Exam Part I Jan - Without PDF
Exam Part I Jan - Without PDF
Exam Part I Jan - Without PDF
2018
5. Pruning refers to
A. excitotoxicity
B. the addition of cells to the nervous system during development
C. the process of eliminating the branching of dendrites of the brain
D. the programmed elimination of neurons, synapses and axons
E. all of the above
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7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of fetal alcohol syndrome?
A. Microphthalmia
B. CNS manifestations
C. Hyperactivity
D. Attention deficits
E. Withdrawal-like symptoms
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8. In which period is the “band-aid phase” present?
A. Toddler period
B. Preschool period
C. Infancy period
D. Middle years period
E. None of the above
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13. Which of the following is true about Piaget’s approach to cognitive
development?
A. Cognitive growth occurs in invariant stages.
B. The sensorimotor stage is from ages 2 years to 7 years.
C. Object constancy is the ability to remember an object once it is out of sight.
D. Preoperational thought is nonsymbolic.
E. Concrete operational thought is illogical.
15. Which of the following medical interventions requires parental consent for
adolescents under the age of 16?
A. Alcohol counseling
B. Treatment for a sexually transmitted disease
C. Inpatient mental health treatment
D. Birth control pills or other contraception
E. Treatment for an AIDS-related illness
16. Compared to nonadopted children, adopted children are more likely to have:
A. problems with drug abuse
B. aggressive behavior
C. learning disturbances
D. conduct disorders
E. all of the above
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18. Which of the following is not one of the basic personality traits found to
remain relatively stable throughout life?
A. Openness to experience
B. Confidence8
C. Conscientiousness
D. Neuroticism
E. Extraversion
19. Positive physiological effects of exercise and nutrition in old age include:
A. increased heart volume and weight
B. increased muscle mass and body density
C. decreased heart rate at rest
D. decreased systolic blood pressure
E. all of the above
22. In which of the following age groups is the stage of preoperational thought
present?
A. Birth to 2 years
B. 2 to 7 years
C. 7 to 11 years
D. 11 through the end of adolescence
E. None of the above
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E. persons will attribute their own behavior to situational causes
24. Learning can be reflected in neural changes in which of the following ways?
A. The growth of new neurons
B. The expansion of existing neurons
C. Changes in connectivity between existing neurons
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
26. True statements about violence and aggression include all of the following
except
A. In the United States, homicide is the second leading cause of death among people
15 to 25 years of age.
B. A young black man is 8 times more likely to be murdered than is a white man of
the same age.
C. Less than 50 percent of people who commit homicides or assaultive behavior have
imbibed significant amounts of alcohol immediately beforehand.
D. The best predictor of violent acts is a previous violent act.
E. More than 70 percent of homicides are committed with handguns.
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E. 47-XXX
32. Asian patients seem to achieve a clinical response comparable to those of non-
Asian patients, even though they require a significantly lower dose of
A. lithium
B. antipsychotics
C. tricyclics
D. benzodiazepines
E. all of the above
33. The “choo-choo” phenomenon is associated with which of the following types
of social deprivation in monkeys?
A. Total isolation-reared monkeys
B. Mother-only-reared monkeys
C. Peer-only-reared monkeys
D. Partial isolation-reared monkeys
E. Separation-reared monkeys
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C. cultural environment
D. violence in movies
E. curiosity
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E. in the form of ten clinical scales, each of which was derived empirically from
heterogeneous groups
44. An intelligence quotient (IQ) of 100 corresponds to intellectual ability for the
general population in the
A. 20th percentile
B. 25th percentile
C. 40th percentile
D. 50th percentile
E. 65th percentile
45. After taking the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale(WAIS), a patient showed
that poor concentration and attention had adversely influenced the answers on
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one of the subtests. Select the WAIS subtest that most likely screened the patient
for these symptoms.
A. arithmetic
B. block design
C. digit symbol
D. comprehension
E. picture completion
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e. always irreversible after the age of five
56. When patient is aroused and threatening, the situation may be helped by
One of the followings:
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a. avoiding eye contact
b. moving close to the patient
c. holding hands away from the patients
d. moving to a smaller room
e. knowing the patient
58. Regarding Personal Construct Theory, which one of the following is true?
a. emphasizes cognition influences of behaviour
b. postulates core constructs underlay criminality
c. proposes personality in terms of defences
d. using the repertory grid as constructing device
e. includes externally construed concepts as determining influences of
personality
59. Regarding Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test, which of the following is true?
a. is scored as percentage
b. measures recall of learned information
c. correlates highly with IQ scores
d. is suitable as a screening test for people with poor intellectual abilities
e. is relatively complicated to use
60. Regarding the relationship between arousal and performance, which one of
the following is true?
a. has been expressed graphically in a linear form
b. indicates that for every task there is an optimal level of arousal
c. is independent of the type of arousing stimulus
d. may be measured by physiological indices that correlate well
e. shows that maximal arousal is required in exams
61. With regards to the clinical application of learning theory, which one of the
following is true?
