CMN 571 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
/. Early school years age? - Answer-5-7
/.What coordination has matured in 5 yr olds that facilitates pencil/paper tasks, sports? -
Answer-Sensorimotor
/.What age masters conservations of mass/weight? - Answer-5.5 yrs
/.What age uses concrete operations? - Answer-Age 6
/.What ages for middle childhood? - Answer-7-10
/.What are the major developmental tasks for 7 yr olds? - Answer-Achievement in
school and acceptance by peers
/.Abstract thinking correlates with what age? - Answer-7
/.What age masters conservations of volume? - Answer-8
/.At what age are learning disabilities or attention, organization, and impulsivity
problems noticed? - Answer-8-9 yrs
/.When does adolescence begin and end? - Answer-Begins age 11-12 and ends
between 18 and 21
/.When is puberty completed? - Answer-16-18 yrs
/.3 leading causes of mortality in adolescents? - Answer-Unintentional injuries, suicide,
homicide
/.What are the major cause of morbidity in adolescence (15-19)? - Answer-Psychosocial
and often related to poverty
/.What challenge is present when caring for adolescents? - Answer-Accommodating the
cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial changes that influence health behavior
/.What age do you start to conduct visit in two parts, one with patient and the other with
parent present? - Answer-11-12 yrs
, /.For e 1st few minutes of visit, what should you talk about first? - Answer-Ask neutral,
no personal questions
/.Confidentiality is important but does not extend to what? - Answer-Life-threatening
concerns
/.What age can you ask if the patient wants their parent there? - Answer-18
/.True or false: puberty occurs in predictable order but the rate of progression is
variable? - Answer-True
/.For adolescent screening, how often do 11-21 yr olds see the doc? - Answer-Yearly
/.What is the counseling style that guide patients toward behavior change by helping
resolve ambivalence? - Answer-Motivational interviewing
/.What is change talk? - Answer-Gives pt opportunity to tell provider why it's important to
change, not give reasons why the don't need to
/.What's the hallmark of motivational interviewing? - Answer-Change talk
/.When would you not use motivational interviewing? - Answer-Medial or psych
instability
/.What is the result of activation of hypothalamic-pituitary gonadal axis in late childhood?
- Answer-Puberty
/.What affects puberty? - Answer-Nutrition, general health, genetics, ethnicity
/.What does the level of testosterone correlate with in males? - Answer-Physical stage
of puberty and degree of skeletal maturation
/.when does a girls growth spurt peak? - Answer-11.5-12
/.When does boys growth spurt peak - Answer-13.5-14
/.What's the tool to categorize genital development? - Answer-Sexual maturity rating
/.After appearance of public hair, when does axillary hair occur? - Answer-1 yr later
/.What the 1st measurable sign of puberty in girls? - Answer-Height
/.What is the first conspicuous sign of puberty in girls? - Answer-Breast buds
/.First sign of puberty in boys? - Answer-Scrotal and testicular growth
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
/. Early school years age? - Answer-5-7
/.What coordination has matured in 5 yr olds that facilitates pencil/paper tasks, sports? -
Answer-Sensorimotor
/.What age masters conservations of mass/weight? - Answer-5.5 yrs
/.What age uses concrete operations? - Answer-Age 6
/.What ages for middle childhood? - Answer-7-10
/.What are the major developmental tasks for 7 yr olds? - Answer-Achievement in
school and acceptance by peers
/.Abstract thinking correlates with what age? - Answer-7
/.What age masters conservations of volume? - Answer-8
/.At what age are learning disabilities or attention, organization, and impulsivity
problems noticed? - Answer-8-9 yrs
/.When does adolescence begin and end? - Answer-Begins age 11-12 and ends
between 18 and 21
/.When is puberty completed? - Answer-16-18 yrs
/.3 leading causes of mortality in adolescents? - Answer-Unintentional injuries, suicide,
homicide
/.What are the major cause of morbidity in adolescence (15-19)? - Answer-Psychosocial
and often related to poverty
/.What challenge is present when caring for adolescents? - Answer-Accommodating the
cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial changes that influence health behavior
/.What age do you start to conduct visit in two parts, one with patient and the other with
parent present? - Answer-11-12 yrs
, /.For e 1st few minutes of visit, what should you talk about first? - Answer-Ask neutral,
no personal questions
/.Confidentiality is important but does not extend to what? - Answer-Life-threatening
concerns
/.What age can you ask if the patient wants their parent there? - Answer-18
/.True or false: puberty occurs in predictable order but the rate of progression is
variable? - Answer-True
/.For adolescent screening, how often do 11-21 yr olds see the doc? - Answer-Yearly
/.What is the counseling style that guide patients toward behavior change by helping
resolve ambivalence? - Answer-Motivational interviewing
/.What is change talk? - Answer-Gives pt opportunity to tell provider why it's important to
change, not give reasons why the don't need to
/.What's the hallmark of motivational interviewing? - Answer-Change talk
/.When would you not use motivational interviewing? - Answer-Medial or psych
instability
/.What is the result of activation of hypothalamic-pituitary gonadal axis in late childhood?
- Answer-Puberty
/.What affects puberty? - Answer-Nutrition, general health, genetics, ethnicity
/.What does the level of testosterone correlate with in males? - Answer-Physical stage
of puberty and degree of skeletal maturation
/.when does a girls growth spurt peak? - Answer-11.5-12
/.When does boys growth spurt peak - Answer-13.5-14
/.What's the tool to categorize genital development? - Answer-Sexual maturity rating
/.After appearance of public hair, when does axillary hair occur? - Answer-1 yr later
/.What the 1st measurable sign of puberty in girls? - Answer-Height
/.What is the first conspicuous sign of puberty in girls? - Answer-Breast buds
/.First sign of puberty in boys? - Answer-Scrotal and testicular growth
