Psychiatry Question Bank Q2

  1. Dementia is characterized ail of the following statements, except:

A. Demented patients are often depressed

B. The ability to generalize from past experiences and to experiences and to recognize Hie relationship between similar situations is impaired

C. An early feature is an inability to recall events from the distant past

D. Demented patients may experience hallucinations

E. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease is a dementia caused by a slow virus infection

Every question or incomplete statement has only one answer in the following combination:

A. If the answers 1, 2, and 3 are true

B. If the answers 1 and 3 are true

C. If the answers 2 and 4 are true

D. If only the answer 4 is true

E. If all the four answers are true

  1. Intelligence tests have which of the following character­istics?

A. They compare the performance of an individual as compared to a large group

B. They are influenced by culture

C. They do not measure an individual’s entire intellectual capacity

D. They define an IQ of 100 as average

E. All of the above