PRITE Psychology Update QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A.

PRITE (Psychology) Update QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A.

1. Which of the following sources of pain is thought
to have a primarily central (non-nociceptive) mechanism?
A. Cancer pain
B. Fibromyalgia
C. Osteoarthritis
D. Diabetic neuropathy
E. Postherpetic neuralgia
2. A patient presents with mild memory impairment,
tearfulness, insomnia, and blurry vision.The patient
acts as if blind, cannot locate objects in the visual field, has left-right disorientation and alexia, and
misses objects when instructed to reach for them.
The patient only identifies a single object in a drawing
of overlapping objects. Despite requiring prompts to
visually follow objects, cranial nerves, motor function, reflexes, and movement and color detection are
otherwise intact. Which of the following is the most
likely cause of the visual disturbance?
A. Cerebral infarct
B. Frontotemporal dementia
C. Progressive supranuclear palsy
D. Major depression with psychotic features
E. Functional neurological symptom disorder
3. Variable phenotypic expression of 15q13 deletion depends on whether the encoding gene is derived from
the father or the mother. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as:
A. Genomic printing
B. Genomic expression
C. Linkage disequilibrium
D. Balanced translocation
E. Recombination frequency
B. Fibromyalgia
A. Cerebral infarct
A. Genomic printing