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This section includes 71 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology (BSc Counselling Psychology) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The observed structural and functional characteristics that result from an interaction of the genotype and environment: |
| A. | genotype |
| B. | phenotype |
| C. | heredity |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» C. heredity | |
| 2. |
The term that refers to a group of clinical observations or symptoms that tend to re-occur: |
| A. | syndrome |
| B. | diseases |
| C. | resilience |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. diseases | |
| 3. |
Retreating to an earlier developmental level involving less mature behavior and responsibility: |
| A. | sublimation |
| B. | projection |
| C. | regression |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 4. |
_________ is disorder in which the person shows seasonal pattern at least two episodes of depression in the past two years. |
| A. | Seasonal affective |
| B. | Schizo affective |
| C. | Bipolar |
| D. | Unipolar |
| Answer» B. Schizo affective | |
| 5. |
Avoiding speaking in public for fear of being evaluated could be a symptom of : |
| A. | agoraphobia |
| B. | simple phobia |
| C. | social phobia |
| D. | panic disorder. |
| Answer» D. panic disorder. | |
| 6. |
Which of the following bio-chemical factors are not considered as the causal factor for mood disorder? |
| A. | Endorphins |
| B. | Serotonin |
| C. | Dopamine |
| D. | Horepinephrine |
| Answer» B. Serotonin | |
| 7. |
Prevalence of mood disorder is ________ among blood relatives of parsons with clinically diagnosed mood disorder. |
| A. | Lower |
| B. | Moderate |
| C. | Higher |
| D. | Crucial |
| Answer» D. Crucial | |
| 8. |
___________ model explain how stress interact with various types of vulnerability factor to reduce depression. |
| A. | Frustration |
| B. | Social |
| C. | Diathesis-stress |
| D. | Cognitive |
| Answer» D. Cognitive | |
| 9. |
_____________ is best known of depression specific psychotherapy for unipolar depression. |
| A. | Cognitive behavioral therapy |
| B. | Lithium therapy |
| C. | Interpersonal therapy |
| D. | Family therapy |
| Answer» B. Lithium therapy | |
| 10. |
__________ is used with seriously depressed patients who may present immediate and serious suicidal risk. |
| A. | CBT |
| B. | IPT |
| C. | Lithium therapy |
| D. | ECT |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
The hormone secreted by adrenal glands found to be a causal factor of mood disorder is |
| A. | Serotonin |
| B. | Cortisol |
| C. | Epinephrine |
| D. | Thyroxine |
| Answer» C. Epinephrine | |
| 12. |
_________ refers to physical symptoms such as sweating, tremors and tension t that accompany disturbance from the drug. |
| A. | Addiction |
| B. | Tolerance |
| C. | Abuse |
| D. | Withdrawal symptoms |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
________ usually happens following a prolonged drinking spree when the person is in a state of withdrawal. |
| A. | Alcohol withdrawal delirium |
| B. | Alcohol dependence |
| C. | Personality disorganization |
| D. | Psychotic reaction |
| Answer» B. Alcohol dependence | |
| 14. |
An Austrian physician who conducted early investigations into hypnosis as a medical treatment |
| A. | clifford beers |
| B. | freud |
| C. | emil kraeplin |
| D. | anton mesmer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Condition in which person is intentionally producing or grossly exaggerating physical symptoms and is motivated by external incentives |
| A. | malingering |
| B. | factitious disorder |
| C. | somatoform disorder |
| D. | dissociative disorder |
| Answer» C. somatoform disorder | |
| 16. |
Partial or total inability to recall or identify previously acquired information or experience |
| A. | retrograde amnesia |
| B. | anterograde amnesia |
| C. | somatoform disorder |
| D. | dissociative disorder |
| Answer» B. anterograde amnesia | |
| 17. |
