Psychiatric & DSM-V

Question 1

Occurs when a patient is unable to see others as sometimes good and sometimes bad. Instead, some patients use this as a defense mechanism, which causes them to view other people as either all good or all evil. It is commonly seen in patients with borderline personality disorder.

Answer 1

Splitting

Question 2

A defense mechanism that expels disturbing wishes from conscious awareness.

Answer 2

Repression

Question 3

A delusion that someone is in love with the patient or the patient feels infatuated with a person and tries to get them to reciprocate their passionate feelings, becoming enraged when they perceive rejection.

Answer 3

Erotomania

Question 4

A defense mechanism that attributes excessive positive qualities to another.

Answer 4

Idealization

Question 5

Condition that is focused on the patient’s great talents, status, skills, or knowledge.

Answer 5

Grandiose delusions

Question 6

A defense mechanism that attributes excessive negative qualities to another.

Answer 6

Devaluation

Question 7

Deeply held beliefs despite evidence to the contrary.

Answer 7

Delusions

Question 8

Perceptual disturbances involving one of the five senses.

Answer 8

Hallucinations

Question 9

Characterized by disorganized thinking, alterations in perception of reality, and an inability to care for oneself.

Answer 9

Psychosis

Question 10

Disorder characterized by chronically impaired cognition and may include changes in personality over time.

Answer 10

Dementia

Question 11

Characterized by an acute onset waxing and waning sensorium, inattentiveness, and distractibility, and can be caused by infection, new environment, and medications.

Answer 11

Delirium