COMPLETE NRNP 6635
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY EXAM
PRACTICE EXPERT-VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND UPDATED
QUESTIONS FOR WALDEN
UNIVERSITY 2025
1 Midterm Exam Practice Questions and Answers
Question 1: Select the serum assessment that is used when prescribing drugs
to treat psychiatric disorders in psychosomatic patients.
Answer: Potassium
Question 2: Select the theorist who developed the eight stages of the psy-
chosocial life cycle.
Answer: Erickson
Question 3: Select two causes of dissociative amnesia.
Answer: Sexual abuse and Partner Betrayal
Question 4: Select the patient evaluation scale to be used before and during
prescribing antipsychotic drugs.
Answer: AIMS
Question 5: Select the two comorbid disorders with which Pica occurs most
commonly.
Answer: Autism and Intellectual disability
Question 6: Select the prognosis range of untreated PTSD patients.
Answer: 20% recover, 10% mild symptoms, 40% moderate symptoms, 30%
no change or worse
Question 7: Select the memory category retained in transient global amnesia
that is absent in dissociative amnesia.
Answer: Sequential events
Question 8: The following is NOT an endocrine change noted with anorexia
nervosa.
Answer: Eating with friends but not Family
Question 9: Select the two most important elements of the psychiatric inter-
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, view to establish a mental illness diagnosis.
Answer: Psychiatrist History and mental status examination
Question 10: Select the greatest impediment to treat anorexia nervosa pa-
tients.
Answer: Patient Resistance
Question 11: Select the sleep disorder in which cataplexy is a common symp-
tom.
Answer: Central Apnea
Question 12: Select the obsessive-compulsive disorder for which a patient is
likely to initially seek help from a Primary Care Provider.
Answer: Hoarding
Question 13: Select the rating scale used to assess obsessive-compulsive disor-
der.
Answer: CAPS
Question 14: Select age after which encopresis may be correctly diagnosed.
Answer: 4
Question 15: Select the mood disorder that is worsened by chronic exposure
to observing violence in television, movies, and video games.
Answer: Dysthymia
Question 16: Mental Disorder (DSM).
Answer: A syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance
in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects
a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes
underlying mental functioning.
Question 17: When is a mental disorder considered diagnosable?
Answer: Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress
or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities.
Question 18: Syndrome.
Answer: A group or set of concurrent symptoms which, together, are in-
dicative of a disorder or disease.
Question 19: What is a syndrome a collection of?
Answer: Signs and symptoms.
Question 20: Symptom.
Answer: Any sign, physical or mental, that stands for or signifies something
(e.g., psychopathology).
Question 21: Sign.
Answer: Observable phenomena which may signify something (e.g., psy-
chopathology, behavioral disturbance).
Question 22: What sometimes makes a syndrome or a disorder?
Answer: A symptom and a sign.
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, Question 23: What is similar to a syndrome?
Answer: An episode.
Question 24: What are you going to find out from what the client might be
telling you?
Answer: Symptoms.
Question 25: What are some examples of symptoms?
Answer: Appetite loss, anxiety, depressed mood, auditory hallucinations.
Question 26: What are some examples of signs?
Answer: Tearful, agitation, severe weight loss.
Question 27: What is something you don’t want to do when making a diagno-
sis?
Answer: Telescoping.
Question 28: Telescoping.
Answer: When you see a symptom and decide it is a disorder. Jumping to
conclusions.
Question 29: What are some issues to keep in mind in regards to diagnosis?
Answer: 1. Signs are used interchangeably for symptoms. 2. One symptom
does not constitute a disorder.
Question 30: What are some cases for when you may want to make a diagnosis
off of one disorder?
Answer: 1. Sometimes a symptom (e.g., sleep disturbance) appears in a
number of disorder descriptions. 2. Other times there are symptoms (e.g.,
auditory hallucinations) that strongly suggest a certain disorder (however,
rendering a diagnosis based upon a single symptom).
Question 31: Select the development time of symptoms in neuroleptic malig-
nant syndrome. A. 12-24 hours B. 24-72 hours C. 4-7 days D.10-
14 days.
Answer: B. 24-72 hours
Question 32: Select the brain region that shows the greatest anatomical abnor-
malities in schizophrenic patients. A. Hippocampus B. Amygdala
C. Prefrontal cortex D. Basal ganglia.
Answer: C. Prefrontal cortex
Question 33: Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive
impairment. A. General cognition B. Activities of daily living C.
Geographic orientation D. Recent memory.
Answer: D. Recent memory
Question 34: Select the time frame for symptoms of schizophreniform disorder.
A. 2 to 6 weeks B. 1 to 5 months C. 6 to 8 months D. 1 year.
Answer: B. 1 to 5 months
Question 35: Select two comorbid factors common in schizophrenic patients.