Institutions meant solely for the care of the mentally ill during ancient times |
| A. | asylums |
| B. | mental hospitals |
| C. | shrines |
| D. | church |
| Answer» B. mental hospitals | |
| 18. |
Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physical pathology |
| A. | dissociation |
| B. | somatoform disorder |
| C. | mpd |
| D. | gad |
| Answer» C. mpd | |
| 19. |
A researcher seeking an organic basis for schizophrenia would be well-advised to investigate the role of |
| A. | amphetamines and amphetamine receptors. |
| B. | adrenaline and noradrenaline. |
| C. | histamine and antihistamine. |
| D. | dopamine and dopamine receptors. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
________ Tests are unstructured in that they rely on various ambiguous stimuli, such as inkblots or picture. |
| A. | Intelligence |
| B. | Personality |
| C. | Performance |
| D. | Projective |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
_________ is a drug that causes violent vomiting when followed by ingestion of alcohol. |
| A. | Naltroxene |
| B. | Disulfiram |
| C. | Valium |
| D. | Biofungine |
| Answer» C. Valium | |
| 22. |
________ refers to the presentation of a wide range of noxious stimuli with alcohol consumption in order to suppress drinking behavior. |
| A. | Intramuscular injection |
| B. | Relapse |
| C. | Nausea |
| D. | Aversive conditioning |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Wonder pills that help people stay alert or awake and function temporarily at a level beyond normal is ___________ |
| A. | Cocaine |
| B. | Marijuana |
| C. | Heroine |
| D. | Amphetamine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
An in voluntary recurrence of perceptual distortions or hallucinations happens for weeks or even months after taking the drug |
| A. | Flashback |
| B. | Black hole |
| C. | Delirium |
| D. | Hallucination |
| Answer» B. Black hole | |
| 25. |
The kind of procedures most of is have experienced in getting a medical check up is________ |
| A. | Neurological examination |
| B. | General physical examination |
| C. | Scanning |
| D. | X-rays |
| Answer» C. Scanning | |
| 26. |
The procedures to asses the brain wave patterns in awake and sleeping stages is________ |
| A. | EEG |
| B. | ECG |
| C. | ECT |
| D. | EMG |
| Answer» B. ECG | |
| 27. |
___________ attempts to provide a realistic picture of an individual in interaction with his / her social environment. |
| A. | Psychological assessment |
| B. | Neurological assessment |
| C. | Neuro-psychological exam |
| D. | General exam |
| Answer» B. Neurological assessment | |
| 28. |
_________ is the technique of choices in detecting structured anatomical anomalies in the brain. |
| A. | CAT |
| B. | MRI |
| C. | PET |
| D. | X-rays |
| Answer» C. PET | |
| 29. |
The procedure that provides metabolic portrait by tracking natural component like glucose is |
| A. | CAT |
| B. | MRI |
| C. | PET |
| D. | X-rays |
| Answer» D. X-rays | |
| 30. |
The most widely used rating scale for recording observations in clinical practice and in psychiatric research is |
| A. | WAIS |
| B. | WISC |
| C. | BPRS |
| D. | HRSD |
| Answer» D. HRSD | |
| 31. |
Which of the following is related to recent attempts to find biochemical explanations for schizophrenia? |
| A. | schizotaxin |
| B. | psychotropin |
| C. | dopamine |
| D. | diazepam |
| Answer» D. diazepam | |
| 32. |
The sub-test that consist of a list of words to define that are presented orally to the individual is |
| A. | Nonverbal |
| B. | Numerical |
| C. | Verbal |
| D. | Performance |
| Answer» D. Performance | |
| 33. |
Bob has never met Madonna but he is convinced that she is deeply in love with him. Bob is suffering from |
| A. | grandiose delusions. |
| B. | jealous delusions. |
| C. | obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
| D. | erotomanic delusions. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
The type of delusional disorder in which the affected person is having a belief that he is a person of extraordinary status, power, ability etc. is__________ |
| A. | Grandiose |
| B. | Mixed |
