Psychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: According to the CAM diagnostic algorithm, which features should be present so that delirium can be diagnosed ? _____

Answer: features 1 and 2 along with either 3 or 4

Flashcard 2: Rorschach's inkblot test, is a projective personality test that focuses on the _____ aspects of personality.

Answer: unconscious

Flashcard 3: _____ is the most crucial factor in art of interviewing

Answer: building of rapport

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Flashcard 4: IQ >_____ is classified as genius

Answer: 140

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Answer: world suicide prevention day

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Answer: mental retardation classification

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Flashcard 7: mental retardation is now called as _____

Answer: intellectual disability

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Flashcard 8: memory and learning disorders are now called as _____

Answer: neuro cognitive disorders

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Answer: mental retardation classification

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Flashcard 10: _____ scale is best for adult IQ

Answer: weschsler's adult IQ

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Flashcard 11: _____ (dementia or delirium) is associated with a diffuse, slowing pattern on EEG

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 12: Patients with _____ mental disability have a mental age of 3 years

Answer: profound

Flashcard 13: What is the order in which loss of orientation to person, place, and time occurs? _____ -> place -> person

Answer: Time

Flashcard 14: _____ is a gender identity disorder whereas fetishistic transvestism is a paraphilia.  (Psychiatry)

Answer: Transvestism

Flashcard 15: _____ law states that during incidents of retrograde amnesia recent memories are more likely to be lost than remote memories.

Answer: Ribot's

Flashcard 16: _____ hallucinations are more commonly a feature of psychiatric illness than medical illness (psychiatric or medical)

Answer: Auditory

Flashcard 17: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) is an objective personality test which has _____ scales and validity scales

Answer: clinical

Flashcard 18: The individual should be at least _____ years of age or at least 5 years older than the child to diagnose pedophilic disorder

Answer: 16

Flashcard 19: In _____, the patient is conscious and will not respond to environment (harsh sounds, bright light) and will respond to painful stimulus

Answer: Stupor

Flashcard 20: Patients with _____ mental disability can be educated till 6th class

Answer: mild

Flashcard 21: _____ hallucinations are more commonly a feature of medical illness than psychiatric illness (psychiatric or medical)

Answer: Visual

Flashcard 22: Immediate recall is usually tested by _____ test, and should be stopped when there are 2 successive failures

Answer: digit span / digit repetition

Flashcard 23: The risk factors for suicide completion may be remembered with the mnemonic "SAD PERSONS": S: Sex (_____)A: Age (teenage or elderly)D: DepressionP: Previous attempt (highest risk factor)E: Ethanol or drug useR: Rational thinking impaired (psychosis)S: Sickness (medical illness)O: Organized planN: No spouse or other social supportS: Stated future intent

Answer: male

Flashcard 24: _____ is when a patient consciously fakes, profoundly exaggerates, or claims to have a disorder in order to attain a secondary (external) gain (e.g. avoid work, obtain compensation)

Answer: Malingering

Flashcard 25: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE, also known as _____ test) is a score out of 30 and is used to measure cognitive impairment.

Answer: Folstein's

Flashcard 26: _____ is when the person gives an answer that is wrong, but very similar to the actual answer to the question seen in Ganser syndrome

Answer: Vorbeireden

Flashcard 27: The _____ disorder manifests as discrete episodes of losing control of aggressive impulses.

Answer: intermittent explosive

Flashcard 28: Patients with _____ mental disability require continuous supervision and care, along with life support

Answer: profound (level)

Flashcard 29: In pseudologia fantastica, limited factual material is mixed with extensive and colourful fantasies, and is seen in _____

Answer: munchausen syndrome/factitious disorder

Flashcard 30: Halstead Reitan test is a _____ test and is used to detect and localize brain lesions and determine their effects.

