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1.

Free Association is dealt with

A. behaviorism
B. mesmerism
C. psychoanalysis
D. functionalism
Answer» D. functionalism
2.

Who is the author of the book A Mind that is found in itself ?

A. rush
B. dorothe dix
C. clifford beers
D. pinel
Answer» D. pinel
3.

Who is the person behind the rise of mental hygiene movement?

A. dorothea dix
B. pinel
C. hippocrates
D. plato
Answer» B. pinel
4.

Founder of American psychiatry

A. pinel
B. rush
C. burtonn
D. freud
Answer» C. burtonn
5.

A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves

A. lycanthropy
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» B. somatoform disorders
6.

Dancing mania is a part of ------

A. dissociation
B. mass madness
C. exorcism
D. trephination
Answer» C. exorcism
7.

Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. hippocrates
D. morgan
Answer» C. hippocrates
8.

The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was

A. exorcism
B. mass madness
C. psychotherapy
D. flooding
Answer» B. mass madness
9.

Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population

A. epedemiology
B. prevalence
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» B. prevalence
10.

Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts

A. obsessions
B. compulsions
C. suppression
D. stereotypes
Answer» C. suppression
11.

----is an example of behavior therapy

A. flooding
B. dream analysis
C. psychoanalysis
D. counselling
Answer» B. dream analysis
12.

______means flight

A. fugue
B. amnesia
C. projection
D. relapse
Answer» B. amnesia
13.

In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.

A. depersonalisation
B. derealisation
C. hypochondriasis
D. anxiety
Answer» B. derealisation
14.

Failure to recall previously stored personal information

A. dissociative amnesia
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» B. somatoform disorders
15.

Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body

A. ocd
B. gad
C. bdd
D. ptsd
Answer» D. ptsd
16.

Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder

A. somatisation disorder
B. pain disorder
C. hypochondriasis
D. mania
Answer» B. pain disorder
17.

Mood disorders are formerly known as ---

A. depression
B. anxiety disorders
C. affective disorders
D. somatoform disorders
Answer» D. somatoform disorders
18.

Persistent and disproportionate fear of some specific object or situationthat presents little or no actual danger to the person.

A. depression
B. phobia
C. mania
D. stress
Answer» C. mania
19.

Clinical term for causal factor

A. epidemiology
B. etiology
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» C. prognosis
20.

Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger

A. fear
B. anxiety
C. depression
D. stress
Answer» C. depression
21.

Shock therapy is otherwise known as---

A. eeg
B. ect
C. cat
D. mri
Answer» C. cat
22.

Fear of animals

A. hydrophobia
B. zoophobia
C. claustrophobia
D. monophobia
Answer» C. claustrophobia
23.

Write the odd one

A. delusion
B. repression
C. denial
D. sublimation
Answer» B. repression
24.

Partial loss of sensitivity is --------

A. anesthesia
B. analgesia
C. hypersthesia
D. hypertension.
Answer» B. analgesia
25.

MZ twins are otherwise known as :

A. identical
B. quadraples
C. dz
D. non identical .
Answer» B. quadraples
26.

Preoccupations based on misinterpretations of bodily symptoms,with thefear that one has a serious disease.

A. hypochondriasis
B. obsessions
C. compulsions
D. amnesia
Answer» B. obsessions
27.

Thwarting of a need or a desire is

A. frustration
B. conflict
C. aggression
D. pressure.
Answer» B. conflict
28.

Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick rolemay provide.

A. malingering
B. factitious disorder
C. somatoform disorder
D. hypochondriasis.
Answer» C. somatoform disorder
29.

Excessive emotional attachment of a son for his mother

A. electra complex
B. oedipus complex
C. inferiority complex
D. superiority complex
Answer» C. inferiority complex
30.

Excessive emotional attachment of a daughter for her father

A. electra complex
B. oedipus complex
C. inferiority complex
D. superiority complex
Answer» B. oedipus complex
31.

Predisposition or vulnerability to develop a disorder is ----

A. stress
B. diatheses
C. diagnosis
D. displacement.
Answer» C. diagnosis
32.

Negative stress is known as –

A. eustress
B. distress
C. depression
D. anxiety
Answer» C. depression
33.

ICD is published by ------- a. WHO b. APA c .PSA d .UNO39. Perception without stimulus is known as ______

A. hallucination
B. delusion
C. illusion
D. sublimation
Answer» B. delusion
34.

Outcome of a person’s efforts to deal with stress and meet his or herneeds is ------

A. adjustment
B. resilience
C. stressor
D. etiology
Answer» B. resilience
35.

Hypnosis is dealt with

A. behaviorism
B. mesmerism
C. psychoanalysis
D. functionalism
Answer» C. psychoanalysis
36.

Unshakeable false belief keeping out of cultural norms

A. hallucination
B. delusion
C. illusion
D. sublimation
Answer» B. delusion
37.

Clinical term for fear of public places

A. algophobia
B. agoraphobia
C. claustrophobia
D. ochlophobia
Answer» C. claustrophobia
38.

Disorder by which the person feels that his certain bodyparts are with anugly appearance :

A. dysmorphic disorder
B. phobia
C. dissociation
D. schizophrenia
Answer» B. phobia
39.

Serotonin is a

A. hormone
B. disorder
C. medicine
D. neurotransmitter
Answer» E.
40.

Disorder which consists of physical complaints without any physicalpathology is termed as –

A. dissociative disorders
B. somatoform disorders
C. depression
D. stress .
Answer» C. depression
41.

Hippocrates classified all mental disorders into :

A. four
B. six
C. two
D. three
Answer» E.
42.

Any detrimental characteristics that is either innate or acquired is :

A. temperament b
B. genetic vulnerability
C. inherited
D. constitutional liability.
Answer» B. genetic vulnerability
43.

Dream analysis is practiced by -----

A. psycho analyst
B. behaviorism
C. psychiatrist
D. neurologist.
Answer» B. behaviorism
44.

Term used to describe the phenomenon the person becomes amnesic anddeparts home with a new identity

A. amnesia
B. fugue
C. ptsd
D. phobia
Answer» C. ptsd
45.

Fear of water is

A. zoophobia
B. hydrophobia
C. algophobia
D. pyrophobia
Answer» C. algophobia
46.

There is a loss of sense of self in ---------disorder

A. derealisation
B. depersonalisation
C. stress
D. depression
Answer» C. stress
47.

Partial or total inability to recall

A. amnesia
B. phobia
C. stress
D. anxiety
Answer» B. phobia
48.

Dopamine is a -----------

A. hormone
B. disorder
C. medicine
D. neurotransmitter.
Answer» E.
49.

DSM is a scientific classification manual of mental disorders published by

A. who
B. british psychiatric association
C. indian psychiatric association
D. american psychiatric association.
Answer» E.
50.

Unrealistic irrational fear of anxiety is known as ---

A. hypochondriasis
B. phobia
C. agoraphobia
D. depression
Answer» C. agoraphobia