Alzheimer disease is a form of:
A) psychosis.
B) dementia.
C) schizophrenia.
D) factitious disorder.
QUESTION 2When a parent or caregiver deliberately causes a child's illness to get attention, the parent has:
A) nyctophobia.
B) affective disorder.
C) Munchausen syndrome.
D) Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome.
QUESTION 3A serious mental disorder in which an individual cannot recognize reality and may also have delusions and hallucinations is called:
A) psychosis.
B) psychopathic disorder.
C) impulse control disorder.
D) hypomania.
QUESTION 4Risk for suicide appears to be highest in people with:
A) anxiety.
B) paranoia.
C) depression.
D) psychosis.
QUESTION 5Seeing or hearing things that are not present is called a/an:
A) anxiety reaction.
B) hallucination.
C) obsession.
D) manic episode.
QUESTION 6The need to check things over and over or to wash one's hands repeatedly because of a fear of germs is characteristic of which disorder?
A) PTSD
B) OCD
C) SAD
D) ADHD
QUESTION 7Persons with chronic worry and who realize that their worry and tension are greater than the situation warrants may be diagnosed with:
A) chronic depression.
B) schizophrenia.
C) generalized anxiety disorder.
D) apathy.
QUESTION 8Dysthymia is defined as:
A) a less-severe type of depression.
B) a mild bipolar disorder.
C) paranoia.
D) an eating disorder.
QUESTION 9DSM-5 is:
A) a diagnostic test.
B) a manual of mental disorders.
C) an antianxiety drug.
D) a psychotic disorder.
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