Quick Quiz: DSM-5 Fill in the Blank

How well do you know your way around DSM-5? Here's a quick quiz with text taken (and redacted) from Wikipedia's psych pages. Your task: fill in the blank. Go!

1. Individuals with _____________ may experience hallucinations (most reported are hearing voices), delusions (often bizarre or persecutory in nature), and disorganized thinking and speech. The last may range from loss of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to speech that is not understandable known as word salad. Social withdrawal, sloppiness of dress and hygiene, and loss of motivation and judgment are all common.

2. _______________ are symptoms reflecting an excess or distortion of normal functions (i.e., experiences and behaviors that have been added to a person’s normal way of functioning). Examples are hallucinations, delusions, and bizarre behavior.

3. _______________ are functions that are normally found in healthy persons, but that are diminished or not present in affected persons. Thus, it is something that has disappeared from a person’s normal way of functioning. Examples are social withdrawal, apathy, inability to experience pleasure and defects in attention control.

4. A _____________ is a mistaken belief that is held with strong conviction even when presented with superior evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or some other misleading effects of perception.

5. _______________ is the milder form of mania, defined as at least four days of the same criteria as mania, but does not cause a significant decrease in the individual's ability to socialize or work, lacks psychotic features such as delusions or hallucinations, and does not require psychiatric hospitalization.

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Remember, this isn't how actual ASWB exam questions look. The real questions tend to be in vignette form, leaning not just on your content knowledge, but your ability to synthesize content knowledge with social work best practices. For practice like that, try SWTP.

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Now, the answers...

1. Schizophrenia
2. Positive Symptoms
3. Negative Symptoms
4. Delusions
5. Hypomania