DSM-5 STUDY GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
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.
B. Schizoaffective disorder.
C. Schizophrenia
D. Schizotypal personality disorder. Ans✓✓✓ 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appears withdrawn and responds very briefly to the other monks, at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 Although he has been withdrawn since they have known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 Ans✓✓✓ D. Schizophrenia.
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.
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. Ans✓✓✓ C. Histrionic personality disorder- Consistently uses
physical appearance to draw attention to oneself.
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.
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
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.
B. Schizoaffective disorder.
C. Schizophrenia
D. Schizotypal personality disorder. Ans✓✓✓ 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 Ans✓✓✓ D. Schizophrenia.
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.
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. Ans✓✓✓ C. Histrionic personality disorder- Consistently uses
physical appearance to draw attention to oneself.
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.
