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Abnormal Psychology | Set 1

1. The term that refers to a group of clinical observations or symptoms that tend to re-occur:

Correct : A. syndrome

2. The observed structural and functional characteristics that result from an interaction of the genotype and environment:

Correct : B. phenotype

3. Avoiding speaking in public for fear of being evaluated could be a symptom of :

Correct : C. social phobia

4. Retreating to an earlier developmental level involving less mature behavior and responsibility:

Correct : C. regression

5. Channelising frustrated sexual energy into substitutive activities

Correct : A. sublimation

6. Stress that tend to be good is referred to as

Correct : B. ustress

7. Irrational fear of pain is called

Correct : C. algophobia

8. Defence by actual flight is :

Correct : D. none of these

9. Free floating anxiety is associated with

Correct : C. gad

10. Fear of enclosed places

Correct : A. claustrophobia

11. Conditions involving the disruption in a person sense of personal identity

Correct : C. dissociative disorders

12. Avoiding speaking in public for fear of being evaluated could be a symptom of :

Correct : C. social phobia

13. Desensitisation is primarily used for :

Correct : D. alleviating phobias and mania

14. Disorders caused by known and verifiable organic pathology

Correct : B. organic mental

15. What does DSM stand for :

Correct : A. diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

16. ____ characterised by recurrent uncontrollable thought and irresistible behaviors.

Correct : A. ocd

17. Thoughts or images that intrude into consciousness against a person’s will and which cause anxiety or extreme discomfort .

Correct : B. obsession

18. Disorders that feature disruptions in memory ,consciousness or integrity of identity

Correct : A. dissociative disorders

19. A term that refers to a broad range of technique designed to improve psychological functioning and personal or social adjustment.

Correct : A. psychotherapy

20. An event that creates a sense of threat by confronting a person with a demand or opportunity for change.

Correct : A. stressor

21. A mental disorder is conceptualized as a --------- significant behavioral or psychological syndrome.

Correct : C. clinically

22. Unrealistic irrational fear of anxiety is known as ---

Correct : B. phobia

23. DSM is a scientific classification manual of mental disorders published by

Correct : D. american psychiatric association.

24. Dopamine is a -----------

Correct : D. neurotransmitter.

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

Correct : B. depersonalisation

26. Partial or total inability to recall

Correct : A. amnesia

27. Fear of water is

Correct : B. hydrophobia

28. Term used to describe the phenomenon the person becomes amnesic and departs home with a new identity

Correct : B. fugue

29. Dream analysis is practiced by -----

Correct : A. psycho analyst

30. Any detrimental characteristics that is either innate or acquired is :

Correct : A. temperament b

31. Serotonin is a

Correct : D. neurotransmitter

32. Hippocrates classified all mental disorders into :

Correct : D. three

33. Disorder which consists of physical complaints without any physical pathology is termed as –

Correct : B. somatoform disorders

34. Disorder by which the person feels that his certain bodyparts are with an ugly appearance :

Correct : A. dysmorphic disorder

35. Clinical term for fear of public places

Correct : B. agoraphobia

36. Outcome of a person’s efforts to deal with stress and meet his or her needs is ------

Correct : A. adjustment

37. ICD is published by ------- a. WHO b. APA c .PSA d .UNO 39. Perception without stimulus is known as ______

Correct : A. hallucination

38. Unshakeable false belief keeping out of cultural norms

Correct : B. delusion

39. Hypnosis is dealt with

Correct : B. mesmerism

40. Negative stress is known as –

Correct : B. distress

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

Correct : B. diatheses

42. Excessive emotional attachment of a daughter for her father

Correct : A. electra complex

43. Excessive emotional attachment of a son for his mother

Correct : B. oedipus complex

44. Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick role may provide.

Correct : B. factitious disorder

45. Thwarting of a need or a desire is

Correct : A. frustration

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

Correct : A. hypochondriasis

47. Partial loss of sensitivity is --------

Correct : A. anesthesia

48. MZ twins are otherwise known as :

Correct : A. identical

49. Write the odd one

Correct : A. delusion

50. Fear of animals

Correct : B. zoophobia

51. Shock therapy is otherwise known as---

Correct : B. ect

52. Clinical term for causal factor

Correct : B. etiology

53. Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger

Correct : B. anxiety

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

Correct : B. phobia

55. Mood disorders are formerly known as ---

Correct : C. affective disorders

56. Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder

Correct : A. somatisation disorder

57. Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body

Correct : C. bdd

58. In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.

Correct : A. depersonalisation

59. Failure to recall previously stored personal information

Correct : A. dissociative amnesia

60. ______means flight

Correct : A. fugue

61. ----is an example of behavior therapy

Correct : A. flooding

62. Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts

Correct : B. compulsions

63. Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population

Correct : A. epedemiology

64. The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was

Correct : A. exorcism

65. Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?

Correct : B. plato

66. A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves

Correct : A. lycanthropy

67. Dancing mania is a part of ------

Correct : B. mass madness

68. Founder of American psychiatry

Correct : B. rush

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

Correct : A. dorothea dix

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

Correct : C. clifford beers

71. Free Association is dealt with

Correct : C. psychoanalysis

72. Classical conditioning is put forward by

Correct : B. pavlov

73. Who is the father of Behaviorism?

Correct : A. john b watson

74. Who put forward operant conditioning?

Correct : C. skinner

75. Process by which stimulus increases the probability of desirable behavior

Correct : B. reinforcement

76. Who deve3loped the first diagnostic system?

Correct : C. emil kraeplin

77. An Austrian physician who conducted early investigations into hypnosis as a medical treatment

Correct : D. anton mesmer

78. who propounded psychoanalysis?

Correct : B. freud

79. Condition in which person is intentionally producing or grossly exaggerating physical symptoms and is motivated by external incentives

Correct : B. factitious disorder

80. Partial or total inability to recall or identify previously acquired information or experience

Correct : A. retrograde amnesia

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

Correct : B. anterograde amnesia

82. Legal term for mental disorder

Correct : A. insanity

83. Emotion or feeling is otherwise known as ---

Correct : A. affect

84. Institutions meant solely for the care of the mentally ill during ancient times

Correct : A. asylums

85. Discharge of emotions associated with something

Correct : A. catharsis

86. Negative stress is

Correct : B. distress

87. Positive stress is

Correct : A. eustress

88. Religiously inspired treatment procedure to drive out evil spirits.

Correct : A. exorcism

89. Characteristic of a person that can be observed or measured

Correct : B. trait

90. Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physical pathology

Correct : B. somatoform disorder

91. Effects created within an organism by the application of stressor

Correct : A. stress

92. Write the odd one

Correct : D. flooding

93. Write the odd one

Correct : C. hallucination

94. Conscience,ethical or moral dimensions of personality

Correct : C. super ego

95. Abnormal physical or mental condition

Correct : B. pathology

96. __________ is the historical name for schizophrenia.

Correct : C. Dementia praecox

97. The term schizophrenia is coined by ____________

Correct : A. Engen Blunter

98. The meaning of the word ‘schizophrenia’ is ________

Correct : C. Split mind

99. Touch related hallucination is known as__________

Correct : D. Tactile

100. A feeling of having noise by schizophrenic person is known as_________

Correct : B. Auditory hallucination