a. systemic desensitisation is the appropriate treatment for Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorders
b. a graded hierarchy of feared situations is an essential component of Systemic
Desensitisation
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c. the expectation of patients have no bearing on the effectiveness of treatment
d. social learning theory emphasises the tendency to conform with the social
norms
e. social learning theory is less effective than classic behavioural approaches in
the management of neurosis
63. Which one of the following is associated with the name Carl Gustav Jung?
a. manic defence
b. Electra complex
c. infantile sexuality
d. extroversion and introversion
e. collective unconscious
64. Which one of the following tools is used to establish classifications systems?
a. Cluster analysis
b. 2-way ANOVA
c. Mann-Whitney U test
d. Path analysis
e. T-test
65. In a study with a repeated measures design which one of the following would
be appropriate?
a. Correlation coefficient
b. Factor analysis
c. Chi-square
d. Cluster analysis
e. ANOVA
66. The following are true regarding dependent variable except one:
a. Is not manipulated by the experimenter
b. Is measured by the experimenter
c. Is statistically analysable
d. Under rigorous experimental control
e. Is important in psychiatric research
67. Which one of the following statements about rating scales is false?
a. They are prone to response sets
b. Graphic scales are preferable to numerical scales
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c. Concepts used in scales should be operationally defined in order to increase
reliability.
d. Thurstone scales are used to measure depression
e. Observer completed rating scales are prone to the 'halo effect'
68. Which one of the following statements regarding 'present state examination'
is false?
a. Was devised by Wing et al.
b. Is a semi-structured interview
c. Covers patients' symptomatology during the previous 4 weeks
d. Generates information necessary to diagnose alcoholism
e. Was used as a diagnostic instrument in the international pilot study of
schizophrenia
70. In a trial of a new psychotropic drug; which one of the following is true?
a. Permission from an ethical committee in not advised
b. double-blind procedures are mandatory by law
c. the patient’s second degree relatives must be included in consenting
d. patients aged 18 and over can give consent
e. the lawyer must be informed
71. The following are true of null hypothesis testing except one:
a. the power of a study refers to the probability that a type I error will not be
made
b. falsely rejecting a true null hypothesis is called a type I error
c. failure to reject a false null hypothesis is called type II error
d. the larger the study size, The higher is its power for detecting a true difference
between two treatments
e. the null hypothesis is generally rejected if the p-value is less than 0.05
72. The following are true about the reliability of a measurement except one:
a. inter-rater reliability describes the level of agreement between two or more
assessors at the same time
b. intra-rater describes the assessments by same raters of the same materials at
different times
c. test-retest reliability describes the agreement of observers assessing the same
materials at two different times
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d. alternative form reliability describes two similar forms of the measurement
used to assess the same material
e. split-half reliability involves dividing a measurement into two halves, and
using each half to assess the same material
73. All the following are correct about standard deviation except one:
a. it is a measure of dispersion or scatter of observation
b. it involves taking a square root
c. it increases with the sample size
d. it is an extremely sensitive measure of variation
e. it is calculated from the deviation of individual observations from the mean
74. Which of the following is false regarding the standard error of the mean?
a. it can be used to calculate confidence limits of the mean from random sample
b. it is derived from the standard deviation
c. it is always larger than the standard deviation
d. it depends on the size of the sample
e. it reflects the underlying variation in the population
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c. the t test
d. Chi square test
e. Spearman’s rank correlation
79. The following are true about null hypothesis except one:
a. it suggests that the experiment will be inconclusive
b. it attempts to account for differences due to chance
c. it implies that comparison is involved
d. it stands to the opposite to the experimental hypothesis
e. it is rejected when p equal or less than 0.05
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84. Regarding atypical antipsychotics, which one of the following endocrine
abnormalities has been shown?
a. Olanzapine produced minimal increase in body mass index
b. Risperidone induces significantly greater elevation in triglyceride than
Olanzapine
c. The Olanzapine- induced elevation of triglyceride plateau by 6 months
d. Elevation in cholesterol and LDL (low density lipids) were consistently
present with both Olanzapine and Risperidone
e. The is a minimal risk for ultimate development of type II Diabetes
Mellitus in patients treated with Olanzapine
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89. Which one of the following definitions is an accurate Quantitative
Variable in Neuropharmacology?
a. Zero-order elimination follows an exponential decline
b. zero-order elimination means that the rate of elimination is
proportional to the drug concentration
c. plasma half-life is the time taken for the plasma concentration to fall
by half
d. biological half-life is the time taken for the total amount of the drug in
the serum to decline by one half
e. steady state means that the amount of drug entering the body equals
the half life of the drug
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94. In neuroleptic malignant syndrome which one of the following is a
recognized feature?
a. hypothermia is common
b. level of consciousness is preserved
c. mortality around 1 %
d. muscle tone is deceased
e. the blood pressure is labile
98. Which one of the following has been shown regarding the atypical
anti-psychotic drugs?
a. Clozapine has high affinity for D2 site, but it has low affinity for 5HT2
and 5HT3 receptors
b. Risperidone has a lower affinity for D2 and 5HT2 receptors than
Clozapine
c. Quetiapine has a high affinity to D2 and moderate affinity for the
muscarinic Binding site
d. Olanzapine has relatively low muscarinic and histaminergic blockade
e. Ziprasidone has the highest 5HT2/D2 ratio
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99. atypical antipsychotic drugs:
a. have no incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms
b. are selective dopamine D2 or D3 receptor antagonists
c. are all 5-HT2 antagonists
d. have been shown to have limbic selective action in pre-clinical tests
e. are all effective in primary enduring negative symptoms
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