Answer: neuropsychological

Flashcard 31: According to Mental Health Act 1987, for the diagnosis of mental illness, an individual can be kept in a psychiatric hospital for _____ days

Answer: 10

Flashcard 32: Brief somatic symptom disorder is when duration of symptoms is less than _____ months

Answer: 6

Flashcard 33: Sentence completion test is a projective personality test used to identify worries and problems using _____ associations

Answer: verbal

Flashcard 34: Pyromania and kleptomania are classified under _____ disorders in DSM-5

Answer: disruptive, impulse control and conduct

Flashcard 35: _____ is defined as any intense and persistent sexual interest other than genital stimulation or fondling with normal, physically mature, consenting human partners.

Answer: Paraphilia

Flashcard 36: Suicidal _____ is making a plan to commit suicide

Answer: plan

Flashcard 37: Hypersexuality in a male is referred to as _____

Answer: satyriasis

Flashcard 38: Protective reflexes such as blepharospasm are seen in _____ stupor

Answer: psychogenic

Flashcard 39: In digit backward test, normally a person can repeat upto _____ digits (+/- 2)

Answer: 5

Flashcard 40: Awareness of being sick, but is attributed to external or physical factors is graded _____ on the insight scale

Answer: 3

Flashcard 41: _____ is the inability to recognize and describe feelings.

Answer: Alexithymia

Flashcard 42: _____ is the inability to make a decision generally

Answer: Abulia

Flashcard 43: Akinetic mutism is a feature of _____.

Answer: Stupor

Flashcard 44: According to the CAM diagnostic algorithm, which features should be present so that delirium can be diagnosed ?_____

Answer: features 1 and 2 along with either 3 or 4

Flashcard 45: Delusion is a disturbance of _____.

Answer: thought content

Flashcard 46: Delirium usually has an _____ onset

Answer: acute (acute/chronic)

Flashcard 47: In digit forward test, normally a person can repeat upto _____ digits (+/- 2)

Answer: 7

Flashcard 48: According to the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-5 (SBS-5), a person with an IQ of _____ is considered as high average

Answer: 110-119

Flashcard 49: For adolescents 17 years and older and for adults, only _____ symptoms, rather than 6 (for children) are required for diagnosing ADHD

Answer: 5

Flashcard 50: _____ is a feature of catatonia where the subjects involuntary resist passive movements and the resistance is directly proportional to the force applied.

Answer: Gegenhalten

Flashcard 51: Intermittent explosive disorder are classified under _____ disorders in DSM-5

Answer: disruptive, impulse control and conduct

Flashcard 52: Moderate intellectual disability is an IQ of _____

Answer: 35-49

Flashcard 53: According to the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-5 (SBS-5), a person with an IQ of _____ is considered as moderately delayed

Answer: 40-54

Flashcard 54: Affect is said to be _____ when emotional responses do not match with the social situation one is in

Answer: inappropriate

Flashcard 55: _____ interference occurs when initial act of recalling particular information interferes with the retrieval of the original information

Answer: Output

Flashcard 56: Resistance to eye opening is seen in _____ stupor

Answer: psychogenic

Flashcard 57: _____ is spontaneous and active maintenance of a posture against gravity and is a feature of catatonia

Answer: Posturing

Flashcard 58: In gaming disorder, abnormal gaming behaviour should be in evidence over a period of at least _____ months for a diagnosis to be assigned

Answer: 12

Flashcard 59: According to the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-5 (SBS-5), a person with an IQ of _____ is considered as average

Answer: 90-109

Flashcard 60: Akinetic mutism is a feature of _____

Answer: Stupor

Flashcard 61: Judgement is normal in _____

Answer: neurosis (psychosis/neurosis)

Flashcard 62: Pseudohallucinations _____ be recognized as unreal

Answer: can (can/cannot)

Flashcard 63: Suicidal _____ is nonspecific, occasional thought to end one's life

Answer: ideation

Flashcard 64: Low dose Amytal increases stupor and neurological signs in _____ stupor

Answer: organic

Flashcard 65: Posturing is typically seen in _____ stupor

Answer: psychogenic

Flashcard 66: Suicidal _____ is intense and persistent thought to serve as the agent of one's own death, but without a plan in mind

Answer: intent

Flashcard 67: The maximum period of voluntary self-admission is _____ days.

