PRITE Q/As 2025 |GUARANTEED
ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
The parents of a four-and-a-half-year-old child report that the child
insists there is a small monkey who shares the child's room. The child
talks to the monkey, asks others to converse with the monkey and insists
that the monkey have a seat at the dinner table. The parents ask if they
should be concerned. The best response to the parents is that their child
is exhibiting:
A. early signs of psychosis.
B. signs of visual abnormalities.
C. signs of exposure to trauma.
D. behavior typical for preschoolers.
E. early signs of developmental delay. - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Development & Maturation
A pt reports a fear of driving and experiences feelings of panic, SOB,
palpitations, sweating, clamminess when anticipating a drive down a
steep road. The pt acknowledges going out of the way to avoid this
situation. They deny similar symptoms in other settings. Which is the
most likely diagnosis?
A Panic disorder
B Specific phobia
,C GAD
D PTSD
E OCD - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ B
Clinical psychiatry
Psychopathology & associated conditions
6. In normal aging, which of the following cognitive abilities is the last
to show decline?
A. Perceptual speed
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Numerical ability
D. Spatial orientation
E. Word knowledge - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ E
7. In order to make a DSM 5 diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), symptoms must be present prior to what age?
A. 5 years
B. 7 years
C. 12 years
D. 17 years
E. 21 years - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ C
,The main goal of group cognitive behavior therapy for chronic pain
treatment is to:
A. decrease individual members' pain.
B. convince family members that chronic pain is real.
C. utilize the group process to avoid thinking about stress.
D. improve patients' functioning despite the presence of pain.
E. reinforce distorted automatic thoughts about the pain experience, -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Treatment
Which of the following is a premise of the objects relations theory?
A Everyone develops true and false selves
B Aggression and envy are central to psychopathology
C The "paranoid position" is representative of the first 6 months of life
D The mind is inhabited by mental representations of the self and others
E The pleasure principle is central to understanding unconscious
conflicts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Behavioral & social sciences
The psychiatrist is asking a patient questions describing symptoms of
mania. The patient responds, "that sounds exactly like my cousin," and
, proceeds to tell a long story about the cousin impulsively traveling to
Mexico and exhausting all savings, never actually answering the
psychiatrist's request. This is an example of:
A. tangentiality.
B. circumstantiality.
C. flight of ideas.
D. pressured speech.
E. clang associations. - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A
Clinical psychiatry
Diagnostic procedures
9. A patient is brought to the emergency department in a state of
psychosis caused by the use of inhalants. The patient is paranoid and
anxious but cooperative. Which of the following is the best initial
treatment of this acute condition? -
A. Benzodiazepines
B. Antipsychotics
C. Inhaled oxygen
D. Gastric lavage
E. Watchful waiting - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ E
Which of the following most seriously threatens the external validity of
a research study?
ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
The parents of a four-and-a-half-year-old child report that the child
insists there is a small monkey who shares the child's room. The child
talks to the monkey, asks others to converse with the monkey and insists
that the monkey have a seat at the dinner table. The parents ask if they
should be concerned. The best response to the parents is that their child
is exhibiting:
A. early signs of psychosis.
B. signs of visual abnormalities.
C. signs of exposure to trauma.
D. behavior typical for preschoolers.
E. early signs of developmental delay. - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Development & Maturation
A pt reports a fear of driving and experiences feelings of panic, SOB,
palpitations, sweating, clamminess when anticipating a drive down a
steep road. The pt acknowledges going out of the way to avoid this
situation. They deny similar symptoms in other settings. Which is the
most likely diagnosis?
A Panic disorder
B Specific phobia
,C GAD
D PTSD
E OCD - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ B
Clinical psychiatry
Psychopathology & associated conditions
6. In normal aging, which of the following cognitive abilities is the last
to show decline?
A. Perceptual speed
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Numerical ability
D. Spatial orientation
E. Word knowledge - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ E
7. In order to make a DSM 5 diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), symptoms must be present prior to what age?
A. 5 years
B. 7 years
C. 12 years
D. 17 years
E. 21 years - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ C
,The main goal of group cognitive behavior therapy for chronic pain
treatment is to:
A. decrease individual members' pain.
B. convince family members that chronic pain is real.
C. utilize the group process to avoid thinking about stress.
D. improve patients' functioning despite the presence of pain.
E. reinforce distorted automatic thoughts about the pain experience, -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Treatment
Which of the following is a premise of the objects relations theory?
A Everyone develops true and false selves
B Aggression and envy are central to psychopathology
C The "paranoid position" is representative of the first 6 months of life
D The mind is inhabited by mental representations of the self and others
E The pleasure principle is central to understanding unconscious
conflicts - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ D
Clinical psychiatry
Behavioral & social sciences
The psychiatrist is asking a patient questions describing symptoms of
mania. The patient responds, "that sounds exactly like my cousin," and
, proceeds to tell a long story about the cousin impulsively traveling to
Mexico and exhausting all savings, never actually answering the
psychiatrist's request. This is an example of:
A. tangentiality.
B. circumstantiality.
C. flight of ideas.
D. pressured speech.
E. clang associations. - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A
Clinical psychiatry
Diagnostic procedures
9. A patient is brought to the emergency department in a state of
psychosis caused by the use of inhalants. The patient is paranoid and
anxious but cooperative. Which of the following is the best initial
treatment of this acute condition? -
A. Benzodiazepines
B. Antipsychotics
C. Inhaled oxygen
D. Gastric lavage
E. Watchful waiting - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ E
Which of the following most seriously threatens the external validity of
a research study?