| C. | Jealous |
| D. | Somatic |
| Answer» B. Mixed | |
| 35. |
The type of delusional disorder in which the predominant delusional them is that one s sexual partner is unfaithful, is_________ |
| A. | Mixed |
| B. | Erotomanic |
| C. | Jealous |
| D. | Persecutory |
| Answer» D. Persecutory | |
| 36. |
The type of delusional disorder in which the affected person is having an unshakable belief about having some physical illness is known as ___________ |
| A. | Erotomanic |
| B. | Persecutory |
| C. | Somatic |
| D. | Jealous |
| Answer» D. Jealous | |
| 37. |
___________ is a symptom in which individual selectively project the action of others to conform suspiciousness and blames others for their failures. |
| A. | Hostility |
| B. | Projective thinking |
| C. | Hallucination |
| D. | Delusion |
| Answer» C. Hallucination | |
| 38. |
The moment when everything false in to place the individual finally understands the strange feelings and even being experienced is referred to as _________ |
| A. | Projective illumination |
| B. | Projective thinking |
| C. | Delusion |
| D. | Hallucination |
| Answer» B. Projective thinking | |
| 39. |
__________ has identified the conflicting and confusing communication of family members as a causal factor of schizophrenia. |
| A. | Sigmund Freud |
| B. | Hidze |
| C. | Koliant |
| D. | Gregory Bateson |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
____________ is characterized by the feeling of extra ordinary sadness and dejections. |
| A. | Mood |
| B. | Mania |
| C. | Depression |
| D. | Flight of ideas |
| Answer» D. Flight of ideas | |
| 41. |
________ is a temporary but relatively sustained and pervasive, affective state with a more specific and short term emotion. |
| A. | Mood |
| B. | Mania |
| C. | Depression |
| D. | Self esteem |
| Answer» C. Depression | |
| 42. |
Persistent and disproportionate fear of some specific object or situation that presents little or no actual danger to the person. |
| A. | depression |
| B. | phobia |
| C. | mania |
| D. | stress |
| Answer» C. mania | |
| 43. |
Parents were routinely assumed to have caused their children s disorder through hostility, deliberate rejection etc. are known as |
| A. | Destructive parental interaction |
| B. | Schezophrenogenic parents |
| C. | Faulty communication |
| D. | Schizophrenic offspring |
| Answer» C. Faulty communication | |
| 44. |
The most effective method of predicting that a mental patient will commit an act of violence is by |
| A. | psychological tests. |
| B. | psychiatric interviews. |
| C. | psychological interviews. |
| D. | There is no effective method. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
The tendency to remain motionless for hours or even days in a single position is known as_________ |
| A. | Waxi-flexibility |
| B. | Catatonic stupor |
| C. | Echopraxia |
| D. | Echolatia |
| Answer» C. Echopraxia | |
| 46. |
In some countries, it is normal to defecate or urinate in public. This makes it clear that judgments of the normality of behavior are |
| A. | culturally relative. |
| B. | statistical. |
| C. | a matter of subjective discomfort. |
| D. | related to conformity. |
| Answer» B. statistical. | |
| 47. |
ICD is published by ------- a. WHO b. APA c .PSA d .UNO 39. Perception without stimulus is known as ______ |
| A. | hallucination |
| B. | delusion |
| C. | illusion |
| D. | sublimation |
| Answer» B. delusion | |
| 48. |
Disorder which consists of physical complaints without any physical pathology is termed as |
| A. | dissociative disorders |
| B. | somatoform disorders |
| C. | depression |
| D. | stress . |
| Answer» C. depression | |
| 49. |
Disorder by which the person feels that his certain bodyparts are with an ugly appearance : |
| A. | dysmorphic disorder |
| B. | phobia |
| C. | dissociation |
| D. | schizophrenia |
| Answer» B. phobia | |
| 50. |
An unusual state called "waxy flexibility" is sometimes observed in __________ schizophrenia. |
| A. | borderline |
| B. | disorganized |
| C. | catatonic |
| D. | paranoid |
| Answer» D. paranoid | |