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TRAUMA & PTSD EXAM 1 UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED SUCCESS WITH
DETAILED RATIONALES
1. What does PTSD stand for?
A. Post-trauma stress event
B. Panic trauma stress disorder
C. Post-traumatic stress disorder
D. Progressive traumatic stress disease
Rationale: PTSD = Post-traumatic stress disorder — standard diagnostic label.
2. Approximately how many Americans will be exposed to at least one traumatic event in
their lifetime?
A. 10%
B. 25%
C. At least 50%
D. 90%
Rationale: Epidemiologic data indicate ~half (or more) experience at least one traumatic
event.
3. Do most people exposed to a traumatic event develop PTSD?
A. Always
B. Usually
C. Less likely — most do not develop PTSD
D. Only if elderly
Rationale: Exposure is common but development of PTSD depends on risk/resilience
factors.
4. Which professions have the highest occupational exposure to traumatic events?
A. Librarians and teachers
B. Military, police, firefighters, EMTs
C. Accountants and programmers
D. Retail workers
Rationale: First responders and military have frequent trauma exposure.
5. The dose-response relationship in trauma means:
A. Higher doses of medication treat PTSD better
B. Greater magnitude/severity of trauma exposure relates to worse outcomes
C. Dose refers to therapy length only
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D. Response is always binary
Rationale: Severity and magnitude of exposure often predict symptom severity and
PTSD risk.
6. PTSD severity typically:
A. Is always mild
B. Cannot be measured
C. Ranges from mild to severe; severe can profoundly impair functioning
D. Always resolves within weeks
Rationale: PTSD severity varies; severe cases can be chronic and disabling.
7. PTSD symptoms can last:
A. Days only
B. Weeks only
C. Years or even a lifetime
D. Never beyond one month
Rationale: PTSD can be long-lasting without treatment and may relapse.
8. What is dissociation?
A. Only memory loss for non-traumatic events
B. Detachment from event, disruption in consciousness/memory/identity
C. Purely a psychotic symptom
D. Always voluntary
Rationale: Dissociation includes detachment, derealization, depersonalization, memory
disruptions.
9. Depersonalization means:
A. Losing a limb
B. Hallucinations of voices only
C. Feeling detached from one’s self — observing oneself from outside
D. Complete memory loss of childhood
Rationale: Depersonalization = sense of unreality regarding one’s self.
10. Derealization means:
A. Increased reality testing
B. Sense that the external world is unreal or altered
C. Superior perceptual clarity
D. Only a delusion of grandeur
Rationale: Derealization = external environment feels strange, dreamlike, or unreal.
TRAUMA & PTSD EXAM 1 UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED SUCCESS WITH
DETAILED RATIONALES
1. What does PTSD stand for?
A. Post-trauma stress event
B. Panic trauma stress disorder
C. Post-traumatic stress disorder
D. Progressive traumatic stress disease
Rationale: PTSD = Post-traumatic stress disorder — standard diagnostic label.
2. Approximately how many Americans will be exposed to at least one traumatic event in
their lifetime?
A. 10%
B. 25%
C. At least 50%
D. 90%
Rationale: Epidemiologic data indicate ~half (or more) experience at least one traumatic
event.
3. Do most people exposed to a traumatic event develop PTSD?
A. Always
B. Usually
C. Less likely — most do not develop PTSD
D. Only if elderly
Rationale: Exposure is common but development of PTSD depends on risk/resilience
factors.
4. Which professions have the highest occupational exposure to traumatic events?
A. Librarians and teachers
B. Military, police, firefighters, EMTs
C. Accountants and programmers
D. Retail workers
Rationale: First responders and military have frequent trauma exposure.
5. The dose-response relationship in trauma means:
A. Higher doses of medication treat PTSD better
B. Greater magnitude/severity of trauma exposure relates to worse outcomes
C. Dose refers to therapy length only
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D. Response is always binary
Rationale: Severity and magnitude of exposure often predict symptom severity and
PTSD risk.
6. PTSD severity typically:
A. Is always mild
B. Cannot be measured
C. Ranges from mild to severe; severe can profoundly impair functioning
D. Always resolves within weeks
Rationale: PTSD severity varies; severe cases can be chronic and disabling.
7. PTSD symptoms can last:
A. Days only
B. Weeks only
C. Years or even a lifetime
D. Never beyond one month
Rationale: PTSD can be long-lasting without treatment and may relapse.
8. What is dissociation?
A. Only memory loss for non-traumatic events
B. Detachment from event, disruption in consciousness/memory/identity
C. Purely a psychotic symptom
D. Always voluntary
Rationale: Dissociation includes detachment, derealization, depersonalization, memory
disruptions.
9. Depersonalization means:
A. Losing a limb
B. Hallucinations of voices only
C. Feeling detached from one’s self — observing oneself from outside
D. Complete memory loss of childhood
Rationale: Depersonalization = sense of unreality regarding one’s self.
10. Derealization means:
A. Increased reality testing
B. Sense that the external world is unreal or altered
C. Superior perceptual clarity
D. Only a delusion of grandeur
Rationale: Derealization = external environment feels strange, dreamlike, or unreal.
