Psychiatry_Psychopathology

Question 1

Disorientation appears in:
A) Korsakoff syndrome
B) Acute schizophrenic episode
C) Hypomania
D) Depression
E) Agoraphobia

Answer 1

A) Korsakoff syndrome

Question 2

Perception without objective stimulus:
A) Hallucination
B) Illusion
C) Delusion
D) Derealisation
E) Depersonalisation

Answer 2

A) Hallucination

Question 3

Short-term memory loss is a typical symptom in:
A) Mania
B) Depression
C) Schizophrenia
D) Korsakoff syndrome
E) Panic disorder

Answer 3

D) Korsakoff syndrome

Question 4

A patient starts to cry without any reason. The phenomenon can be:
A) Blunted affect
B) Anhedonia
C) Anxiety
D) Emotional incontinence
E) Alexithymia

Answer 4

D) Emotional incontinence

Question 5

Hallucination is a symptom of:
A) Thinking
B) Sensorium
C) Attention
D) Perception
E) Mood

Answer 5

D) Perception

Question 6

The patient said during the interview that he had seen two birds in the window. This meant to him that 2 weeks later he will suffer a serious injury. This symptom is a/an:
A) Illusion
B) Hallucination
C) Delusion
D) Neologism

Answer 6

C) Delusion

Question 7

The most important characteristic of psychosis is:
A) Thought disorder
B) Schizophrenia
C) Bipolar affective disorder
D) Disturbed reality-testing
E) Hostility

Answer 7

D) Disturbed reality-testing

Question 8

An old, confused patient is admitted to the hospital. When the doctor asks ’How old are you‘, he answers: ’70 years‘. The doctor asks ’Where are we now?’, the patient answers: ’70 years’. How is this phenomenon called?
A) Coprolalia
B) Rumination
C) Compulsion
D) Perseveration
E) Echolalia

Answer 8

D) Perseveration

Question 9

An 8-year-old child with high fever sees the curtain moving. He tells his mother that an animal is coming in through the window. The symptom is:
A) Delusion
B) Fantasy
C) Hallucination
D) Illusion
E) Phobia

Answer 9

D) Illusion

Question 10

Which is not true about alexithymia?
A) well-being of a depressed patient
B) the inability to identify and communicate the emotions of others and one’s own
C) eating disorder
D) sleep disorder
E) inability to read in foreign language

Answer 10

B) the inability to identify and communicate the emotions of others and one’s own

Question 11

All of the following are examples of symptoms of the form of thinking, except:
A) Delusion
B) Flight of ideas
C) Logorrhea

Answer 11

A) Delusion

Question 12

A female patient has a delusion that his boss loves her, the symptom is:
A) Erotic delusion
B) Erotomania
C) Transitivism
D) None of the above

Answer 12

B) Erotomania

Question 13

In psychotic depression the patient delusionally believes that he is not alive. The name of the symptom is:
A) Nihilistic delusion
B) Anxiety
C) Horror vacui
D) None of the above

Answer 13

A) Nihilistic delusion

Question 14

The hallucinatory voices instruct the patient to do something, the name of the symptom is:
A) Delusion of influence
B) Command hallucination
C) Somatic hallucinations
D) None of the above

Answer 14

B) Command hallucination

Question 15

Delusion of infestation is also known as:
A) Capgras symptom
B) Ekbom symptom
C) Cotard symptom
D) None of the above

Answer 15

B) Ekbom symptom

Question 16

Ganser syndrome is commonly seen in:
A) Schizophrenia
B) Mania
C) Pick disease
D) Learning disabilities
E) Prisoners awaiting trial

Answer 16

E) Prisoners awaiting trial

Question 17

The patient in stupor spits out the food, the name of the symptom is:
A) Passive negativism
B) Pica
C) Active negativism
D) Rumination

Answer 17

C) Active negativism

Question 18

Somatic hallucinations are typical in:
A) Schizophrenia
B) Mania
C) Panic disorder
D) None of the above

Answer 18

A) Schizophrenia

Question 19

Abstract thinking can be examined by the:
A) Interpretation of proverbs
B) Ziehen probe
C) Bourdon probe
D) None of the above

Answer 19

A) Interpretation of proverbs

Question 20

The patient has a delusion that his mother is replaced by a double. The name of the symptom is:
A) Frégoli symptom
B) Cotard symptom
C) Capgras symptom
D) De Clérambault symptom

Answer 20

C) Capgras symptom

Question 21

Characteristics of illusion:
1) Misinterpretation of outer stimuli
2) More common in organic brain disorders
3) Not a necessary sign of psychosis
4) Have normal variants as well
A) only the 1st, 2nd and 3rd answers are correct
B) only the 1st and 3rd answers are correct
C) only the 2nd and 4th answers are correct
D) only the 4th answer is correct
E) all of the answers are correct

Answer 21

E) all of the answers are correct

1) Misinterpretation of outer stimuli
2) More common in organic brain disorders
3) Not a necessary sign of psychosis
4) Have normal variants as well

Question 22

If somebody is disoriented, probably he/she will not know:
1) The date
2) Where he/she is
3) Which season it is
4) What his/her name is
A) only the 1st, 2nd and 3rd answers are correct
B) only the 1st and 3rd answers are correct
C) only the 2nd and 4th answers are correct
D) only the 4th answer is correct
E) all of the answers are correct

Answer 22

E) all of the answers are correct

1) The date
2) Where he/she is
3) Which season it is
4) What his/her name is

Question 23

Grandiose delusions can appear in:
1) Schizophrenia
2) Mania
3) Frontal lobe syndrome
4) Amphetamin intoxication
A) only the 1st, 2nd and 3rd answers are correct
B) only the 1st and 3rd answers are correct
C) only the 2nd and 4th answers are correct
D) only the 4th answer is correct
E) all of the answers are correct

Answer 23

E) all of the answers are correct

1) Schizophrenia
2) Mania
3) Frontal lobe syndrome
4) Amphetamin intoxication

Question 24

Delusions do not occur in the following diseases:
A) affective diseases
B) organic brain diseases
C) paranoid symptoms
D) panic disorder
E) schizophrenia spectrum

Answer 24

D) panic disorder

Question 25

Which of the following is not a motor disorder seen in schizophrenia? A) Catatonia B) Cataplexy C) Negativism D) Waxy flexibility E) Automatic obedience

Answer 25

B) Cataplexy