2024 Prite Part I Questions And Answers
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Object constancy - ANSWER✔✔According to Margaret Mahler's developmental
theory of psychology, which of the following indicates a successful resolution of
the process of separation-individuation in a toddler?
Synaptic pruning - ANSWER✔✔Which of the following neurodevelopmental
processes predominantly occurs during adolescence and young adulthood?
Cohort study - ANSWER✔✔Medical record data was used to estimate the
prevalence of diabetes among patients who started on an antipsychotic medication.
Which of the following best describes this study design?
Poverty of speech - ANSWER✔✔An 80-year-old presents with depressed mood
and cognitive decline. The patient answers the interviewer's questions with brief,
one-word responses and rare spontaneous elaboration. This is an example of which
of the following?
Schedule frequent brief follow-up appontments - ANSWER✔✔Despite an
extensive workup, no medical etiology can be identified as the cause of a patient's
leg pain and weakness. The patient's primary care physician suspects a diagnosis of
somatic symptom disorder. Which of the following responses is the most
appropriate next step?
ODD - ANSWER✔✔Over the last six months a ten-year-old child has been
exhibiting anger and temper tantrums. The child has been deliberately annoying
others and blaming this misbehavior on classmates. This has led to multiple
disciplinary actions at school. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Depersonalization/derealization disorder - ANSWER✔✔A patient presents to the
psychiatrist with the complaint of, "I think I'm going crazy." The patient reports
that she often feels as if she has "no self" and her thoughts are not her own. In fact,
she often feels like a robot and as if she is unable to control her body. She states
that she knows she has feelings but is not able to feel them, instead feeling
emotionally numb, and she frequently feels that her head is "full of cotton."
,Recently, she has begun having "out of body" experiences. Which of the following
is the most likely diagnosis?
Conditioned response - ANSWER✔✔A cancer patient becomes nauseous when
seeing a commercial on television for the local cancer center where they receive
chemotherapy. The patient's nausea is best described as what element of classical
conditioning?
Fluoxetine - ANSWER✔✔In the 1970's, evidence for the role of serotonin in
depression and a desire to develop drugs with a better side effect profile than the
tricyclics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors, led to the development of which of
the following medications?
Prion disease - ANSWER✔✔A 72-year-old patient is seen for a six-month history
of rapid dementia, gait unsteadiness and jerky movements. Electroencephalogram
(EEG) demonstrates a periodic discharge with sharp waves occurring every one
second. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Collaborative care - ANSWER✔✔A primary care practice follows patient progress
through a registry. Each patient is assigned a primary care provider and a
behavioral health care manager. A psychiatrist is consistently available to these
providers for consultation. This arrangement is best described by which model?
Effectiveness trials - ANSWER✔✔Which of the following types of research
studies is most likely to result in external validity?
Mirtazapine - ANSWER✔✔Which antidepressant has demonstrated efficacy in the
treatment of akathisia?
Alpha - ANSWER✔✔An awake electroencephalogram (EG) in a patient with
encephalopathy will show which of the following waves?
Nonmaleficence - ANSWER✔✔A 16-year-old patient was brought to the
emergency room after an overdose of acetaminophen in a suicide attempt. After
medical stabilization, the parents demand that the patient return home rather than
going to a psychiatric hospital for continuing suicidal ideation. The psychiatrist
decides that the patient should remain in the hospital due to being a danger to self.
This action by the psychiatrist is best described by which ethical principle?
, Disinhibition impulsivity and tactlessness - ANSWER✔✔Lesions to the
orbitofrontal-subcortical circuit produce which of the following behaviors?
Arcuate fasciculus - ANSWER✔✔Which of the following connects the frontal and
temporal lobes?
Fluctuating consciousness - ANSWER✔✔An elderly patient with confusion is
admitted and a psychiatric consultation is sought. In discerning delirium from
dementia, depression, or psychosis, which of the following aspects of the mental
status is most important?
Kava - ANSWER✔✔A 38-year-old with a long history of social anxiety and
treatment with clonazepam is brought to the emergency room disoriented and
confused. Neurological exam is notable for dyskinesias of the upper extremities.
Which of the following, if taken in conjunction with the currently prescribed
medication, is most likely to cause these symptoms?
The psychiatrist's use of coercion invalidated informed consent - ANSWER✔✔An
agitated patient with bipolar disorder, manic, was evaluated in the emergency
department and resisted voluntary psychiatric hospitalization. The frustrated
psychiatrist said to the patient "You can come in voluntarily and choose when you
will be discharged, or I will involuntarily hospitalize you so that you have no say
in how long you stay in the hospital." The patient had made no threat of suicide or
violence towards others. Which of the following best explains why the
psychiatrist's decision does not meet the standard of care?
Frequency of channel opening in response to GABA - ANSWER✔✔The primary
mechanism of action of benzodiazepines at GABA-A receptors is to increase
which of the following?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - ANSWER✔✔A meta-analysis of multiple
clinical trials found a modest increased risk of suicidality when adolescents were
treated with which of the following classes of agents?
Serum electrolytes - ANSWER✔✔A 65-year-old patient is prescribed sertraline
for depression and within weeks develops waxing and waning impairment of
alertness, attention and memory. Vital signs and physical examination are within
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