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    lOMoARcPSD|28205643 NEWLY UPDATED NRNP 6635 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | REAL EXAMS | 2023-2024

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    Question 1 Select the mental function that is most affected in mild cognitive impairment. Selected Answer: D. Recent memory Question 2 Select the most frequent cause of infant and childhood intellectual disability that is at tri bu te d to a sp ec i fi c ge ne . Se

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    le ct ed Answer: C. Down syndrome Question 3 Select the neurotransmitter that is most associated with the occurrence of ADHD. Selected Answer: B. Dopamine Question 4 NRNP 6635 FINAL EXAM – QUESTION AND ANSWERS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED SUCCESSLATEST 2023 DOWNLOAD A+ GRADE

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    Select the most reliable method to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Selected Answer: Therefore, a patient’s history is essential for the diagnosis of schizophrenia; clinicians cannot diagnose schizophrenia simply by results of a mental status examination, which may vary. D. Patient history Question 5 Select the characteristic that is greater in childhood than adult onset schizophrenia. Selected Answer: B. Social withdrawal Question 6 Select the personality disorder in which patients are continually in crisis and exhibit unpredictable behavior. Selected Answer: C. Borderline Question 7

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    Select the factor that best correlates with attempted and completed suicide. Selected Answer: A. Mental illness Question 8 Select the brain region that shows the greatest anatomical abnormalities in schizophrenic patients. Selected By the end of the 20th century, however, researchers had made signi fi cant strides in revealing a potential neuropathological basis for schizophrenia, primarily in the limbic system and the basal ganglia, including neuropathological or neurochemical abnormalities in the cerebral cortex, the thalamus, and the brainstem. Because the basal ganglia and cerebellum are involved in the control of movement, disease in these areas is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Answer: D. Basal ganglia Question 9 Select the gender dysphoria in which genital surgery is usually not chosen. Selected NRNP 6635 FINAL EXAM – QUESTION AND ANSWERS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED SUCCESS

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    Answer: but who maintain a gender identity that is the same as their birth-assigned gender known as crossdressers. C. Crossdresser Question 10 Select the antipsychotic drug for which the labeling carries a black box warning for agranul ocyt osis. Sele cted Ans wer: A. Clozapine Question 11 Select the time of onset for tolerance to develop from continuous use of hallucinogens suc h as LSD

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    Answer: Tolerance, particularly to the sensory and other psychological effects, is evident as soon as the second or third day of successive LSD use. Four to 6 days free of LSD are necessary to lose signi fi cant tolerance. B.4-7 days Question 12 Select the drug of choice to treat psychosis in delirious patients. Selected Answer: D. Haloperidol Question 13 Select the dysfunction that is common to 50% to 85% of schizophrenic patients. Selected Answer: Various studies have reported abnormal eye movements in 50 to 85 percent of patients with schizophrenia compared with about 25 percent in

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    psychiatric patients without schizophrenia and fewer than 10 percent in nonpsychiatrically ill control participant. D. Eye movement Question 14 Select two of the “Four A’s” symptoms of schizophrenia described by Bleuler. Selected These symptoms included associational disturbances of thought, especially looseness, affective disturbances, autism, and ambivalence, summarized as the four As: associations, affect, autism, and ambivalence. Answers: A. autism B. ambivalence Question 15 Select the personality disorder in which patients exhibit covert obstructionism, procrastination and pessimism. Selected In psychoanalytic terms, this phenomenon is called masochism and includes failure, procrastination, silly or provocative behavior, self-demeaning clowning, and frankly self-destructive acts. Answer: D. Passive aggressive NRNP 6635 FINAL EXAM – QUESTION AND

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    Select the negative symptom of schizophrenia. Selected Answer: A. Anhedonia Question 17 Select the main cause female orgasmic disorder. Selected Answer: B. Genetic Question 18 Select the age range for 90% of patients treated for schizophrenia. Selected Answer: About 90 percent of patients in treatment for schizophrenia are between 15 and 55 years old. B. 10-55 Question 19 Select the non-drug therapy in which mastery of anxiety through desensitization is

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    critical to successful treatment of sexual dysfunction. Selected Answer: The behavior therapist enables the patient to master the anxiety through a standard program of systematic desensitization, which is designed to inhibit the learned anxious response by encouraging behaviors antithetical to anxiety. \AC1336647530\BEHAVIORAL THERAPY C. Group Question 20 Select the disorder that is often comorbid with brief psychotic disorder. Selected Answer: Personality disorder is also a predisposing factor for other psychiatric disorders D. Personality Question 21

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    Select the psychoactive substance that is most frequently consumed worldwide. Selected Answer: Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world. B. Caffeine Question 22 Select the age range at which most children with gender dysphoria begin to show increased anxiety over anticipated changes to their bodies. Selected Answer: Gender identity crystallizes in most persons by age 2 or 3 years. Parents, however, typically report that the cross-gender behaviors were apparent before 3 years of age. Children typically begin to develop a sense of their gender identity around age 3. D. 3 to 4 Question 23 Select the theorist who fi rst studied social and cultural in fl uences on suicide. Selected

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    Answer: The fi rst major contribution to the study of the social and cultural in fl uences on suicide was made at the end of the 19th century by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim. B. Durkheim Question 24 Select the disorder in which is characterized by lack breast development. Selected Answer: Turner’s syndrome in a patient aged 23. Note webbed neck, increased carrying angle, failure of breast development, and lack of pubic hair. B.5- α -reductase de fi ciency Question 25 Select the age range of the highest rate of substance dependence or abuse. Selected

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    Answer: In 2012, the rate for dependence or abuse is highest among adults age 18 to 25 (19 percent) compared to youths age 12 to 17 (6 percent) and adults age 26 or older (7 percent). After age 21, a general decline occurred with age. B. 18-25 Question 26 Select two terms preferred to describe sexual orientation. Selected Answers: Hemosexual and Hecterosexual A. Gay D. Lesbian Question 27 Select the two patient populations in which delirium occurs most frequently. Selected Answers: B. Terminally ill C. Long-term care Question 28 Select the drug used to treat neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Selected Answer:

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