CHILD PRITE EXAM 2025 | ACTUAL EXAM WITH 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS/ALREADY
GRADED A+| CHILD PRITE EXAM 2024-2025
Which of the following acutely inhibits the release of glucocorticoids in the
adrenal glands?
a. GABA
b. Cortisol
c. Estrogen
d. Serotonin
e. Acetylcholine RIGHT ANS:->>> a. GABA
A teacher assigns the children in class to solve as many math problems as they
can on their own in 20 minute period. Teacher makes a note of each student's
progress, divides the class into groups to further work on the problems
together, and provides help to each group when members are stuck. This
strategy most directly makes use of which of the following educational
concepts?
a. Transfer of learning
b. Collective socialization
c. attunement to learning styles
d. transformative learning theory
e. zone of proximal development RIGHT ANS:->>> e. zone of proximal development
By age of 3 years, toddlers can typically perform which of the following tasks?
,a. tie shoelaces
b. fasten buttons
c. close a zipper
d. manipulate scissors
e. draw a person with realistic proportions
RIGHT ANS:->>> d. manipulate scissors
An adolescent boy was engaged in therapy lasting 10 weeks. During this
therapy the boy was able to relate to his test taking anxiety, chronic feeling of
interpersonal inadequacy, and inaccurate sense of physical unattractiveness to an
earlier relationship with his father who was often critical and harsh, and
unpredictably embarrassed the boy in social settings. Which of the following
therapies was most likely utilized?
a. behavioral
b. cognitive behavioral
c. dialectical behavioral
d. motivational interviewing
e. short term psychodynamic
RIGHT ANS:->>> e. short term psychodynamic
During psychiatric evaluation, which of the following methods would best help
develop the therapeutic alliance between a psychiatric and a new immigrant
patient and family?
a. consulting with the immigrant family's traditional healers
b. conducting the initial appointment with the identified patient only
c. relying on previous clinical experiences with this immigrant population
d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in the family's language of
origin
,e. maintaining consistent individualistic boundary practices across spectrum of
cultures
RIGHT ANS:->>> d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in
family's language of origin
Children typically demonstrate the most overt sexual interest and behavior
during which of the following developmental stages?
a. infancy
b. toddlerhood
c. preschool
d. early school age
e. late school age
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. preschool
Research on typical development has focused on acquisition of language as a
foundation for cognitive and other areas of development. which of the
following has been demonstrated to be most significantly related to language
proficiency in preschoolers in the US?
a. parental age
b. geographical location
c. socioeconomic status
d. parental native language
e. contact with other children
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. socioeconomic status
youth who has been on long term risperidone treatment develops TD which
continues despite initially reducing dose, and then sequential optimal trials of
aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine, each for sufficient duration and dose.
Most appropriate next step is to start which of the following treatments?
, a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
b. add Vit E to neuroleptic use
c. switch neuroleptic to fluphenazine
d. add benztropine to neuroleptic use
e. add botox injections to neuroleptic use
RIGHT ANS:->>> a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
7 y.o. presents with speech difficulties. On exam, examples of child's speech
include pronouncing "dat" for cat and "pay" for play. Parents report that this
problem bothers their child and also results in child being bullied at school. The
child has no hearing difficulties, and otherwise excels in academics. Which of
the following is the most likely dx?
a. stuttering
b. normal development
c. speech sound disorder
d. childhood apraxia of speech
e. social (pragmatic) communication disorder
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. speech sound disorder
According to DSM, dx of premenstrual dysphoric disorder should be confirmed
by...
a. daily rating of severity of problems
b. prospective symptom rating log over 2 months
c. premenstrual tension syndrome rating scale
d. visual analogue scales of premenstrual mood symptoms
e. validated depression rating scale during week prior to menses
RIGHT ANS:->>> b. prospective symptom rating log over 2 months
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS/ALREADY
GRADED A+| CHILD PRITE EXAM 2024-2025
Which of the following acutely inhibits the release of glucocorticoids in the
adrenal glands?
a. GABA
b. Cortisol
c. Estrogen
d. Serotonin
e. Acetylcholine RIGHT ANS:->>> a. GABA
A teacher assigns the children in class to solve as many math problems as they
can on their own in 20 minute period. Teacher makes a note of each student's
progress, divides the class into groups to further work on the problems
together, and provides help to each group when members are stuck. This
strategy most directly makes use of which of the following educational
concepts?
a. Transfer of learning
b. Collective socialization
c. attunement to learning styles
d. transformative learning theory
e. zone of proximal development RIGHT ANS:->>> e. zone of proximal development
By age of 3 years, toddlers can typically perform which of the following tasks?
,a. tie shoelaces
b. fasten buttons
c. close a zipper
d. manipulate scissors
e. draw a person with realistic proportions
RIGHT ANS:->>> d. manipulate scissors
An adolescent boy was engaged in therapy lasting 10 weeks. During this
therapy the boy was able to relate to his test taking anxiety, chronic feeling of
interpersonal inadequacy, and inaccurate sense of physical unattractiveness to an
earlier relationship with his father who was often critical and harsh, and
unpredictably embarrassed the boy in social settings. Which of the following
therapies was most likely utilized?
a. behavioral
b. cognitive behavioral
c. dialectical behavioral
d. motivational interviewing
e. short term psychodynamic
RIGHT ANS:->>> e. short term psychodynamic
During psychiatric evaluation, which of the following methods would best help
develop the therapeutic alliance between a psychiatric and a new immigrant
patient and family?
a. consulting with the immigrant family's traditional healers
b. conducting the initial appointment with the identified patient only
c. relying on previous clinical experiences with this immigrant population
d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in the family's language of
origin
,e. maintaining consistent individualistic boundary practices across spectrum of
cultures
RIGHT ANS:->>> d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in
family's language of origin
Children typically demonstrate the most overt sexual interest and behavior
during which of the following developmental stages?
a. infancy
b. toddlerhood
c. preschool
d. early school age
e. late school age
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. preschool
Research on typical development has focused on acquisition of language as a
foundation for cognitive and other areas of development. which of the
following has been demonstrated to be most significantly related to language
proficiency in preschoolers in the US?
a. parental age
b. geographical location
c. socioeconomic status
d. parental native language
e. contact with other children
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. socioeconomic status
youth who has been on long term risperidone treatment develops TD which
continues despite initially reducing dose, and then sequential optimal trials of
aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine, each for sufficient duration and dose.
Most appropriate next step is to start which of the following treatments?
, a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
b. add Vit E to neuroleptic use
c. switch neuroleptic to fluphenazine
d. add benztropine to neuroleptic use
e. add botox injections to neuroleptic use
RIGHT ANS:->>> a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
7 y.o. presents with speech difficulties. On exam, examples of child's speech
include pronouncing "dat" for cat and "pay" for play. Parents report that this
problem bothers their child and also results in child being bullied at school. The
child has no hearing difficulties, and otherwise excels in academics. Which of
the following is the most likely dx?
a. stuttering
b. normal development
c. speech sound disorder
d. childhood apraxia of speech
e. social (pragmatic) communication disorder
RIGHT ANS:->>> c. speech sound disorder
According to DSM, dx of premenstrual dysphoric disorder should be confirmed
by...
a. daily rating of severity of problems
b. prospective symptom rating log over 2 months
c. premenstrual tension syndrome rating scale
d. visual analogue scales of premenstrual mood symptoms
e. validated depression rating scale during week prior to menses
RIGHT ANS:->>> b. prospective symptom rating log over 2 months
