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MRCPSYCH Exam 2024: Questions & Accurate Solutions
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MRCPSYCH Exam 2024: Questions & Accurate SolutionsDementia Rating Scale Right Ans - clinician-administered test
covers five cognitive domains (attention, initiation and perseveration,
construction, conceptualization, and memory).
Within each domain specific items are presented in hierarchical fashion, with
the most difficult items presented first.
Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST Right Ans - 25 "yes/no" items
concerning alcohol use. The MAST also includes questions about tolerance and
withdrawal
self rated
A cutoff score of 129 or 130 has been associated with 97% sensitivity and
99% specificity in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease
Best differentiating symptom in clinical studies of without somatic and with
somatic symptoms Right Ans - Psychomotor disturbance
What is a primary reinforcer Right Ans - Stimulus affecting biological needs
2 major types of learning Right Ans - Non-associative: Simple learning that
does not require pairing/operation
Associative: via association with 2 events
What are phonemes? Right Ans - basic speech sounds
What is syntax? Right Ans - Sentence structure
Rules for combining words into phrases
Language is slower to develop in (4) Right Ans - Boys
Twins
large families
Deaf and neglected children
Babbling is seen by Right Ans - 3-6 months
,At 12 months, speech has Right Ans - 3 words
At what age does infant speech have 40 words Right Ans - 18 months
At what age does infant have telegraphic speech and 240 words Right Ans -
24 months
At what age is there correct use of grammer Right Ans - 48 months
Who stated that children are born with Innate Language Acquisition Device
Right Ans - Noam Chomsky
Peer rejection can lead to what (2) Right Ans - Depression
School drop-out
4 characteristics of popular children Right Ans - Respond positively to
unfamiliar environments
Blend smoothly with new peers
Pleasant temperament
Academic skills
Is cognitive development essential for moral development Right Ans -
Essential but not sufficient
According to Piaget, moral development from 5-9 years is characterised by (4)
Right Ans - Punishment based on outcome
Moral realism: strong punishment for any crime
Imminent justice: world is just
Rules are written by others (heteronomous morality
According to Piaget, moral development from older than 10 years is
characterised by (4) Right Ans - Laws can be changed by consensus
Motivation describes punishment
Punishment should match the crime
Rules can be self made
Eisenbergs stages of moral development is based on Right Ans - Prosocial
reasoning
,Kohlberg's and Piaget are based on prohibition of the wrong
4 components of emotional literacy are Right Ans - Knowing your feelings
Having empathy
emotional regulation
repairing emotional problems
What % of children have imaginary friends Right Ans - 50% age 3-10 years
What are associated with imaginary friends? Right Ans - Usually in children
with above average intelligence
In the forms of persons
Friendly
Most disappear by age of 12
Fear of dark is evident by Right Ans - age 4-5
Fear of animals Right Ans - Age 3
Fear of imaginary creatures/monsters Right Ans - 5 +
Fears that show no age trend Right Ans - Fear of snakes and storms
At what age are children preoccupied with illness and injury Right Ans - 3-
6 years
Band Aid Phase
Gender identity is established by what age Right Ans - 3-4
Starts forming by age 2
Social Learning theory of gender identity development Right Ans - Boys
and girls behave differently because society treats them differently
Cognitive development theory of gender identity Right Ans - Discovery
about biological sex leads to identification with a group
Gender consistency is evident by Right Ans - Ages 6-7
, Anterior pituitary is regulated by neurohormones from what area of
hypothalamus Right Ans - Parvocellular N.
Posterior pituitary releases 2 hormones produced in what areas of
hypothalamus Right Ans - Supraoptic N
Paraventricular N
what hypothalamic hormone releases GH Right Ans - GHRH
GHRH release of GH is disturbed in what 2 conditions? Right Ans -
Depression
Anorexia
GH release is increased by (3) Right Ans - Sleep
Exercise
Stress
Increase in Prolactin levels are associated with (3) Right Ans - pregnancy
lactation
sleep
Oxytocin promotes Right Ans - mammalian bonding
antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is increased by (4) Right Ans - nicotine
stress
morphine
barbiturates
Somatostatin Right Ans - hormone that inhibits release of growth hormone
and insulin
What thyroid hormone is more active? Right Ans - T3
T4 more predominant
Blunted TSH response to TRH is seen in (4) Right Ans - Depression
AN
ETOH withdrawal
Mania
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