Neurocognitive Disorders Flashcards
1
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- Defined as the deterioration of cognitive function which impairs social and occupational functioning.
a. Delirium
b. Dementia
c. Alzheimer’s Disease
d. Parkinson’s Disease
A
B
2
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- Defined as a state of mental confusion.
a. Delirium
b. Dementia
c. Alzheimer’s Disease
d. Parkinson’s Disease
A
A
3
Q
- Which of the following diseases is the most common cause of dementia?
a. Alzheimer’s disease
b. Huntington’s disease
c. Korsakoff’s disease
d. Parkinson’s disease
A
A
4
Q
- It is a permanent deterioration due to prolonged drug use, especially in combination with poor diet.
a. Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer’s Disease
b. Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
c. Substance-induced Neurocognitive Disorder
d. Neurocognitive Disorder associated with HIV infection
A
C
5
Q
- All of these are associated with Neurocognitive Disorder except:
a. Vascular disease
b. HIV infection
c. Lewy body disease
d. Rheumatism
A
D
6
Q
- A type of Dementia characterized with fluctuating cognitive symptoms, prominent visual hallucinations and intense dreams involving movement and vocalizing.
a. Vascular Dementia
b. Dementia with Lewy Bodies
c. Dementia causes by disease or injury
d. Dementia caused by Alzheimer’s Disease
A
B
7
Q
- All are medical issues that can lead to Dementia caused by Disease and Injury except:
a. Meningitis
b. Brain tumors
c. HIV
d. Stoke
A
D
8
Q
- Which of the following is an area of psychology that is concerned with mapping how early childhood experiences may act as risk factors for later diagnosable psychological disorders and attempts to describe the pathways by which early experiences may generate adult psychological problems?
a. clinical psychopathology
b. developmental psychopathology
c. applied psychopathology
d. cognitive psychopathology
A
B
9
Q
- Research shows that patients with antisocial personality disorder developed from ___________ as a child.
a. Conduct disorder
b. ADHD
c. Eating disorder
d. Somatic Symptom disorder
A
A
10
Q
- A difference between Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder is:
a. Conduct Disorder problem behaviors most likely bring the individual in conflict with authority figures while Oppositional Defiant Disorders are usually confined at home.
b. Oppositional Defiant Disorder involves behaviors of theft and deceitfulness usually not present in Conduct Disorder.
c. Conduct Disorder problem behaviors are usually less severe than the behaviors present in Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
d. Oppositional Defiant Disorder involves problem of emotional dysregulation not present in Conduct Disorder.
A
D
11
Q
- When a child refuses to be left alone by a caregiver on the first day of preschool, you might suspect that
a. The child has trust issues
b. The child needs to be further observed for symptoms of separation anxiety disorder
c. The child responded normally for his age
d. The child is trying to attract the teacher’s attention
A
C
12
Q
- This is the second most common chromosomally related cause of intellectual disability. People with this condition have hyper-extensible joints and display moderate to severe ID, high rates of hyperactivity and short attention span.
a. Down Syndrome
b. Fragile X Syndrome
c. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
d. Phenylketonuria
A
B
13
Q
- Ravi is a 12-year-old boy of average intelligence as indicated by his IQ scores. He loves school and works hard on his homework. Ravi has earned straight A’s in every subject except math, where he has been achieving grades in the C range. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Ravi does not appear to have a specific learning disorder because his achievement is consistent with expectations based on his intelligence.
b. Ravi appears to have a math disorder because his math grades are so far below his other grades.
c. Ravi appears to have a math disorder because there is a discrepancy between his intelligence and his achievement in many subjects.
d. Ravi does not appear to have a specific learning disorder because he has shown that he can achieve what he wants to.
A
A
14
Q
- Momo is a sixth-grade girl who has great difficulty in school. She pays attention and works hard but appears to have trouble remembering facts and concepts that she has read about. Before we can determine whether Momo has a learning disability, it is most important to know her __________.
a. family history
b. social skills
c. math skills
d. IQ
A
D
15
Q
- Chen is a teen who has no friends. Although he is quite verbal, he speaks in a strange and formal style of speech. Chen is obsessed with airplanes and behaves in a very strange way. He is very self-focused and does not understand the concept of social reciprocity. The most likely form of autistic spectrum disorder affecting Chen is ____________.
a. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
b. Asperger’s Disorder
c. Rett’s Disorder
d. Autistic Disorder
A
B
16
Q
- A communication disorder characterized by disturbance in speech fluency (repeating words, prolonging sounds and extended pauses).
a. Language Disorder
b. Tourette’s Disorder
c. Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder
d. Social Communication Disorder
A
C
17
Q
- A learning disability characterized by faulty speech perception, difficulty recognizing rhyme and alliteration, problems naming familiar objects rapidly, delay in learning syntactic rules and deficient phonological awareness.
a. Dyslexia
b. Dyscalculia
c. Social Communication Disorder
d. Language Disorder
A
A