Answer: Obesity, DM
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY EXAM
PRACTICE EXPERT-VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND UPDATED
QUESTIONS FOR WALDEN
UNIVERSITY 2025
1 Midterm Exam Practice Questions and Answers
Question 1: Select the serum assessment that is used when prescribing drugs
to treat psychiatric disorders in psychosomatic patients.
Answer: Potassium
Question 2: Select the theorist who developed the eight stages of the psy-
chosocial life cycle.
Answer: Erickson
Question 3: Select two causes of dissociative amnesia.
Answer: Sexual abuse and Partner Betrayal
Question 4: Select the patient evaluation scale to be used before and during
prescribing antipsychotic drugs.
Answer: AIMS
Question 5: Select the two comorbid disorders with which Pica occurs most
commonly.
Answer: Autism and Intellectual disability
Question 6: Select the prognosis range of untreated PTSD patients.
Answer: 20% recover, 10% mild symptoms, 40% moderate symptoms, 30%
no change or worse
Question 7: Select the memory category retained in transient global amnesia
that is absent in dissociative amnesia.
Answer: Sequential events
Question 8: The following is NOT an endocrine change noted with anorexia
nervosa.
Answer: Eating with friends but not Family
Question 9: Select the two most important elements of the psychiatric inter-
1
, view to establish a mental illness diagnosis.
Answer: Psychiatrist History and mental status examination
Question 10: Select the greatest impediment to treat anorexia nervosa pa-
tients.
Answer: Patient Resistance
Question 11: Select the sleep disorder in which cataplexy is a common symp-
tom.
Answer: Central Apnea
Question 12: Select the obsessive-compulsive disorder for which a patient is
likely to initially seek help from a Primary Care Provider.
Answer: Hoarding
Question 13: Select the rating scale used to assess obsessive-compulsive disor-
der.
Answer: CAPS
Question 14: Select age after which encopresis may be correctly diagnosed.
Answer: 4
Question 15: Select the mood disorder that is worsened by chronic exposure
to observing violence in television, movies, and video games.
Answer: Dysthymia
Question 16: Mental Disorder (DSM).
Answer: A syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance
in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects
a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes
underlying mental functioning.
Question 17: When is a mental disorder considered diagnosable?
Answer: Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress
or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities.
Question 18: Syndrome.
Answer: A group or set of concurrent symptoms which, together, are in-
dicative of a disorder or disease.
Question 19: What is a syndrome a collection of?
Answer: Signs and symptoms.
Question 20: Symptom.
Answer: Any sign, physical or mental, that stands for or signifies something
(e.g., psychopathology).
Question 21: Sign.
Answer: Observable phenomena which may signify something (e.g., psy-
chopathology, behavioral disturbance).
Question 22: What sometimes makes a syndrome or a disorder?
Answer: A symptom and a sign.
2
, Question 23: What is similar to a syndrome?
Answer: An episode.
Question 24: What are you going to find out from what the client might be
telling you?
Answer: Symptoms.
Question 25: What are some examples of symptoms?
Answer: Appetite loss, anxiety, depressed mood, auditory hallucinations.
Question 26: What are some examples of signs?
Answer: Tearful, agitation, severe weight loss.
Question 27: What is something you don’t want to do when making a diagno-
sis?
Answer: Telescoping.
Question 28: Telescoping.
Answer: When you see a symptom and decide it is a disorder. Jumping to
conclusions.
Question 29: What are some issues to keep in mind in regards to diagnosis?
Answer: 1. Signs are used interchangeably for symptoms. 2. One symptom
does not constitute a disorder.
Question 30: What are some cases for when you may want to make a diagnosis
off of one disorder?
Answer: 1. Sometimes a symptom (e.g., sleep disturbance) appears in a
number of disorder descriptions. 2. Other times there are symptoms (e.g.,
auditory hallucinations) that strongly suggest a certain disorder (however,
rendering a diagnosis based upon a single symptom).
Question 31: Select the development time of symptoms in neuroleptic malig-
nant syndrome. A. 12-24 hours B. 24-72 hours C. 4-7 days D.10-
14 days.
Answer: B. 24-72 hours
Question 32: Select the brain region that shows the greatest anatomical abnor-
malities in schizophrenic patients. A. Hippocampus B. Amygdala
C. Prefrontal cortex D. Basal ganglia.
Answer: C. Prefrontal cortex
Question 33: Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive
impairment. A. General cognition B. Activities of daily living C.
Geographic orientation D. Recent memory.
Answer: D. Recent memory
Question 34: Select the time frame for symptoms of schizophreniform disorder.
A. 2 to 6 weeks B. 1 to 5 months C. 6 to 8 months D. 1 year.
Answer: B. 1 to 5 months
Question 35: Select two comorbid factors common in schizophrenic patients.
Answer: Obesity, DM
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