Rembe - Chapter 3 (MS) Flashcards
Psychiatry
All of the following characteristics are exhibited by a passive-aggressive personality EXCEPT
Pouting
Stubbornness
Procrastination
Indecisiveness
Indecisiveness
All of the following characteristics are exhibited by a passive-dependent personality EXCEPT
Lack of self-confidence
Indecisiveness
Emotional dependency
Pouting
Pouting
A patient who is oversuspicious, with delusions of persecution, is pathognomonic of
Paranoia
Hebephrenia
Catatonia
Passive-aggressive personality
Paranoia
The term used to describe a condition in which a person has abnormal fear of heights is
Agoraphobia
Acrophobia
Algophobia
Mysophobia
Acrophobia
Which of the following is the most serious or severe form of mental disease?
Psychoneurotic disorder
Psychophysiologic disorders
Psychotic disorders
Psychosomatic disorders
Psychotic disorders
The earliest stage of development and associated appropriate behavior for the first year of life is
Oral period
Anal period
Genital period
Latency period
Oral period
The Bender Gestalt test can be used as
An individual motivator
A group IQ test
A measurement for verbal and abstract thinking
A projection test
A projection test
Avoidance learning by the patient is best described as
a. Not used for understanding neurotic behavior
b. Acts out his conflicts by aberrant behavior
c. The ego retains its reality-testing functions
d. Acquired from negative reinforcement
d. Acquired from negative reinforcement
In comparing the hebephrenic type with catatonic type of schizophrenic reaction the former includes
a. More frequent hallucination
b. Less frequent regression
c. No dissociation between affect and identical content
d. Very aggressive and destructive behavior
b. Less frequent regression
A psychotic reaction in which there is severe disturbance in affect so that the moods of the individual may swing between hyperactivity and hypoactivity is called
a. Schizophrenic reaction
b. Paranoid reaction
c. Involutional psychotic reaction
d. Manic-depressive reaction
d. Manic-depressive reaction
Klinefelter’s syndrome is characterized by
a. Male with multiple X chromosomes
b. Female with multiple X chromosomes
c. Female with less than two X chromosomes
d. Male with no X chromosomes
a. Male with multiple X chromosomes
Which of the following defense mechanisms is utilized by a paranoid patient?
Sublimation
Projection
Regression
Rationalization
Projection
All of the following are characteristics of a dependent personality EXCEPT
a. Physically deficient
b. Emotional responses below par
c. Unable to see a problem through to a successful conclusion
d. Show poor judgment
a. Physically deficient
All of the following are classified as personality pattern disturbances EXCEPT
a. Inadequate personality
b. Schizoid personality
c. Paranoid personality
d. Emotionally unstable personality
d. Emotionally unstable personality
Which of the following is characteristic of the paranoid personality?
a. Wide mood swings from elation to depression
b. Tendency for suspicion of the motivation of others
c. Extremely childish
d. Distortion in the passive and aggressive elements of the personality
b. Tendency for suspicion of the motivation of others
Which of the following statements is NOT applicable to the defense mechanism of rationalization?
a. It is one of the most common defense mechanisms used by the ego
b. It is used to a certain extent by nearly everyone
c. This mechanism helps prevent distress from developing within the ego
d. The original affect for one object is transferred to another object
d. The original affect for one object is transferred to another object
Which defense mechanism is being used by the ego when it reverts from a present level of psychosexual adjustment to a former more infantile level?
