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1.

Which of the following is not included in the symptoms of major depressive disorder?

A. Mania
B. Thought of death
C. Inability to concentrate
D. Insomnia
Answer» B. Thought of death
2.

A person experience both maniac and depressive episodes in ___________ disorder.

A. Dysthymia
B. Cyclothymia
C. Unipolar
D. Bipolar
Answer» E.
3.

The disorder in which person experience only depressive episodes is__________

A. Unipolar
B. Bipolar
C. Schizophrenia
D. Paranoia
Answer» B. Bipolar
4.

Which of the following is not a symptom of dysthymia?

A. Low energy level
B. Low self esteem
C. Flight of ideas
D. Feeling of hopelessness
Answer» D. Feeling of hopelessness
5.

Which of the following is not a symptom of mood disorder?

A. Flight of ideas
B. Distractibility
C. Inflated self
D. Derailment of asocial
Answer» E.
6.

____________ is characterized by the feeling of extra ordinary sadness anddejections.

A. Mood
B. Mania
C. Depression
D. Flight of ideas
Answer» D. Flight of ideas
7.

________ is a temporary but relatively sustained and pervasive, affective state with amore specific and short term emotion.

A. Mood
B. Mania
C. Depression
D. Self esteem
Answer» C. Depression
8.

The type of delusional disorder in which the predominant delusional them is thatone’s sexual partner is unfaithful, is_________

A. Mixed
B. Erotomanic
C. Jealous
D. Persecutory
Answer» D. Persecutory
9.

The type of delusional disorder in which the affected person is having an unshakablebelief about having some physical illness is known as ___________

A. Erotomanic
B. Persecutory
C. Somatic
D. Jealous
Answer» D. Jealous
10.

The moment when everything “false in to place” the individual finally understands thestrange feelings and even being experienced is referred to as _________

A. Projective illumination
B. Projective thinking
C. Delusion
D. Hallucination
Answer» B. Projective thinking
11.

___________ is a symptom in which individual selectively project the action of othersto conform suspiciousness and blames others for their failures.

A. Hostility
B. Projective thinking
C. Hallucination
D. Delusion
Answer» C. Hallucination
12.

The type of delusional disorder in which the affected person is having a belief that heis a person of extraordinary status, power, ability etc. is__________

A. Grandiose
B. Mixed
C. Jealous
D. Somatic
Answer» B. Mixed
13.

Delusional disorder was formerly called as ___________

A. Schizophrenia
B. Mania
C. Paranoia
D. Depression
Answer» D. Depression
14.

__________ has identified the conflicting and confusing communication of familymembers as a causal factor of schizophrenia.

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Hidze
C. Koliant
D. Gregory Bateson
Answer» E.
15.

_____________ is a commonly accepted drugs for schizophrenia.

A. Antideppresents
B. Valium
C. Tranquilizers
D. Antianxiety
Answer» D. Antianxiety
16.

Inappropriate autonomous nerve system is a neuro- physiological causal factor for …

A. Schizoid
B. Schizophrenia
C. Schizotypal
D. OCPD
Answer» C. Schizotypal
17.

Schizophrenia is the product of an excess__________ activity at certain synaptic rites.

A. Dopamiac
B. Nor epinephrine
C. Serotonin
D. Nor adrenergic
Answer» B. Nor epinephrine
18.

A sub type of schizophrenia which is also known as Hebephrenia is__________

A. Simple
B. Paranoid
C. Undifferentiated
D. Disorganized
Answer» E.
19.

The term used for intimating the actions of others is ___________

A. Echolalia
B. Echopraxia
C. Delusion
D. Hallucination
Answer» C. Delusion
20.

Waxi-flexibility is an important feature of ___________

A. Paranoid
B. Catatonic
C. Residual
D. Schizophrenic form
Answer» C. Residual
21.

Persecutory delusions are common in ____________ affected person.

