected
Answer: Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world.
B. Caffeine
 Question 22
Select the age range at which most children with gender dysphoria begin to show
increased anxiety over anticipated changes to their bodies.
Selected
Answer: Gender identity crystallizes in most persons by age 2 or 3 years.
Parents, however, typically report that the cross-gender behaviors were apparent before 3 years of
age.
Children typically begin to develop a sense of their gender identity around age 3.
D. 3 to 4
 Question 23
Select the theorist who first studied social and cultural influences on suicide.
Selected
Answer: The first major contribution to the study of the social and cultural influences on suicide was
made at the end of the 19th century by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim.
B. Durkheim
 Question 24
Select the disorder in which is characterized by lack breast development.
Selected
Answer: Turner’s syndrome in a patient aged 23. Note webbed neck, increased carrying angle, failure
of breast development, and lack of pubic hair.
B.5-α-reductase deficiency
 Question 25
Select the age range of the highest rate of substance dependence or abuse.
Selected

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Answer: In 2012, the rate for dependence or abuse is highest among adults age 18 to 25 (19 percent)
compared to youths age 12 to 17 (6 percent) and adults age 26 or older (7 percent). After age 21, a
general decline occurred with age.
B. 18-25
 Question 26
Select two terms preferred to describe sexual orientation.
Selected
Answers: Hemosexual and Hecterosexual
A.Gay D. Lesbian
 Question 27
Select the two patient populations in which delirium occurs most frequently.
Selected
Answers:
B. Terminally ill C. Long-term care
 Question 28
Select the drug used to treat neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Selected
Answer:
C. Dantrolene
 Question 29
Select the drug that is most likely to cause parkinsonian movement symptoms.
Selected
Answer: D. Haloperidol
 Question 30
Select the two main conditions to initially identify in adult psychiatric emergencies.
Selected
Answers: B. Suicide D. Substance intoxication
 Question 31

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Select the psychiatric emergency that is indicated by mothers who express inadequate
distress over their children’s medical symptoms.
Selected
Answer: Careful observation may reveal that the mothers often do not exhibit appropriate signs of
distress on hearing the details of the child’s medical symptoms.
D. Munchausen’s syndrome
 Question 32
Select the drug that is least life-threatening when consumed in an overdose.
Selected
Answer:
B. Zolpidem
 Question 33
Select the drug that is most safe and effective in treating mild to moderate memory loss
in early Alzheimer’s disease.
Selected
Answer:
A. Donepezil
 Question 34
Select the substance that is most commonly abused by adolescents.
Selected
Answer:
B. Marijuana
 Question 35
Select the development time of symptoms in neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Selected
Answer: The symptoms usually evolve over 24 to 72 hours, and the untreated syndrome lasts 10 to 14
days.
D. 10-14 days
 Question 36

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Select the patient population at most risk of mortality from delirium.
Selected C.
Answer: Alcohol withdrawal
 Question 37
Select the most distinguishing characteristic of delirium.
Selected
Answer: Classically, delirium has a sudden onset (hours or days), a brief and fluctuating course, and
rapid improvement when the causative factor is identified and eliminated, but each of these
characteristic features can vary in individual patients.
B. Sudden onset
 Question 38
Select the category of symptoms that is most commonly comorbid with cognitive
disorders.
Selected
Answer:
A. Behavioral
 Question 39
Select the primary defense mechanism that is common in delusional disorder.
Selected
Answer:
A.Projection
 Question 40
Select the neurotransmitter system that is most associated with the addictive rewarding
properties of opioids.
Selected
Answer:
A. Dopaminergic
 Question 41
Select the type of hallucinations most common in schizophrenia.

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Selected The most common hallucinations, however, are auditory, with voices that are often
threatening, obscene, accusatory, or insulting.
Answer: C. Auditory
 Question 42
Select the diagnostic criterion for catatonia resulting from a medical condition.
Selected
Answer:
B. Waxy flexibility
 Question 43
Select the two factors that are not applicable to diagnosing schizoaffective disorder.
Selected
Answers: As with most psychiatric diagnoses, schizoaffective disorder should not be used if the
symptoms are caused by substance abuse or a secondary medical condition.
C. Medical condition D. Substance abuse
 Question 44
Select the percentage of substance-addicted persons with a concurrent psychiatric
disorder.
Selected
Answer: B. 50
 Question 45
Select the hepatic enzyme that performs the initial metabolism of alcohol.
Selected
Answer:
A.ADH
 Question 46
Select the epidemiologic characteristic of tardive dyskinesia symptoms.
Selected
Answer:

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B. Absence in age less than 50
 Question 47
Select the neurotransmitter that inhibits sexual orgasm.
Selected
Answer:
A. Serotonin
 Question 48
Select the drug that is least likely to cause male sexual dysfunction.
Selected
Answer:
B. Sertraline
 Question 49
Select the youngest age at which childhood-onset schizophrenia can be distinguished
from autism spectrum.
Selected
Answer:
A. 3
 Question 50
Select the most effective form of questioning when taking a sex history.
Selected
Answer:
B. Open ended
 Question 51
Select the initial intervention to treat children experiencing acute school refusal.
Selected
Answer:
B. Return to school the next
normal day

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 Question 52
Select the primary method to assess cognition.
Selected
Answer:
C. Mental status exam
 Question 53
Select the preferred drug used to treat alcohol withdrawal.
Selected
Answer:
D. Lorazepam
 Question 54
Select the procedure most applicable to confirming a diagnosis of delirium.
Selected
Answer: C. EEG
 Question 55
Select the brain region that is associated with substance addiction.
Selected
Answer: A. Prefrontal cortex
 Question 56
Select the two defense mechanisms used commonly by patients with personality
disorders.
Selected
Answers: C. Splitting/D. Projection
 Question 57
Select the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia in the United States.
Selected In the United States, the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia is about 1 percent
Answer: A. 0.1-1.0%
 Question 58

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Select the subtype of schizophrenia in which auditory hallucinations are frequent.
Selected
Answer: D. Residual
 Question 59
Select the neurotransmitter deficiency that is most associated with delirium.
Selected
Answer: B. Acetylcholine
 Question 60
Select the rating scale used to assess medication-induced movement disorders.
Selected
Answer:
C. AIMS
 Question 61
Select the symptom not present in paranoid personality disorder.
Selected
Answer: B. Fixed delusions
 Question 62
Select the percentage range of schizophrenic patients that remain significantly impaired
throughout their lives.
Selected C.
Answer: 40 to 60
 Question 63
Select the drug most likely to inhibit female orgasm.
Selected
Answer: Paroxetine
 Question 64
Select the two non-drug therapies most likely to be effective in treating paraphilic
disorders.

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