PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH UPDATED EXAMS
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔This Freudian Psychosexual Stage is characterized by vanity, self-obsession, sexual
anxiety, inadequacy, inferiority and envy - ✔✔Phallic
✔✔This is the term for when a patient overidentifies with their provider -
✔✔Trasnsference
✔✔This is the term for when a provider overidentifies with patient -
✔✔Countertransference
✔✔This term describes when someone is avoiding awareness of a painful reality by
negtaing/ ignoring sensory data - ✔✔Denial
✔✔This term describes offering perceived logical explanations or reasons to justify
attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors that are unacceptable to the individual or those around
them - ✔✔Rationalization
✔✔This is shifting the emotional response or blame from one object or person to
another - ✔✔Displacement
,✔✔This is excessive use of facts and details to avoid expressing emotions -
✔✔Intellectualization
✔✔This is the blocking of conscious perception of feelings, thoughts or memories -
✔✔Repression
✔✔This a temporary character modification, which can be severe, to avoid emotional
distress - ✔✔Dissociation
✔✔This term describes transforming an unacceptable response to the opposite
response - ✔✔Reaction-formation
✔✔This is persistent, recurrent feelings of detachment from the body or body parts -
✔✔Depersonalization
✔✔This is defined as the totality of emotional, psychological and behavioral traits of a
person - ✔✔Personality
✔✔This condition contains rigid and unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and
behaving that is neurobiological in nature - ✔✔Personality Disorders
✔✔This cluster contains Paranoid, Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders -
✔✔Cluster A
✔✔This cluster contains Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic personality
disorders - ✔✔Cluster B
✔✔This cluster contains Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive-Compulsive personality
disorders - ✔✔Cluster C
✔✔Name the 4 common behaviors of Paranoid Personality Disorder - ✔✔1.
Suspiciousness
2. Accusing others of infidelity
3. Stealing
4. Watching people
✔✔This disorder is characterized by acting indifferently to praise or criticism and a
prefence for solitude - ✔✔Schizoid Personality Disorder
✔✔This disorder is characterized by difficulty developing relationships out of discomfort
or fear - ✔✔Schizotypal Personality Disorder
, ✔✔Name the 9 symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Failure to conform
to rules/regulations of society
2. Lying, conning, or using others for gain
3. Irritability
4. Aggressiveness
5. Impulsive, irresponsible, failure to plan ahead
6. Lack of remorse, no conscience
7. Risk-taking, puts others in danger
8. Frequent jail time
9. Substance misuse
✔✔Name 9 symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Unstable intense
relationships
2. Idealization or devaluation
3. Fear of abandonment
4. Unstable self-image or sense of self
5. Impulsivity (sex, drugs, reckless behavior, binging)
6. Chronic feelings of emptiness
7. Stress-related paranoid ideation, dissociation
8. Suicide gestures, threats of self-harm
9. Recurrent self-mutilating behaviors
✔✔Name 7 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. A grandiose sense of
self
2. Fantasy of power, beauty, success, or ideal love
3. A sense of entitlement
4. No empathy for others
5. Arrogance
6. Often takes advantage of others
7. Requires excessive admiration
✔✔Name 6 symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Need to be the center
of attention
2. Seductive/ provocative behavior to others
3. Dramatic, exaggerated and theatrical in interactions
4. Consider relationships as more than they actually are
5. Rapid mood and emotional shifts and shallow shows of emotions
6. Easily influenced by others
✔✔Name 4 symptoms of Dependent Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Need to be taken care
of; submissive, clinging, and/or dependent
2. Difficulty making everyday decisions; seek others to make decisions for them
3. Feel uncomfortable and helpless when alone
4. Fear of being able to care for themselves
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔This Freudian Psychosexual Stage is characterized by vanity, self-obsession, sexual
anxiety, inadequacy, inferiority and envy - ✔✔Phallic
✔✔This is the term for when a patient overidentifies with their provider -
✔✔Trasnsference
✔✔This is the term for when a provider overidentifies with patient -
✔✔Countertransference
✔✔This term describes when someone is avoiding awareness of a painful reality by
negtaing/ ignoring sensory data - ✔✔Denial
✔✔This term describes offering perceived logical explanations or reasons to justify
attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors that are unacceptable to the individual or those around
them - ✔✔Rationalization
✔✔This is shifting the emotional response or blame from one object or person to
another - ✔✔Displacement
,✔✔This is excessive use of facts and details to avoid expressing emotions -
✔✔Intellectualization
✔✔This is the blocking of conscious perception of feelings, thoughts or memories -
✔✔Repression
✔✔This a temporary character modification, which can be severe, to avoid emotional
distress - ✔✔Dissociation
✔✔This term describes transforming an unacceptable response to the opposite
response - ✔✔Reaction-formation
✔✔This is persistent, recurrent feelings of detachment from the body or body parts -
✔✔Depersonalization
✔✔This is defined as the totality of emotional, psychological and behavioral traits of a
person - ✔✔Personality
✔✔This condition contains rigid and unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and
behaving that is neurobiological in nature - ✔✔Personality Disorders
✔✔This cluster contains Paranoid, Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders -
✔✔Cluster A
✔✔This cluster contains Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic personality
disorders - ✔✔Cluster B
✔✔This cluster contains Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive-Compulsive personality
disorders - ✔✔Cluster C
✔✔Name the 4 common behaviors of Paranoid Personality Disorder - ✔✔1.
Suspiciousness
2. Accusing others of infidelity
3. Stealing
4. Watching people
✔✔This disorder is characterized by acting indifferently to praise or criticism and a
prefence for solitude - ✔✔Schizoid Personality Disorder
✔✔This disorder is characterized by difficulty developing relationships out of discomfort
or fear - ✔✔Schizotypal Personality Disorder
, ✔✔Name the 9 symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Failure to conform
to rules/regulations of society
2. Lying, conning, or using others for gain
3. Irritability
4. Aggressiveness
5. Impulsive, irresponsible, failure to plan ahead
6. Lack of remorse, no conscience
7. Risk-taking, puts others in danger
8. Frequent jail time
9. Substance misuse
✔✔Name 9 symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Unstable intense
relationships
2. Idealization or devaluation
3. Fear of abandonment
4. Unstable self-image or sense of self
5. Impulsivity (sex, drugs, reckless behavior, binging)
6. Chronic feelings of emptiness
7. Stress-related paranoid ideation, dissociation
8. Suicide gestures, threats of self-harm
9. Recurrent self-mutilating behaviors
✔✔Name 7 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. A grandiose sense of
self
2. Fantasy of power, beauty, success, or ideal love
3. A sense of entitlement
4. No empathy for others
5. Arrogance
6. Often takes advantage of others
7. Requires excessive admiration
✔✔Name 6 symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Need to be the center
of attention
2. Seductive/ provocative behavior to others
3. Dramatic, exaggerated and theatrical in interactions
4. Consider relationships as more than they actually are
5. Rapid mood and emotional shifts and shallow shows of emotions
6. Easily influenced by others
✔✔Name 4 symptoms of Dependent Personality Disorder - ✔✔1. Need to be taken care
of; submissive, clinging, and/or dependent
2. Difficulty making everyday decisions; seek others to make decisions for them
3. Feel uncomfortable and helpless when alone
4. Fear of being able to care for themselves