A. Catatonic
B. Undifferentiated
C. Disorganized
D. Paranoid
Answer» E.
22.

____________ is something of a waste basket category.

A. Hebephrenia
B. Undifferentiated
C. Paranoid
D. Disorganized
Answer» C. Paranoid
23.

____________is the inability to experience joy or pleasure.

A. Apathy
B. Empathy
C. Anhedonia
D. Dysthymia
Answer» D. Dysthymia
24.

Touch related hallucination is known as__________

A. Visual
B. Auditory
C. Somato sensory
D. Tactile
Answer» E.
25.

A feeling of having noise by schizophrenic person is known as_________

A. Visual hallucination
B. Auditory hallucination
C. Olfactory hallucination
D. False perception
Answer» C. Olfactory hallucination
26.

The meaning of the word ‘schizophrenia’ is ________

A. Violent behavior
B. Mental disorder
C. Split mind
D. Aggressive behavior
Answer» D. Aggressive behavior
27.

The term schizophrenia is coined by ____________

A. Engen Blunter
B. Emile Kreaplin
C. Setin
D. Seligman
Answer» B. Emile Kreaplin
28.

__________ is the historical name for schizophrenia.

A. Delusion
B. Paranoia
C. Dementia praecox
D. Split mind
Answer» D. Split mind
29.

Abnormal physical or mental condition

A. psychology
B. pathology
C. madness
D. stress
Answer» C. madness
30.

Conscience,ethical or moral dimensions of personality

A. id
B. ego
C. super ego
D. libido
Answer» D. libido
31.

Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physicalpathology

A. dissociation
B. somatoform disorder
C. mpd
D. gad
Answer» C. mpd
32.

Effects created within an organism by the application of stressor

A. stress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» B. distress
33.

Characteristic of a person that can be observed or measured

A. character
B. trait
C. type
D. trance
Answer» C. type
34.

Religiously inspired treatment procedure to drive out evil spirits.

A. exorcism
B. shrining
C. therapy
D. hypnosis
Answer» B. shrining
35.

Positive stress is

A. eustress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» B. distress
36.

Negative stress is

A. eustress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» C. frustration
37.

Institutions meant solely for the care of the mentally ill during ancienttimes

A. asylums
B. mental hospitals
C. shrines
D. church
Answer» B. mental hospitals
38.

Discharge of emotions associated with something

A. catharsis
B. cathexis
C. reinforcer
D. shaping
Answer» B. cathexis
39.

Emotion or feeling is otherwise known as ---

A. affect
B. mania
C. dythymia
D. amnesia
Answer» B. mania
40.

Legal term for mental disorder

A. insanity
B. abnormality
C. introjection
D. intromission
Answer» B. abnormality
41.

Partial or total inability to recall or identify new information or experience

A. retrograde amnesia
B. anterograde amnesia
C. somatoform disorder
D. dissociative disorder
Answer» C. somatoform disorder
42.

Condition in which person is intentionally producing or grosslyexaggerating physical symptoms and is motivated by external incentives

A. malingering
B. factitious disorder
C. somatoform disorder
D. dissociative disorder
Answer» C. somatoform disorder
43.

Partial or total inability to recall or identify previously acquiredinformation or experience

A. retrograde amnesia
B. anterograde amnesia
C. somatoform disorder
D. dissociative disorder
Answer» B. anterograde amnesia
44.

who propounded psychoanalysis?

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. skinner
Answer» C. emil kraeplin
45.

An Austrian physician who conducted early investigations into hypnosisas a medical treatment

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. anton mesmer
Answer» E.
46.

Who deve3loped the first diagnostic system?

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. skinner
Answer» D. skinner
47.

Process by which stimulus increases the probability of desirable behavior

A. punishment
B. reinforcement
C. shaping
D. chaining
Answer» C. shaping
48.

Who put forward operant conditioning?

A. wolpe
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» D. bandura
49.

Who is the father of Behaviorism?

A. john b watson
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» B. pavlov
50.

Classical conditioning is put forward by

A. wolpe
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» C. skinner