PSYCHIATRY 12TH EDITION ACTUAL TEST
BANK PAPER 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Severe difficulties in social relatedness, communication, and a range
of activity and repetitive and stereotypical patterns of behavior,
including speech? Answer: Autism spectrum disorder
⩥ Severe impairment in memory, judgement, orientation, and cognition?
Answer: Major neurocognitive disorder or dementia
⩥ Severe mood swings between depression and elation and by remission
and recurrence? Answer: Bipolar disorder
⩥ Severe temper tantrums, chronic irritability, and angry mood
diagnosed in children age 6 years and younger than age 18? Answer:
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
⩥ Sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature - all of which are unwelcomed by the victim?
Answer: Sexual harassment
,⩥ Sexual pleasure associated with the desire to defecate on a partner, to
be defecated on, or to eat feces? Answer: Coprophilia
⩥ Sexual pleasure associated with the desire to urinate on a partner or to
be urinated on? Answer: Urophilia
⩥ Sexual reflexes are mediated by spinal neurons in what region of the
lumbosacral segments? Answer: Central gray region
⩥ Sexuality depends on what four interrelated psychosexual factors?
Answer: Sexual identity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual
behavior
⩥ Sigmund Freud believed that gender identity problems resulted from?
Answer: Conflicts experienced by children within the Oedipal triangle
⩥ Significant, below average intelligence and impairment in adaptive
functioning? Answer: Intellectual disability
⩥ Social Security pays benefits to persons over what age? Answer: 65
⩥ Sudden travel away from home associated with partial or complete
memory loss about one's identity? Answer: Dissociative fugue
,⩥ Table 17.2-9 Answer: Page 583
⩥ Term used to describe personality development and functioning as
these are affected by sexuality? Answer: Psychosexual
⩥ Testis develop as a result of the action of what genes? Answer: SRY
and SOX9
⩥ Testosterone affects brain neurons that contribute to masculinization
in what area of the brain? Answer: Hypothalamus
⩥ The Babinski reflex usually disappears by what month? Answer: 12th
month
⩥ The capacity for declarative memory is linked to the development of
what brain structure? Answer: Neocortex
⩥ The cerebral cortex begins to develop around what week? Answer:
10th week
⩥ The formation of gender identity is influenced by? Answer: The
interaction of children's temperament and parents' qualities and attitudes
, ⩥ The genetic influence on gender identity is active by what
physiologically week of fetal life? Answer: 6th week
⩥ The large increase in the neocortex during development is mainly due
to the growth of? Answer: Growth and branching of dendrites
⩥ The middle years are when? Answer: Between 6 and puberty
⩥ The most widely used test of current cognitive functioning which
assesses orientation, attention, calculation, immediate and short-term
recall, language, and the ability to follow simple commands? Answer:
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
⩥ The preschool period is when? Answer: Between 2 to 3 years of age
⩥ The presence of desire depends on what factors? Answer: Biological
drive, adequate self-esteem, ability to accept oneself as a sexual person,
availability of a partner, and a good relationship in nonsexual areas with
a partner
⩥ The prevalence of the different types of assault are reported by what
two different data collection systems? Answer: The Federal Bureau of
Investigation's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and The Bureau of Justice
Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)