Isolation
Undoing
Regression
Displacement
Regression
The defense mechanism that unconsciously transfers normal body movements to abnormal is called
Conversion
Rationalization
Regression
Isolation
Conversion
All of the following statements are relevant to a neurosis or neurotic illness EXCEPT
a. Less severe than a psychosis
b. Thinking processes may be impaired
c. Judgment is impaired
d. Regressive behavior and attitudes
d. Regressive behavior and attitudes
All of the following etiological processes apply to the acute brain syndrome EXCEPT
Cerebral thrombosis
Cardiac failure
Cerebral embolism
Cerebral arteriosclerosis
Cerebral arteriosclerosis
All of the following statements apply to schizophrenia EXCEPT
a. Usually begins at about middle age
b. There is a break with reality
c. The onset may be sudden or it may be gradual
d. Unconscious material is no longer repressed by the ego
a. Usually begins at about middle age
In comparing hypomania to the manic syndrome, the former
a. Is more severe
b. The disturbance is personality function is more marked
c. Is outgoing, flamboyant, reckless, and impulsive
d. There is more of a tendency for suicide
c. Is outgoing, flamboyant, reckless, and impulsive
All of the following statements describe a compulsive personality EXCEPT:
a. There is a lack of overt obsessions or compulsions
b. The individual is a perfectionist
c. There is general rigidity of the personality
d. Tend to be suspicious of the motivation of others
d. Tend to be suspicious of the motivation of others
Conditioned response or respondent conditioning is the result of
Discrimination
Operant
Regression
Reinforcement
Reinforcement
Operant conditioning is a process in which the behavior is
Introjected
Denied
Strengthened
Isolated
Strengthened
The defense mechanism of reaction formation is quite closely related to
Undoing
Sublimation
Projection
Rationalization
Undoing
In considering petit mal disorders and similar psychomotor types, both have
a. The so-called aura
b. Brief duration
c. A tonic phase followed by a clonic phases
d. Amnesia for whatever occurred during the seizure
d. Amnesia for whatever occurred during the seizure
Which of the following is characteristic of a sensory disturbance developing as a conversion reaction?
a. Gradual onset
b. Stocking-like distribution over an extremity
c. A pattern of anesthesia following dermatome distribution
d. Produce no line of demarcation
b. Stocking-like distribution over an extremity
Which of the following personality disorders is LESS incapacitating to the individual’s adjustment?
Inadequate personality
Cyclothymic personality
Paranoid personality
Compulsive personality
Compulsive personality
Which of the following conditions may lead to extreme violence in which maniacal crimes may be committed
Grand mal epilepsy
Petit mal epilepsy
Psychomotor equivalent
Manic-depressive psychosis, manic phase
Psychomotor equivalent
Which of the following drugs assists schizophrenic individuals to function more effectively?
Lithium Carbonate
Methylphenidate
Nortriptyline
Fluphenazine enanthate
Fluphenazine enanthate
The difference between schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorders is
Age at onset
Duration of illness
Nature of symptoms
Absence of stress
Duration of illness
Purposeful forgetting of internal urgings or external events which would be painful for the ego is an example of
Sublimation
Projection
Rationalization
Repression
Repression
An individual with symptoms of delusion for the past 8 months probably can be diagnosed as
Acute paranoid
Folie a deux
Paranoia
Schizophrenia
Paranoia
The most frequent type of schizophrenic disorder admitted to the hospital is
Catatonic
Paranoid
Autistic
Hebephrenic
Paranoid
The triad of wernicke’s syndrome includes all of the following EXCEPT
Clouded consciousness
Ophthalmoplegia
Amnesia
Ataxia
Amnesia
The triad described by Korsakoff included all of the following EXCEPT
Amnesia
Confabulation
Ataxia
Peripheral neuropathy
Ataxia
A psychoneurosis characterized by the presence of one or more unexplained, severe, or unrealistic fears is called
Dissociative reaction
Conversion reaction
Obsessive-compulsive reaction
‘Phobic reaction
‘Phobic reaction
A condition of pathological overeating is called
Porphyria
Dysphagia
Enuresis bulimia
Binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder
Tourette’s disorder is characterized by
Barks, grunts, or snorts
Bed wetting
Sleep walking and terrors
Encopresis and colic
Barks, grunts, or snorts
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder that causes
Severe vomiting
Severe weight gain
Severe weight loss
Severe diarrhea
Severe weight loss
A condition which, if untreated, results in mental retardation is
Pavor nocturnus
Phenylketonuria
Folie a deux
Pick’s disease
Phenylketonuria
The ego
a. Exists at birth
b. Is undifferentiated as far as psyche structure is concerned
c. Assumes control of conscious activity
d. Is absorbed in the unconscious soon after birth
c. Assumes control of conscious activity
That portion of the personality termed the superego is
a. Unconscious in its entirety
b. The reservoir of instincts
c. The intermediary between the unconscious and the outside world
d. The individual censorship mechanism between right and wrong
d. The individual censorship mechanism between right and wrong
The chief mechanism whereby the superego enforces its demands upon the psyche is in the production of
Somatic illness
Anxiety
Guilt
Fear
Guilt
Which of the following symptoms is basic to every type of psychoneurosis?
