CMN 548 LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Definition of sensitivity - ✔✔Refers to the ability of a test to identify individuals who
have the disease.
✔✔Definition of incidence - ✔✔Refers to the number of new cases of a disease, during
a specified period of time, in a specified population or community.
✔✔Definition of correlation - ✔✔The relationship between two or more variables.
✔✔Lab test for hydration status - ✔✔Urine Specific Gravity
✔✔Lab for determining hypothyroidism - ✔✔TSH
✔✔Negative reinforcement in operant conditioning - ✔✔Occurs when an action
prevents or eliminates a negative event.
✔✔Retrograde amnesia - ✔✔The loss of knowledge that was acquired before the onset
of amnesia.
✔✔Anterograde amnesia - ✔✔The inability to form new memories.
, ✔✔Global amnesia - ✔✔Sudden and temporary loss of short-term memory.
✔✔Psychogenic amnesia - ✔✔Extensive severe retrograde amnesia, sometimes
presents with sudden onset, loss of personal identity, minimal anterograde amnesia,
including unable to recall own name.
✔✔Impairment caused by Korsakoff's syndrome - ✔✔Exhibit memory impairment,
effortful retrieval and evaluation.
✔✔Biological basis of memory - ✔✔Synaptic plasticity, which refers to the ability of
synapses to strengthen or weaken based on activity.
✔✔Attachment theory basis - ✔✔Attachment to the mother is essential for the infant's
survival and has important consequences for later development and personality
functioning.
✔✔Displacement defense mechanism - ✔✔An object representation from the subject's
developmental experience is displaced to the representation of the new object/analyst.
✔✔Blocking defense mechanism - ✔✔Inhibition of the impulse, affect, or thought.
✔✔Reaction formation defense mechanism - ✔✔The management of unacceptable
impulses by allowing expressions of the impulse in opposing form.
✔✔Suppression defense mechanism - ✔✔The conscious decision to postpone attention
to an impulse or conflict.
✔✔Projection defense mechanism - ✔✔The process by which qualities of self are
attributed to the object representation of an external object.
✔✔Denial defense mechanism - ✔✔Seeing, but refusing to acknowledge what one
sees, maybe to avoid a painful aspect of reality.
✔✔Most healthy defense mechanism - ✔✔Altruism.
✔✔Humor as a defense mechanism - ✔✔Mature.
✔✔Key element of change in psychodynamic therapy - ✔✔Precontemplation,
Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance.
✔✔Birth order impact theorist - ✔✔Alfred Adler.
✔✔Founder of attachment theory - ✔✔John Bowlby.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Definition of sensitivity - ✔✔Refers to the ability of a test to identify individuals who
have the disease.
✔✔Definition of incidence - ✔✔Refers to the number of new cases of a disease, during
a specified period of time, in a specified population or community.
✔✔Definition of correlation - ✔✔The relationship between two or more variables.
✔✔Lab test for hydration status - ✔✔Urine Specific Gravity
✔✔Lab for determining hypothyroidism - ✔✔TSH
✔✔Negative reinforcement in operant conditioning - ✔✔Occurs when an action
prevents or eliminates a negative event.
✔✔Retrograde amnesia - ✔✔The loss of knowledge that was acquired before the onset
of amnesia.
✔✔Anterograde amnesia - ✔✔The inability to form new memories.
, ✔✔Global amnesia - ✔✔Sudden and temporary loss of short-term memory.
✔✔Psychogenic amnesia - ✔✔Extensive severe retrograde amnesia, sometimes
presents with sudden onset, loss of personal identity, minimal anterograde amnesia,
including unable to recall own name.
✔✔Impairment caused by Korsakoff's syndrome - ✔✔Exhibit memory impairment,
effortful retrieval and evaluation.
✔✔Biological basis of memory - ✔✔Synaptic plasticity, which refers to the ability of
synapses to strengthen or weaken based on activity.
✔✔Attachment theory basis - ✔✔Attachment to the mother is essential for the infant's
survival and has important consequences for later development and personality
functioning.
✔✔Displacement defense mechanism - ✔✔An object representation from the subject's
developmental experience is displaced to the representation of the new object/analyst.
✔✔Blocking defense mechanism - ✔✔Inhibition of the impulse, affect, or thought.
✔✔Reaction formation defense mechanism - ✔✔The management of unacceptable
impulses by allowing expressions of the impulse in opposing form.
✔✔Suppression defense mechanism - ✔✔The conscious decision to postpone attention
to an impulse or conflict.
✔✔Projection defense mechanism - ✔✔The process by which qualities of self are
attributed to the object representation of an external object.
✔✔Denial defense mechanism - ✔✔Seeing, but refusing to acknowledge what one
sees, maybe to avoid a painful aspect of reality.
✔✔Most healthy defense mechanism - ✔✔Altruism.
✔✔Humor as a defense mechanism - ✔✔Mature.
✔✔Key element of change in psychodynamic therapy - ✔✔Precontemplation,
Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance.
✔✔Birth order impact theorist - ✔✔Alfred Adler.
✔✔Founder of attachment theory - ✔✔John Bowlby.
