Psychiatry - Psychopathology Flashcards
PSY - 3.2
Disorientation appears in:
A) Korsakoff syndrome
B) Acute schizophrenic episode
C) Hypomania
D) Depression
E) Agoraphobia
ANSWER
A) Korsakoff syndrome
EXPLANATION
Disorientation, short-term memory loss and confabulation are typical for Korsakoffâs syndrome
PSY - 3.3
Perception without objective stimulus:
A) Hallucination
B) Illusion
C) Delusion
D) Derealisation
E) Depersonalisation
ANSWER
A) Hallucination
EXPLANATION
Hallucinations are perceptions without objective stimuli
PSY - 3.4
Short-term memory loss is a typical symptom in:
A) Mania
B) Depression
C) Schizophrenia
D) Korsakoff syndrome
E) Panic disorder
ANSWER
D) Korsakoff syndrome
EXPLANATION
Short-term memory loss, disorientation and confabulation are typical in Korsakoff syndrome
PSY - 3.5
A patient starts to cry without any reason. The phenomenon can be:
A) Blunted affect
B) Anhedonia
C) Anxiety
D) Emotional incontinence
E) Alexithymia
ANSWER
D) Emotional incontinence
EXPLANATION
Emotional incontinence is typical in old patients with dementia
PSY - 3.6
Hallucination is a symptom of:
A) Thinking
B) Sensorium
C) Attention
D) Perception
E) Mood
ANSWER
D) Perception
EXPLANATION
Hallucination and illusion are symptoms of perception
PSY - 3.8
The patient said during the interview that he had seen two birds in the window. This meant to him that 2 weeks later he will suffer a serious injury. This symptom is a/an:
A) Illusion
B) Hallucination
C) Delusion
D) Neologism
ANSWER
C) Delusion
EXPLANATION
This is a delusion of reference.
PSY - 3.9
The most important characteristic of psychosis is:
A) Thought disorder
B) Schizophrenia
C) Bipolar affective disorder
D) Disturbed reality-testing
E) Hostility
ANSWER
D) Disturbed reality-testing
EXPLANATION
The essence of psychosis is the disturbed reality-testing due to symptoms
PSY - 3.10
An old, confused patient is admitted to the hospital. When the doctor asks ’How old are you‘, he answers: ’70 years‘. The doctor asks ’Where are we now?’, the patient answers: ’70 years’. How is this phenomenon called?
A) Coprolalia
B) Rumination
C) Compulsion
D) Perseveration
E) Echolalia
ANSWER
D) Perseveration
EXPLANATION
Perseveration is a sign of organic brain disease
PSY - 3.11
An 8-year-old child with high fever sees the curtain moving. He tells his mother that an animal is coming in through the window. The symptom is:
A) Delusion
B) Fantasy
C) Hallucination
D) Illusion
E) Phobia
ANSWER
D) Illusion
EXPLANATION
In children with high fever illusions can occur
PSY - 3.12
Which is not true about alexithymia?
A) The term was coined by Sifneos
B) It was originally introduced to describe psychosomatic disorders
C) It is characterized by the verbal expression of emotions
D) It is associated with somatoform disorders and substance abuse disorders
ANSWER
C) It is characterized by the verbal expression of emotions
EXPLANATION
Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in expressing and verbalizing emotions.
PSY - 3.14
All of the following are examples of symptoms of the form of thinking, except:
A) Delusion
B) Flight of ideas
C) Logorrhea
ANSWER
A) Delusion
EXPLANATION
Delusion is a symptom of the content of thinking
PSY - 3.15
A female patient has a delusion that his boss loves her, the symptom is:
A) Erotic delusion
B) Erotomania
C) Transitivism
D) None of the above
ANSWER
B) Erotomania
EXPLANATION
Erotomania is also called as De Clérambault symptom
PSY - 3.16
In psychotic depression the patient delusionally believes that he is not alive. The name of the symptom is:
A) Nihilistic delusion
B) Anxiety
C) Horror vacui
D) None of the above
ANSWER
A) Nihilistic delusion
EXPLANATION
Nihilistic delusions arealso called Cotard symptom.
PSY - 3.17
The hallucinatory voices instruct the patient to do something, the name of the symptom is:
A) Delusion of influence
B) Command hallucination
C) Somatic hallucinations
D) None of the above
ANSWER
B) Command hallucination
EXPLANATION
Command hallucinations can lead to suicide or homicide
PSY - 3.18
Delusion of infestation is also known as:
A) Capgras symptom
B) Ekbom symptom
C) Cotard symptom
D) None of the above
ANSWER
B) Ekbom symptom
EXPLANATION
Delusion of infestation or delusion of parasitosis is called Ekbom symptom