Hysteria
Anxiety
Some type of somatic disturbance
Amnesia
Anxiety
Personality disorders of children include all of the following EXCEPT
Chronic aggressive reaction
Juvenile delinquency
Passive-aggressive reaction
Anxiety reaction
Anxiety reaction
Briquet’s disease is a form of
Hypochondria
Hallucination
Hebephrenia
Hysteria
Hysteria
Which is a characteristic of a dysthymic disorder?
a. Recurrent, mild moods of hypomania and depression
b. Poor response to psychotherapy
c. Absence of psychomotor symptoms
d. Chronic severe depression
d. Chronic severe depression
Which of the following statements is true of uncomplicated bereavement?
Individuals affected consider it normal
It involves guilt feelings
It varies in duration by individual
All of the above
All of the above
Characteristics of the cyclothymic personality include
a. Wide mood swings from elation to depression
b. Tendency of suspicion of the motivation of everyone
c. Extremely childish behavior
d. Distortion in the passive and aggressive elements of personality
a. Wide mood swings from elation to depression
Which of the following best describes tardive dyskinesia?
a. Misdiagnosed as psychomotor retardation
b. Persistent involuntary abnormal movements
c. Complication of lithium
d. Best treated with anticholinergic medication
Persistent involuntary abnormal movements
Which of the following conditions are diagnosed more often in men than in women?
Nutritional disorders
Mineral disorders
Affective disorders
Antisocial personality
Antisocial personality
All of the following are childhood adolescent adjustment disorders EXCEPT
Enuresis
Paranoid delusions
Pica
Nightmares
Paranoid delusions
The most common drug used by American teenagers is
Heroin
Marijuana
Alcohol
Speed
Alcohol
After the first episode of schizophreniform disorder a patient usually experiences
Stages of exuberance
Paranoid reaction
Depression
Somatization disorder
Depression
A defense mechanism by society as a whole which diverts unacceptable drives into socially acceptable channels is known as
Substitution
Rationalization
Sublimation
Incorporation
Sublimation
A psychotic patient is under the delusion that a certain part of his body is nonexistent. The term used to describe this condition is
Narcolepsy
Neologism
Nihilism
Autism
Nihilism
A schizophrenic patient used stereotyped meaningless repetition of words. This is known as
Perseveration
Neologism
Narcolepsy
Verbigeration
Verbigeration
Dysphagia is a term used to describe
a. Difficult or painful swallowing
b. Impaired or difficult speech
c. A person with disturbed orientation with respect to time, space, or place
d. A congenital defect of the spinal cord
a. Difficult or painful swallowing
Which of the following terms is used as a defense mechanism associated with depression?
Delusion
Denial Introjection
Dependency
Dependency
Which of the following terms is used to describe the condition of a person who is unable to produce normal speech sounds?
Asthenia
Autism
Aphonia
Ataractic
Aphonia
An acute or chronic brain syndrome is characterized by impairment of all the following components EXCEPT
Memory
Intellectual functions
Judgment
Speech
Speech
A person with an organic brain disorder is unable to recognize familiar objects through visual, auditory, or somesthetic impressions and to interpret their significance. The term used to describe this condition in general is
Aphasia
Agnosia
Apraxia
Aphonia
Agnosia
A stroke patient is unable to talk to name common objects, or to formulate words because of brain damage. This condition is termed
Aphasia
Agnosia
Apraxia
Akathisia
Aphasia
Defense mechanisms are used to resolve emotional conflict. All of the following are common defense mechanisms EXCEPT
Compensation
Identification
Projection
Depression
Depression
A syndrome that is affected by the use of drugs is
Hypnagogic imagery
Hypesthesia
Iatrogenic
Oligophrenia
Iatrogenic
A pathological preoccupation or morbid compulsion involving alcoholic beverages is called
Ergomania
Dipsomania
Nymphomania
Megalomania
Dipsomania
Frequently in schizophrenia, a person may coin a new word or condense a combination of words that expresses a complex meaning related to his conflicts. These words or phrases are not readily understood by anyone else and are termed a
Neologism
Nihilism
Voyeurism
Narcissism
Neologism
The term used to describe a condition of uncontrollable, excessive talking is
Libido
Logorrhea
Iatrogenic illness fugue
Logorrhea
About 25% of all first admissions to mental hospitals are classified as
Paranoid reaction
Schizophrenic reaction
Manic-depressive reaction
Involutional psychotic reaction
Schizophrenic reaction
Approximately what percentage of patients in mental hospitals have a diagnosis of schizophrenia?
10% or less
10%-20%
20%-30%
40%-50%
40%-50%