Answer: 30

Flashcard 68: Derailment is a _____ thought disorder.

Answer: formal

Flashcard 69: _____ is an intelligence test that can be administered from 11 to 85 years of age

Answer: Kaufman adolescent and adult intelligence test

Flashcard 70: _____ judgment is assessed by asking the patient what he would do in hypothetical situations

Answer: Test

Flashcard 71: Patients with _____ mental disability are successful and can do skilled and semiskilled work, independently without supervision

Answer: mild (level)

Flashcard 72: Neologism is a disorder of thought _____

Answer: form

Flashcard 73: Under DSM-5, _____ behaviour (conceptual, social, and practical skills) is considered more significant than calculated IQ level for determining severity of intellectual disability

Answer: adaptive

Flashcard 74: An OKN response elicited in a person who feigns visual loss indicates that visual input is present and is a _____.

Answer: malingerer

Flashcard 75: _____ is an intelligence test that can be administered to children from 3 to 6 years of age

Answer: Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence

Flashcard 76: _____ is an intelligence test that can be administered to children from 6 to 16 years of age

Answer: Wechsler intelligence test for children

Flashcard 77: Affect is said to be _____ when emotional responses do not match with the thought content of the person

Answer: incongruent

Flashcard 78: _____ Intelligence Scale, fourth edition is an intelligence test that can be administered to children starting 2 years of age

Answer: Stanford-Binet

Flashcard 79: _____ refers to the unconscious filling of gaps in memory with inaccurate, fabricated, and often implausible information.

Answer: Confabulation

Flashcard 80: Insight is characteristically present in _____

Answer: neurosis (psychosis/neurosis)

Flashcard 81: According to the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-5 (SBS-5), a person with an IQ of _____ is considered as gifted or very advanced

Answer: 130-144

Flashcard 82: Lombard's test is used to test for _____

Answer: malingering

Flashcard 83: _____ judgment is the ability to perceive social situations and act accordingly.

Answer: Social

Flashcard 84: _____ are a type of mental image that are vivid and clear but lacking the substiatiality of perceptions.

Answer: Pseudohallucinations

Flashcard 85: _____ are people who feel they are in between two genders, or of neither gender

Answer: Genderqueers

Flashcard 86: High dose Amytal increases alertness in _____ stupor

Answer: psychogenic

Flashcard 87: Affect is said to be _____ when there is excessive variation in emotions without any apparent reason

Answer: labile

Flashcard 88: The _____ is used for measuring and quantifying disability in mental illnesses.

Answer: IDEAS (scale)

Flashcard 89: Patients with _____ mental disability cannot be educated (are dependent) but can do simple tasks under supervision

Answer: severe (level)

Flashcard 90: _____ is a disorder of perception where the person feels that one's environment has changed in some strange way that is difficult to describe.

Answer: Derealization

Flashcard 91: Severe intellectual disability is an IQ of _____

Answer: 20-34

Flashcard 92: Intellectual insight i.e. awareness of being ill, and that the symptoms are due to own particular irrational feelings and thoughts is graded _____ on the insight scale

Answer: 4

Flashcard 93: Score less than _____ on MMSE is considered as impaired cognition.

Answer: 24

Flashcard 94: Patients with _____ mental disability are trainable and can do unskilled and semiskilled work under supervision

Answer: moderate (level)

Flashcard 95: _____ is a paraphilia characterized by a strong preference or sexual arousal from partners with body modifications such as tattoos, piercings, scars, or other marks.

Answer: Stigmatophilia

Flashcard 96: Voyeurism is also known as _____

Answer: Scoptophilia