ABGC BOARDS LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dismissal - ✔✔devaluing or attacking the legitimacy of the professional or the
profession from which bad news is received
✔✔Anchoring: - ✔✔when an individual has a prior belief concerning the magnitude of
the risk that serves as a frame of reference within which new information or risks figures
are evaluated
✔✔Availability - ✔✔refers to how easily or readily examples of the potential outcome
can be brought to mind (ie knowing someone with the condition in question)
✔✔Representativeness - ✔✔refers to the variety of circumstances in which individuals
inappropriately use the characteristics of a small sample with which that are familiar as
a basis for predicting the outcome related to a larger population.
✔✔Intuitive - ✔✔a person who makes a decision on the basis of feelings that have not
been verbalized - "it feels right"
✔✔Agonizing - ✔✔a person who spends time and effort in gathering information and
analyzing alternatives, but gets lost in the data and never gets to the decision - "I can't
make up my mind"
✔✔Delaying: - ✔✔a person who puts off thought and action on a problem until later - "I'll
get back to you later"
✔✔Impulsive: - ✔✔a person who takes the first available alternative, without looking at
other alternatives or collecting relevant information - "decide now, think later"
✔✔Fatalistic: - ✔✔a person who leaves the decision to the environment or fate
"whatever will be, will be"
, ✔✔Compliant: - ✔✔a person who goes along with the plans of others instead of making
his or her own decisions - "if it's OK with you, it's OK with me"
✔✔Paralytic - ✔✔a person who accepts responsibility for a decision but is unable to set
the process in motion to make the decision - "I know I should, but I just can't get with it"
✔✔Planful - ✔✔a person who takes a rational approach to decision making, balancing
cognitive, emotional, and situational considerations - "I am planful and organized"
✔✔Ambivalence: - ✔✔an inability to make a decision in the face of mutually conflicting
possibilities, each of which has value to the patient
✔✔aspects of decision making process - ✔✔ambiguity, burden, desire to normalize
✔✔Ambiguity - ✔✔uncertainty concerning what a particular diagnosis would mean for
the health and functioning of an affected child
✔✔Burden - ✔✔associated with the need to make a decision (knowing a future
pregnancy could produce affected child increase burden on decision to become
pregnant)
✔✔Desire to normalize - ✔✔wanting to prove their ability to produce healthy offspring
✔✔Anger - ✔✔frequently the surface expression of sadness and grief, it can be a
defense against a perceived weaknesss
✔✔Depression - ✔✔feelings underlying may be anger, sadness, and
despair/hopelessness. Typically is a reaction to a real or perceived loss of control
✔✔Shame/guilt - ✔✔patients who pass on genetic condition often feel guilt and shame,
patients who have a genetic condition may feel shame about being "defective"
✔✔Apprehension/anxiety - ✔✔many feel anxiety in new situations, as well as anxiety
about what they may learn and may not tell you that this is how they feel
✔✔Despair/fear: - ✔✔patient feels there is no solution, no hope, no way of coping
✔✔discrepancies in infromaiton - ✔✔Gap: an issue usually associated with a particular
genetic situation that is not raised
Omission: the patient fails to include relevant information in her or his personal narrative
inconsistency: between what the patient says at different times in the session
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dismissal - ✔✔devaluing or attacking the legitimacy of the professional or the
profession from which bad news is received
✔✔Anchoring: - ✔✔when an individual has a prior belief concerning the magnitude of
the risk that serves as a frame of reference within which new information or risks figures
are evaluated
✔✔Availability - ✔✔refers to how easily or readily examples of the potential outcome
can be brought to mind (ie knowing someone with the condition in question)
✔✔Representativeness - ✔✔refers to the variety of circumstances in which individuals
inappropriately use the characteristics of a small sample with which that are familiar as
a basis for predicting the outcome related to a larger population.
✔✔Intuitive - ✔✔a person who makes a decision on the basis of feelings that have not
been verbalized - "it feels right"
✔✔Agonizing - ✔✔a person who spends time and effort in gathering information and
analyzing alternatives, but gets lost in the data and never gets to the decision - "I can't
make up my mind"
✔✔Delaying: - ✔✔a person who puts off thought and action on a problem until later - "I'll
get back to you later"
✔✔Impulsive: - ✔✔a person who takes the first available alternative, without looking at
other alternatives or collecting relevant information - "decide now, think later"
✔✔Fatalistic: - ✔✔a person who leaves the decision to the environment or fate
"whatever will be, will be"
, ✔✔Compliant: - ✔✔a person who goes along with the plans of others instead of making
his or her own decisions - "if it's OK with you, it's OK with me"
✔✔Paralytic - ✔✔a person who accepts responsibility for a decision but is unable to set
the process in motion to make the decision - "I know I should, but I just can't get with it"
✔✔Planful - ✔✔a person who takes a rational approach to decision making, balancing
cognitive, emotional, and situational considerations - "I am planful and organized"
✔✔Ambivalence: - ✔✔an inability to make a decision in the face of mutually conflicting
possibilities, each of which has value to the patient
✔✔aspects of decision making process - ✔✔ambiguity, burden, desire to normalize
✔✔Ambiguity - ✔✔uncertainty concerning what a particular diagnosis would mean for
the health and functioning of an affected child
✔✔Burden - ✔✔associated with the need to make a decision (knowing a future
pregnancy could produce affected child increase burden on decision to become
pregnant)
✔✔Desire to normalize - ✔✔wanting to prove their ability to produce healthy offspring
✔✔Anger - ✔✔frequently the surface expression of sadness and grief, it can be a
defense against a perceived weaknesss
✔✔Depression - ✔✔feelings underlying may be anger, sadness, and
despair/hopelessness. Typically is a reaction to a real or perceived loss of control
✔✔Shame/guilt - ✔✔patients who pass on genetic condition often feel guilt and shame,
patients who have a genetic condition may feel shame about being "defective"
✔✔Apprehension/anxiety - ✔✔many feel anxiety in new situations, as well as anxiety
about what they may learn and may not tell you that this is how they feel
✔✔Despair/fear: - ✔✔patient feels there is no solution, no hope, no way of coping
✔✔discrepancies in infromaiton - ✔✔Gap: an issue usually associated with a particular
genetic situation that is not raised
Omission: the patient fails to include relevant information in her or his personal narrative
inconsistency: between what the patient says at different times in the session
