Question

QUESTION 1

1. June has never met Donald Trump but she believes that he is her daughter's father.  She has told this to her family and friends. June is likely experiencing:

   	a.	An Erotamatic fantasy
   	b.	Deceptive disorder
   	c.	Delusions
   	d.	Hallucinations

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QUESTION 2

1. Jerome has gone to see his doctor.  He is worried there is something wrong with him because last week he was having sex with his girlfriend and he ejaculated before she was able to orgasm. This has never happened to him before. Jerome's doctor tells him:

   	a.	That he has hypersexual arousal disorder
   	b.	That he has premature ejaculation disorder
   	c.	That he should be tested for male sexual aversion disorder
   	d.	Not to worry - this happens to most men at some point in their lives.

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QUESTION 3

1. In the DSM-5 conduct disorder now has specifiers. If you give a diagnosis of conduct disorder you also need to specify:

   		The gender of the child
   		Whether it is genetic or environmental
   		The age of onset
   		Whether there are psychopathic features

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QUESTION 4

1. ADHD has been attributed to some biological factors including:

   	a.	Maternal gestational diabilities
   	b.	Deficits in the left parietal lobe
   	c.	Allergies to gluten
   	d.	Abnormal functioning of the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine

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QUESTION 5

1. Justice is a computer programmer who works remotely from home.  The less contact with people he has the better as far as he is concerned. His family keeps trying to get him to come to events but he just wants to stay in his apartment. He has no interest in dating and wishes people would just leave him alone. He has a nosy neighbor that keeps telling him to "smile" if he ever leaves his apartment. According to the DSM-5 Justice could be diagnosed with:

   	a.	Schizotypal Personality Disorder
   	b.	Avoidant Personality Disorder
   	c.	Nothing - he just likes to be by himself
   	d.	Schizoid Personality Disorder

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QUESTION 6

1. Rebecca is a sweet little girl but her parents are worried that there is something wrong. She gets very upset if routines are not followed and they have noticed that she likes spinning around. She often avoids eye contact and is not particularly interested in other children. She was late to speak and still often refers to herself in the third person. They mentioned their concerns to their pediatrician. She thinks Rebecca may meet diagnostic criteria for:

   	a.	ADHD
   	b.	Autism Spectrum Disorder
   	c.	Social Anxiety Disorder
   	d.	Asperger's Disorder

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QUESTION 7

1. Steven is a lovely young boy and his mother hates to complain about him. But he is incredibly absent minded. He always forgets his homework at school and they are already on the 6th set of hats and mitts this winter as he keeps losing them. His IQ has been found to be in the near gifted range but he does poorly on tests because he makes careless mistakes or he fails to read the details closely enough. Steve's mom often has to repeat herself as he appears zoned out and he has a hard time sitting at tasks or activities for more than 30 minutes as he loses focus. Steven's counselor at school has recommended to his parents that he be assessed as she think he meets diagnostic criteria for:

   	a.	Autism Spectrum Disorder
   	b.	ADHD combined type
   	c.	ADHD inattentive type
   	d.	Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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QUESTION 8

1. Zora likes things a certain way. She has fired multiple housekeepers because no one could meet her exacting standards of cleanliness and order. She is very focused on being the best and she doesn't support fools easily. She can't maintain romantic relationships because she feels that her partners cannot live up to her expectations.  According to the DSM-5 Zora could be diagnosed with:

   	a.	Narcissistic Personality Disorder
   	b.	Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
   	c.	Generalized Anxiety Disorder
   	d.	Borderline Personality Disorder

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QUESTION 9

1. Hector is currently serving a 10 year sentence for rape.  This is not his first time in prison as he was arrested and sent to juvenile detention in his youth for assault and drug crimes and prior to the rape charge he had served a 6 year prison sentence for attempted murder. The psychiatrist at the prison also works for a university and he wants to do a study of offenders' brains to see if there are physiological differnces between those who end up in prison and those who do not. If you scans Hector's brain he will likely find abnormality in the following area:

   	a.	Prefrontal cortex
   	b.	Brocca's area
   	c.	Cingulate gyrus
   	d.	Visual cortex

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QUESTION 10

1. Annie often wakes up screaming in the middle of the night and her doctor thinks she has sleep terror disorder. Which of the following is true of sleep terror disorder?

   	a.	It results in memorable dreams.
   	b.	It is the same as nightmare disorders.
   	c.	It occurs during REM sleep.
   	d.	It occurs most often in children.

Answer 1

1.June has delusion since hallucinations are experiencing stimulus even in its absence,there is no disorder called deceptive disorder in dsm 5 or any psychological texts,erotamtic fantasy is linked with sexual behaviour

2.The answer is option C since hypersexual disorder deals with hyper active sexual activities,premature ejaculation is something which happens everytime in this case this happened only once and sexual aversion disorder is lack of interest to sexual activities

3.The answer is option C as DSM 5 states that conduct disorder occurs after the age of 17 before that it is called O.D.D

4.Option D is the write answer as Dopamine deficiency has been linked with ADHD

5.Jerome has schizoid personality disorder as he has a lack of interest in forming interpersonal relationships whereas in schizotypal personality disorder the person would have oddities in interactions which leads to problem in interpersonal communication and in avoidant personality disorder a person wants to form relationship but can because of anxiety and in Asperger disorder person has difficulty in communication and the person would have high intellectual capacity

6.Rebecca has autism spectrum disorder has her symptoms align with the criteria told in dsm 5

7.Steven has ADHD combined type which is different from ADHD inattentive where a person wont necessarily loose items

8.Zora has narcissistic personality disorder as he sees ohters as being inferior to her

9.Hector has abnormalities in prefrontal cortex

10.it occurs most often in children