Psychotic Disorders — Flashcards

_____ is the desire to live as the opposite sex, often through surgery or hormone treatment

_____ is sexual pleasure from dressing as the opposite sex (cross-dressing)

in cognitive testing; asking the patient to draw intersecting pentagons tests _____ skills

Which ego defense is defined as proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons (usually to avoid self-blame)? _____

Which ego defense is defined as believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity? _____

False pregnancy, or _____, is the belief that one is pregnant when they aren't really

Autism spectrum disorder is more common in _____ (gender)

Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by acute onset "waxing and waning" level of consciousness? _____

_____ syndrome is a chronic factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs/symptoms

_____ are characteristic of Korsakoff syndrome