PRITE Psychiatric Evaluation and Psychiatric Testing Questions With Complete Solutions

PRITE Psychiatric Evaluation and
Psychiatric Testing Questions With
Complete Solutions
Which is a limitation of the MMSE? (7x) -
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correct answer...✔✔MAY FAIL TO DETECT VERY MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
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Question to ask when evaluating for immediate recall (3x) - correct answer...✔✔
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CAN YOU REPEAT THESE SIX NUMBERS?
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What task is useful in evaluating a pt's ability to concentrate? (2x) - correct answer...✔
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On MSE, thought process with lack of goal directedness, excessive details, and difficult
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y with closure describes a thought pattern of: (2x) - correct answer...✔✔
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CIRCUMSTANTIALITY

In addition to orientation, attention, calculation, language and registration, what other co
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gnitive domain does the mmse test? - correct answer...✔✔RECALL
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What is being assessed when patient is asked to repeat words "Apple, table, penny"? -
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correct answer...✔✔REGISTRATION
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Which area of MSE relies primarily on patient report? - correct answer...✔✔MOOD
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Psych MD asked pt "what would you do if you lost your prescription?" This question pri
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marily assesses: - correct answer...✔✔JUDGMENT
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Psychiatrist asks "How many quarters are in $15?", examining what ability -
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correct answer...✔✔COGNITION
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Which of the following is the most significant problem with the use of the global assess
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ment of functioning scale? - correct answer...✔✔
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IT CONFOUNDS SYMPTOMS AND FUNCTIONING
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Which of the following represents a disorder of the content of thought? -
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correct answer...✔✔OBSESSIONS
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Communication d/o assoc w/ neurological and psych d/o - correct answer...✔✔
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MUTISM




AGRADESOLUTIONS

, Asking a patient to recite a series of numbers in reverse order is a standard test of: -
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correct answer...✔✔CONCENTRATION
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The difference between an idea of reference and a delusion of reference is that the form
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er is: - correct answer...✔✔HELD WITH LESS CONVICTION
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The purpose of asking a pt to start at 100 and count backwards by 7's is to measure whi
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ch of the following? - correct answer...✔✔CONCENTRATION
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A disorder of content of thought - correct answer...✔✔PARANOIA
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Asking a pt, "which one does not belong in the following group: 13 pennies, a piggy ban
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k, and a cow?" is a test of which domain: - correct answer...✔✔
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Asking the patient "how are an apple and an orange alike?" assesses which of the follo
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wing cognitive functions? - correct answer...✔✔ABSTRACT REASONING
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Asking a patient to interpret the phrase "Don't cry over spilled milk" tests what? -
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correct answer...✔✔ABSTRACT THINKING
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A pt reports, "undercover agents are all there, and they're gonna kill me." Pt's comment i
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s best described as: - correct answer...✔✔A DELUSION
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Asking pt what they would do in a hypothetical situation is testing what? -
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correct answer...✔✔JUDGMENT
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Why is there limited value of serial sevens as a test of concentration? - correct answer...
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Disorder of what element of MSE is evidenced by patient repeatedly referring back to th
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e answer to a previous question? - correct answer...✔✔THOUGHT PROCESS
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Elderly pt with profound apathy, how do you distinguish depression from executive dysf
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unction? - correct answer...✔✔CLOCK DRAWING
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Word that pt makes up is a ____. - correct answer...✔✔NEOLOGISM
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The term for abnormally slow speech seen in depression - correct answer...✔✔
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BRADYLALIA

5 days after CABG a 47 y/o M is disoriented to time and place. He identifies his right an
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d left but not that of the examiners. Can draw square and circle but not a clock. This is: -
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correct answer...✔✔DYSPRAXIA
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AGRADESOLUTIONS