PSYCH QUIZ SAMPLEX 1/18

A 16 year old female blushes, stammers and feel completely foolish when one of her classmates or her teacher asks her a question, she may be suffering from:
a. Generalized anxiety disorder
b. Social phobia
c. Specific phobia
d. Agoraphobia

b. Social phobia

The obsessive-compulsive patient who tries to resist carrying out the compulsion generally experiences:
a. Anxiety
b. Ambivalence
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Dissociation

a. Anxiety

A firefighter who has demonstrated great courage on more than one occasion while on duty is afraid of needles:
a. Hypochondriasis
b. PTSD
c. Panic disorder
d. Specific phobia

d. Specific phobia

The most characteristic behavioral feature in patients with conversion disorder is:
a. La belle indifference
b. Autonomic dysfunction
c. Sensory disturbance
d. Somatic compliance

a. La belle indifference

An adolescent who was diagnosed with trichotillomania, may be benefited with the following medication:
a. Lithium carbonate
b. Clomipramine
c. Carbamazepine

b. Clomipramine

The patient who has generalized anxiety disorder may be given this drug of choice:
a. Risperidone
b. Phenelzine
c. Fluoxetine
d. Clonazepam

c. Fluoxetine

Skin-picking disorder is similar to OCD:
a. True
b. False

a. True

63% of patients with imagined defects in body dysmorphic disorder is found in:
a. Skin
b. Hair
c. Nose
d. Lips

c. Nose

Patients who have the highest incidence of panic disorder secondary to a medical condition is found in those with:
a. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
b. Cardiomyopathy
c. Biliary cirrhosis
d. Parkinson's disease

a. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Fear of dogs is referred to as:
a. Cynophobia
b. Ailuophobia
c. Mysophobia
d. Zoophobia

a. Cynophobia

An important risk factor for PTSD is:
a. Being male
b. Proximity to exposure of the trauma
c. A medical condition
d. A familial pattern

b. Proximity to exposure of the trauma

The use of antianxiety medications has always been useful in the treatment of patients with adjustment disorder:
a. False
b. True

a. False

After his parents separated 2 months ago, this 12-year-old boy started to paint the walls of his school with graffiti:
a. Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct
b. Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
c. Adjustment disorder unspecified
d. Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct

a. Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct

In a patient with skin-picking disorder, an approach to treatment would be:
a. An opioid antagonist
b. A mood stabilizer
c. Insight-oriented psychotherapy
d. An antipsychotic

a. An opioid antagonist

“All of a sudden I was talking but it didn't feel like it was me.”
a. Derealization
b. Depersonalization
c. Dissociative fugue
d. Dissociative identity disorder

b. Depersonalization

The patient went on an unexpected travel away from his home in Batangas and reached Baguio and was noted to have confusion about his personal identity and when asked he gave a different name other than his name.
a. Dissociative amnesia
b. Derealization
c. Dissociative trance disorder
d. Depersonalization

a. Dissociative amnesia

A soldier exposed to combat in Marawi suffering from PTSD would show:
a. Low plasma β-endorphin concentrations
b. Low urine catecholamine concentrations
c. Hypoactive HPA axis
d. High plasma β-endorphin concentrations

d. High plasma β-endorphin concentrations

Which of the following is true regarding a phobic disorder?
a. It involves loss of identity
b. It results in antisocial behavior
c. It is an irrational fear that is not changed by logic
d. It involves repetitious actions

c. It is an irrational fear that is not changed by logic

A 30-year-old patient during her therapy recalled having been sexually abused although the abuse never really happened but she believes it to be true and react accordingly, she might be having:
a. Been brainwashed
b. Abreaction
c. Dissociative trance disorder
d. False memory syndrome

d. False memory syndrome

The patient exhibited anxiety and depressed mood after a transfer to another school and you diagnosed him to have an adjustment disorder when the duration of his symptoms is:
a. Less than 6 months
b. Within 2 weeks
c. Within 3 months
d. After 3 months

c. Within 3 months