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1201.

Free Association is dealt with

A. behaviorism
B. mesmerism
C. psychoanalysis
D. functionalism
Answer» D. functionalism
1202.

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
1203.

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

A. dorothea dix
B. pinel
C. hippocrates
D. plato
Answer» B. pinel
1204.

Founder of American psychiatry

A. pinel
B. rush
C. burtonn
D. freud
Answer» C. burtonn
1205.

A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves

A. lycanthropy
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» B. somatoform disorders
1206.

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

A. dissociation
B. mass madness
C. exorcism
D. trephination
Answer» C. exorcism
1207.

Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. hippocrates
D. morgan
Answer» C. hippocrates
1208.

The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was

A. exorcism
B. mass madness
C. psychotherapy
D. flooding
Answer» B. mass madness
1209.

Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population

A. epedemiology
B. prevalence
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» B. prevalence
1210.

Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts

A. obsessions
B. compulsions
C. suppression
D. stereotypes
Answer» C. suppression
1211.

----is an example of behavior therapy

A. flooding
B. dream analysis
C. psychoanalysis
D. counselling
Answer» B. dream analysis
1212.

______means flight

A. fugue
B. amnesia
C. projection
D. relapse
Answer» B. amnesia
1213.

In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.

A. depersonalisation
B. derealisation
C. hypochondriasis
D. anxiety
Answer» B. derealisation
1214.

Failure to recall previously stored personal information

A. dissociative amnesia
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» B. somatoform disorders
1215.

Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body

A. ocd
B. gad
C. bdd
D. ptsd
Answer» D. ptsd
1216.

Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder

A. somatisation disorder
B. pain disorder
C. hypochondriasis
D. mania
Answer» B. pain disorder
1217.

Mood disorders are formerly known as ---

A. depression
B. anxiety disorders
C. affective disorders
D. somatoform disorders
Answer» D. somatoform disorders
1218.

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
1219.

Clinical term for causal factor

A. epidemiology
B. etiology
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» C. prognosis
1220.

Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger

A. fear
B. anxiety
C. depression
D. stress
Answer» C. depression
1221.

Shock therapy is otherwise known as---

A. eeg
B. ect
C. cat
D. mri
Answer» C. cat
1222.

Fear of animals

A. hydrophobia
B. zoophobia
C. claustrophobia
D. monophobia
Answer» C. claustrophobia
1223.

Write the odd one

A. delusion
B. repression
C. denial
D. sublimation
Answer» B. repression
1224.

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

A. anesthesia
B. analgesia
C. hypersthesia
D. hypertension.
Answer» B. analgesia
1225.

MZ twins are otherwise known as :

A. identical
B. quadraples
C. dz
D. non identical .
Answer» B. quadraples
1226.

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
1227.

Thwarting of a need or a desire is

A. frustration
B. conflict
C. aggression
D. pressure.
Answer» B. conflict
1228.

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
1229.

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
1230.

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
1231.

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

A. stress
B. diatheses
C. diagnosis
D. displacement.
Answer» C. diagnosis
1232.

Negative stress is known as –

A. eustress
B. distress
C. depression
D. anxiety
Answer» C. depression
1233.

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
1234.

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
1235.

Hypnosis is dealt with

A. behaviorism
B. mesmerism
C. psychoanalysis
D. functionalism
Answer» C. psychoanalysis
1236.

Unshakeable false belief keeping out of cultural norms

A. hallucination
B. delusion
C. illusion
D. sublimation
Answer» B. delusion
1237.

Clinical term for fear of public places

A. algophobia
B. agoraphobia
C. claustrophobia
D. ochlophobia
Answer» C. claustrophobia
1238.

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
1239.

Serotonin is a

A. hormone
B. disorder
C. medicine
D. neurotransmitter
Answer» E.
1240.

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
1241.

Hippocrates classified all mental disorders into :

A. four
B. six
C. two
D. three
Answer» E.
1242.

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
1243.

Dream analysis is practiced by -----

A. psycho analyst
B. behaviorism
C. psychiatrist
D. neurologist.
Answer» B. behaviorism
1244.

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
1245.

Fear of water is

A. zoophobia
B. hydrophobia
C. algophobia
D. pyrophobia
Answer» C. algophobia
1246.

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

A. derealisation
B. depersonalisation
C. stress
D. depression
Answer» C. stress
1247.

Partial or total inability to recall

A. amnesia
B. phobia
C. stress
D. anxiety
Answer» B. phobia
1248.

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

A. hormone
B. disorder
C. medicine
D. neurotransmitter.
Answer» E.
1249.

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.
1250.

Unrealistic irrational fear of anxiety is known as ---

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