Abnm Psych Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Gender dysphoria - Answer - The distress caused by the mismatch between assigned
sex and gender identity
You don't feel like the sex you were assigned at birth
Strong desire to be the other gender
Transgender - Answer - feel that they are the opposite sex "I am a woman trapped in a
man's body" and vice versa
Transsexual - Answer - Also lives as the opposite gender in dress and behavior
May seek sex reassignment surgery
Signs during childhood of gender dysphoria - Answer - cross dressing, dislike or denial
of one's sexual organs, opposite sex friendships, play typical of opposite sex
'natal' sex, - Answer - Assigned sex at birth
- Based on external genitalia
gender identity, - Answer - one's basic sense of being a boy or girl or other gender
(differs from one's sex assigned at birth)
what you feel is your own gender
gender role - Answer - the outward behaviors, traits, and attitudes of male or female
defined by culture
public lived role in society
sexual orientation - Answer - Who you are attracted to
What steps are recommended before sex reassignment surgery? - Answer -
Counseling-psychotherapy
Body alterations
Hormone therapy
What is required before you can undergo reassignment surgery? - Answer - One year of
hormone therapy and functioning as opposite sex
What does it mean to be gender neutral/gender fluid/non-binary? - Answer - The idea
that gender is on a spectrum
You can feel male and female or neither
, Transvestic fetishism - Answer - obtain sexual arousal by cross dressing
Paraphilic disorders & Fetishes - Answer - Recurrent, intense, sexually arousing
fantasies, urges, or behaviors
Paraphilias are disordered if - Answer - distressing or disabling & causes harm
Frotteurism - Answer - Sexually oriented touching or rubbing another person
Fetishism - Answer - Reliance on inanimate object for sexual arousal
Voyeurism - Answer - Peeping Tom
Marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by watching others undress
Must have element of risk
Exhibitionism - Answer - Obtaining sexual gratification by exposing one's genitals to an
unwilling stranger
A desire to shock or embarrass the observer
Sadism and Masochism. - Answer - Pain or suffering intensifies or is necessary for
sexual gratification
Sadism - Answer - sexual arousal from giving/inflicting pain or humiliation upon another
person
Masochism - Answer - sexual arousal from being made to suffer pain or humiliation
Pedophilic disorder - Answer - sexual activity with a child who has not reach puberty
- Sexual arousal from thought or deeds related to this activity
- The person is as least 5 years older than the subject of the sexual fantasy and is at
least 16
Incest - Answer - sexual abuse from a relative
What were some if the reasons given in the video for why people rape - Answer -
People believe they can have or take whatever they want, whenever they want it
(antisocials)
Alcohol or drugs
Person may need to feel in power or to humiliate the other person to achieve sexual
gratification
What are some of the signs of sexual abuse? - Answer - Inappropriate sexualized
behavior
Regression, clinging, crying, specific fears
Heightened aggression and hostility toward others
Answers
Gender dysphoria - Answer - The distress caused by the mismatch between assigned
sex and gender identity
You don't feel like the sex you were assigned at birth
Strong desire to be the other gender
Transgender - Answer - feel that they are the opposite sex "I am a woman trapped in a
man's body" and vice versa
Transsexual - Answer - Also lives as the opposite gender in dress and behavior
May seek sex reassignment surgery
Signs during childhood of gender dysphoria - Answer - cross dressing, dislike or denial
of one's sexual organs, opposite sex friendships, play typical of opposite sex
'natal' sex, - Answer - Assigned sex at birth
- Based on external genitalia
gender identity, - Answer - one's basic sense of being a boy or girl or other gender
(differs from one's sex assigned at birth)
what you feel is your own gender
gender role - Answer - the outward behaviors, traits, and attitudes of male or female
defined by culture
public lived role in society
sexual orientation - Answer - Who you are attracted to
What steps are recommended before sex reassignment surgery? - Answer -
Counseling-psychotherapy
Body alterations
Hormone therapy
What is required before you can undergo reassignment surgery? - Answer - One year of
hormone therapy and functioning as opposite sex
What does it mean to be gender neutral/gender fluid/non-binary? - Answer - The idea
that gender is on a spectrum
You can feel male and female or neither
, Transvestic fetishism - Answer - obtain sexual arousal by cross dressing
Paraphilic disorders & Fetishes - Answer - Recurrent, intense, sexually arousing
fantasies, urges, or behaviors
Paraphilias are disordered if - Answer - distressing or disabling & causes harm
Frotteurism - Answer - Sexually oriented touching or rubbing another person
Fetishism - Answer - Reliance on inanimate object for sexual arousal
Voyeurism - Answer - Peeping Tom
Marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by watching others undress
Must have element of risk
Exhibitionism - Answer - Obtaining sexual gratification by exposing one's genitals to an
unwilling stranger
A desire to shock or embarrass the observer
Sadism and Masochism. - Answer - Pain or suffering intensifies or is necessary for
sexual gratification
Sadism - Answer - sexual arousal from giving/inflicting pain or humiliation upon another
person
Masochism - Answer - sexual arousal from being made to suffer pain or humiliation
Pedophilic disorder - Answer - sexual activity with a child who has not reach puberty
- Sexual arousal from thought or deeds related to this activity
- The person is as least 5 years older than the subject of the sexual fantasy and is at
least 16
Incest - Answer - sexual abuse from a relative
What were some if the reasons given in the video for why people rape - Answer -
People believe they can have or take whatever they want, whenever they want it
(antisocials)
Alcohol or drugs
Person may need to feel in power or to humiliate the other person to achieve sexual
gratification
What are some of the signs of sexual abuse? - Answer - Inappropriate sexualized
behavior
Regression, clinging, crying, specific fears
Heightened aggression and hostility toward others
