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Abnormal Psychology Exam # 2

A neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by stereotyped movements and repetitious behaviors, but without language or social deficits.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Stereotypic Movement Disorder

Speech Sound Disorder

A provisional diagnosis given when a child under the age of 5 years old shows signs of intellectual disability, but who cannot be accurately tested due to their age.

Intellectual Disability

Global Developmental Delay

Rhett's Disorder

A specific learning disorder characterized by difficulties in reading.

Dyslexia

Dyscalculia

Dysgraphia

A disorder formerly known as “Schizophrenia, with Childhood Onset,” formally recognized in the DSM-III (1980).

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

A disorder, now considered part of the Autism Spectrum, which was recognized as an independent disorder until the publication of the DSM-5.

Autism Spetrum Disorder

Asperger's Disorder

Tourette's Disorder

A long-term disorder characterized by lack of focus, impulsivity, fidgeting, and difficulty concentrating, originating in childhood.

ADHD

Delirium

Neurocognitive Disorder due to Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder can be diagnosed as which of the following?

Primarily with bizarre content

primarily inattentive or primarily hyperactive

with psychotic features

Neurocognitive disorders differ from neurodevelopmental disorders because:

they are progressive and emerge in older individuals

they occur in childhood as missed milestones

they are not based on neurological dysfunction

A neurocognitive disorder which is presumed to have a genetic cause is

Neurocognitive Disorder due to Traumatic Brain Injury

Neurocognitive Disorder due to Huntington's Disease

Neurocognitive Disorder due to Substance Use

The accumulation of plaques in the brain, causing loss of memory and associated with age, is neurocognitive disorder due to

Parkinson's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease

Traumatic Brain Injury

A disorder characterized by lack of focus, difficulty concentrating, confusion, and fluctuating mental status.

ADHD

Delirium

Huntington's Disease

Which domains are evaluated when diagnosing Intellectual Disability?

Social, Cognitive, Behavioral

Social, Conceptual, Practical

Motor, Sensory, Peripheral

An “unspecified” diagnosis is given when

the doctor is unable to accurately assess symptoms due to the age of the patient or the lack of adequate testing.

The patient's symptoms are too mild to fully qualify for a full diagnosis.

The patient's symptoms are too inconcistent to qualify for a fully diagnosis.

A “not otherwise specified” diagnosis is given when

the doctor is unable to accurately assess symptoms due to the age of the patient or the lack of adequate testing.

The patient's symptoms are too mild to fully qualify for a full diagnosis.

The patient's symptoms are too inconcistent to qualify for a fully diagnosis.

A motor disorder characterized by both vocal and motor tics is

Mixed Connective Tic Disorder

Tourette's Disorder

Vocal Tic Disorder

A disorder characterized by the presence of beliefs which are both (a) persistent, despite proof that they are wrong and (b) create disruptions in the patients' lives, but without the presence of any hallucinations.

Schizophrenia

Delusional Disorder

Schizoaffective Disorder

Which is an example of a delusion “with bizarre content”?

Believing that people are generally untrustworthy and worthy of suspicion

Believing that you have a serious illness because you have serious symptoms

Believing that your organs have been harvested by thieves despite the absence of any scars

Which diagnosis fits a pattern of delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking which lasts for four months?

Schizoaffective Disorder

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Schizophreniform Disorder

Which diagnosis fits a pattern of delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking which lasts for less than one month?

Schizoaffective Disorder

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Schizophreniform Disorder

How do we distinguish between a Bipolar I disorder with psychotic features, and schizoaffective disorder?

In Bipolar I, the manic phase occurs whether or not there is currently psychosis

In Schizoaffective disorder, the manic phase occurs whether or not there is currently psychosis

In Bipolar I, the hallucinations are the consistent symptom, and the mood disturbance is intermittent

How do we differentiate between Schizophrenia with disorganized thought and speech, and Autism Spectrum Disorder with similar behaviors?

Autism occurs with early childhood onset, while schizophrenia most often occurs later

Autism Spectrum Disorders never involve disorganized thought or speech

Schizophrenia does not involve hallucinations or catatonic states.

How do we differentiate between Schizoaffective Disorder and Schizophrenia with manic or depressed features?

In Schizoaffective disorder, the symptoms of mania or depression are intermittent, but still a key feature of the client's symptoms

In Schizoaffective disorder, the symptoms of mania or depression are infrequent and not characteristic of the disorder as a whole

In Schizophrenia, mania and depression are near-constant occurrences.

Which kind of mood disorder involves periods of mania interposed by periods of depressed mood?

Bipolar I Disorder

Bipolar II Disorder

Cyclothymic Disorder

Which kind of mood disorder is characterized by periods of major depressive episodes interrupted by hypomanic symptoms?

Bipolar I Disorder

Bipolar II Disorder

Cyclothymic Disorder

What diagnosis might fit a person whose personality is described as “moody” and “inconsistent,” but who lacks full manic or depressive symptoms?

Bipolar I Disorder

Bipolar II Disorder

Cyclothymic Disorder

What feature is a key characteristic, common to all mood disorders?

Depressed mood

Mood swings independent of life events

Full Manic Episodes

A pattern of extremely reactive moods characterized by anger, frustration, and disproportionate lashing-out which would be age-appropriate for toddlers, but which is pathological in adults.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Childhood Disintegrative Disorder

Excessive grieving can now be diagnosed as a variety of depression.

True

False

Depression which has its onset either before or immediately after giving birth is called

peripartum

pre-partum

post-partum

Dysthymia, a long-term experience of mild depressive symptoms, is now called

persistent dysphoric disorder

persistent depressive disorder

long-term dysphoric disorder

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