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A 10- year- old boy who has severe developmental delay
exhibits immediate and involuntary repetition and ambient
sounds and vocalizations made by other people. What is the
term for this phenomenon?
A. Dysarthria
B. Echolalia
C. Echopraxia
D. Word salad - Correct Answers ✅B. Echolalia
Echolalia - Correct Answers ✅The pathological, parrotlike,
and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or
phrase just spoken by another person.
A 19- year- old college freshman wears a wizard hat every
day around campus. When asked why, he tells people it is
because "the hat helps me think better." He has had few
friends but enjoys participating in medieval role- playing
games. He earns excellent grades in class and grooms
himself appropriately every day. His speech is fluent. His
thought process is linear, although he perseverates on
various wizard spells he has learned online. His affect is
restricted. He denies any hallucinations or any changes in
sleep, mood, appetitie, or energy. His unusual "style" has
interfered with his getting a job, which he needs to remain in
school. What is the likely diagnosis?
A. Bipolar I disorder.
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B. Schizoaffective disorder.
C. Schizophrenia
D. Schizotypal personality disorder. - Correct Answers ✅D.
Schizotypal personality disorder.
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of deficits in
interpersonal skills and a decreased capacity for close
relationships. Cognitive and perceptual distortions and
eccentric behavior are also evident.
Theravada Buddhist monks living at a temple bring a 27-
year-old Laotian man to the hospital. The man apparently has
fasted for 17 days. The man is acutely dehydrated and
emaciated. The pt is admitted to the medicine service. He is
delirious at first, but when he improves, the psychiatric
consult service is called b/c of his "odd manner". The pt is
unkempt and unshaven, which is in sharp contrast to the two
other members of his order. The pt does not speak English
and one of the monks translates to help the psychiatrist with
the evaluation. The pt appears withdrawn and responds very
briefly to the other monks, at times laughing inappropriately.
The monks say that the man's family, who had recently
emigrated from Laos, brought him to the order nearly 1 year
ago. Although he has been withdrawn since they have known
him, the monks say that this is the first time he has
embarked on such a fast. He told them that he was i -
Correct Answers ✅D. Schizophrenia.
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Is a psychotic disorder characterized by a combination of
specific positive and negative symptoms.
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations,
delusions, disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, and
disorganized behavior (absence of goal- orientation often
manifested in failure to perform activities of daily living).
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include a flat or blunted
affect (the absence or a severe restriction of observable
emotion), avolition (a loss of willpower and decisiveness),
alogia (a speech disturbance in schizophrenia involving
poverty of speech), decrease in the amount of speech or
poverty of content of speech (speech that contains little or no
meaningful information), and anhedonia (a loss of ability to
experience pleasure).
Match each description with the personality disorder for
which it is most highly characteristic (each disorder may be
used once, more than once, or not at all):
A. Antisocial personality disorder
B. Borderline personality disorder.
C. Histrionic personality disorder.
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D. Narcissistic personality disorder.
_ Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to
onself.
_ Failure to conform to social norms and without remorse.
_ Grandiose sense of self- importance.
_ Self- dramatization, theratrically, and exaggerated
expression of emotion. - Correct Answers ✅C. Histrionic
personality disordder- Consistently uses physical appearance
to draw attention to onself.
A. Antisocial personality disorder - Failure to conform to social
norms and without remorse.
B. Borderline personality disorder- Frantic efforts to avoid real
or imagined abandonment.
D. Narcissistic personality disorder- Grandiose sense of self-
importance.
C. Histrionic personality disorder- Self- dramatization,
theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion.
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A 10- year- old boy who has severe developmental delay
exhibits immediate and involuntary repetition and ambient
sounds and vocalizations made by other people. What is the
term for this phenomenon?
A. Dysarthria
B. Echolalia
C. Echopraxia
D. Word salad - Correct Answers ✅B. Echolalia
Echolalia - Correct Answers ✅The pathological, parrotlike,
and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or
phrase just spoken by another person.
A 19- year- old college freshman wears a wizard hat every
day around campus. When asked why, he tells people it is
because "the hat helps me think better." He has had few
friends but enjoys participating in medieval role- playing
games. He earns excellent grades in class and grooms
himself appropriately every day. His speech is fluent. His
thought process is linear, although he perseverates on
various wizard spells he has learned online. His affect is
restricted. He denies any hallucinations or any changes in
sleep, mood, appetitie, or energy. His unusual "style" has
interfered with his getting a job, which he needs to remain in
school. What is the likely diagnosis?
A. Bipolar I disorder.
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B. Schizoaffective disorder.
C. Schizophrenia
D. Schizotypal personality disorder. - Correct Answers ✅D.
Schizotypal personality disorder.
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of deficits in
interpersonal skills and a decreased capacity for close
relationships. Cognitive and perceptual distortions and
eccentric behavior are also evident.
Theravada Buddhist monks living at a temple bring a 27-
year-old Laotian man to the hospital. The man apparently has
fasted for 17 days. The man is acutely dehydrated and
emaciated. The pt is admitted to the medicine service. He is
delirious at first, but when he improves, the psychiatric
consult service is called b/c of his "odd manner". The pt is
unkempt and unshaven, which is in sharp contrast to the two
other members of his order. The pt does not speak English
and one of the monks translates to help the psychiatrist with
the evaluation. The pt appears withdrawn and responds very
briefly to the other monks, at times laughing inappropriately.
The monks say that the man's family, who had recently
emigrated from Laos, brought him to the order nearly 1 year
ago. Although he has been withdrawn since they have known
him, the monks say that this is the first time he has
embarked on such a fast. He told them that he was i -
Correct Answers ✅D. Schizophrenia.
,DSM-5 Study Guide Questions and
Answers, DSM 5 ASWB EXAM STUDY
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Is a psychotic disorder characterized by a combination of
specific positive and negative symptoms.
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations,
delusions, disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, and
disorganized behavior (absence of goal- orientation often
manifested in failure to perform activities of daily living).
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include a flat or blunted
affect (the absence or a severe restriction of observable
emotion), avolition (a loss of willpower and decisiveness),
alogia (a speech disturbance in schizophrenia involving
poverty of speech), decrease in the amount of speech or
poverty of content of speech (speech that contains little or no
meaningful information), and anhedonia (a loss of ability to
experience pleasure).
Match each description with the personality disorder for
which it is most highly characteristic (each disorder may be
used once, more than once, or not at all):
A. Antisocial personality disorder
B. Borderline personality disorder.
C. Histrionic personality disorder.
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D. Narcissistic personality disorder.
_ Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to
onself.
_ Failure to conform to social norms and without remorse.
_ Grandiose sense of self- importance.
_ Self- dramatization, theratrically, and exaggerated
expression of emotion. - Correct Answers ✅C. Histrionic
personality disordder- Consistently uses physical appearance
to draw attention to onself.
A. Antisocial personality disorder - Failure to conform to social
norms and without remorse.
B. Borderline personality disorder- Frantic efforts to avoid real
or imagined abandonment.
D. Narcissistic personality disorder- Grandiose sense of self-
importance.
C. Histrionic personality disorder- Self- dramatization,
theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion.
