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B Sc COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
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V Semester
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ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY (Paper I)
QUESTION BANK
1.
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
2.
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.
3.
Avoiding speaking in public for fear of being evaluated could be a
symptom of :
a. Panic disorder
b. Simple Phobia
c. Social phobia
d. Agoraphobia
4.
Retreating to an earlier developmental level involving less mature behavior
and responsibility:
a. Sublimation
b. Projection
c. Regression
d. None of these
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5.
Channelising frustrated sexual energy into substitutive activities
a. Sublimation b. Projection
c. Regression
d. None of these
6.
Stress that tend to be good is referred to as
a. Distress
b. Ustress
c. Stress tolerance
d. None of these.
7.
Irrational fear of pain is called
a. Agnosia
b. Apraxia
c. Algophobia
d. Pyrophobia.
8.
Defence by actual flight is :
a. Amnesia
b. Fugue
c. Hysteria
d. None of these
9.
Free floating anxiety is associated with
a. PTSD
b.OCD
c.GAD
10. Fear of enclosed places
a. Claustrophobia
c. Algophobia
d. Stress
b .Zoophobia
d. Pyrophobia
11. Conditions involving the disruption in a person sense of personal identity
a. Somatoform disorder
b. PTSD
c. Dissociative disorders
d. Hypochondriasis
12. 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.
13.Desensitisation is primarily used for :
a. Diminishing hallucinations and delusions
b. Hysteria
c. Treating depression
d. Alleviating phobias and mania
14. Disorders caused by known and verifiable organic pathology
a. substance abuse
b. organic mental
c. substance abuse
d. PTSD
15. What does DSM stand for :
a. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
b. Diagnosis services for mental health
c. Diagnostic and service manual for mental disorders
d. None of the above.
16. ____ characterised by recurrent uncontrollable thought and irresistible
behaviors.
a. OCD
b. Stress disorders
c. somatoform disorders
d. PTSD.
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17. Thoughts or images that intrude into consciousness against a person’s
will and which cause anxiety or extreme discomfort .
a. Compulsion b. obsession
c. stress
d. anxiety
18. Disorders that feature disruptions in memory ,consciousness or integrity
of identity
a. Dissociative disorders
b. somatoform disorders
c. substance abuse
d. depressiom
19. A term that refers to a broad range of technique designed to improve
psychological functioning and personal or social adjustment.
a. Psychotherapy
b. Desensitisation
c. Behaviorism
d. pharmacotherapy.
20. An event that creates a sense of threat by confronting a person with a
demand or opportunity for change.
a. Stressor
b. coping
c. resilience
d. prevalence.
21. A mental disorder is conceptualized as a --------- significant behavioral or
psychological syndrome.
a. physically
b. psychologically c. Clinically
d. systematically
22. Unrealistic irrational fear of anxiety is known as --a. Hypochondriasis
b. Phobia
c. Agoraphobia
d. Depression
23. 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.
24. Dopamine is a ----------a. Hormone
c. Medicine
b. Disorder
d. Neurotransmitter.
25. There is a loss of sense of self in ---------disorder
a. Derealisation
b. Depersonalisation
c. stress
d. depression
26. Partial or total inability to recall
a. Amnesia
b. phobia
c. stress
d. anxiety
27. Early name of conversion disorder
a. Dissociation b. Hysteria
c. Phobia
d psychoses
28. Fear of water is
a. Zoophobia
c. algophobia
d. pyrophobia
b. hydrophobia
29. Term used to describe the phenomenon the person becomes amnesic and
departs home with a new identity
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a. amnesia
b. fugue
30. Dream analysis is practiced by ----a. Psycho analyst
c. Psychiatrist
c. PTSD
d. Phobia
b. Behaviorism
d. Neurologist.
31. Any detrimental characteristics that is either innate or acquired is :
a. Temperament b
b. Genetic vulnerability
c. Inherited
d. Constitutional liability.
32. Serotonin is a
a. Hormone
c. Medicine
b. Disorder
d. Neurotransmitter
33. Hippocrates classified all mental disorders into :
a. four
b. six
c. two
d. three
34. Disorder which consists of physical complaints without any physical
pathology is termed as –
a. Dissociative disorders
b. somatoform disorders
c. depression
d. stress .
35. Disorder by which the person feels that his certain bodyparts are with an
ugly appearance :
a. Dysmorphic disorder
b. phobia
c. Dissociation
d. Schizophrenia
36. Clinical term for fear of public places
a. algophobia
b. Agoraphobia
c. claustrophobia
d. ochlophobia
37. Outcome of a person’s efforts to deal with stress and meet his or her
needs is -----a. adjustment b. resilience
c. stressor
d. etiology
38. 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
40. Unshakeable false belief keeping out of cultural norms
a. Hallucination b. Delusion
c. Illusion
d. Sublimation
41. Hypnosis is dealt with
a.Behaviorism
c. Psychoanalysis
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d. Functionalism
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42. Negative stress is known as –
a. eustress
b. distress
c. depression
d. anxiety
43. Predisposition or vulnerability to develop a disorder is ---a. stress
b. diatheses
c. diagnosis
d. displacement.
44. Excessive emotional attachment of a daughter for her father
a. electra complex
b. Oedipus complex
c. Inferiority complex
d. superiority complex
45. Excessive emotional attachment of a son for his mother
a. electra complex
b. Oedipus complex
c. Inferiority complex
d. superiority complex
46. Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick role
may provide.
a. malingering
b. factitious disorder
c. somatoform disorder
d. hypochondriasis.
47. Thwarting of a need or a desire is
a. Frustration b. conflict
c. aggression
d. pressure.
48. Preoccupations based on misinterpretations of bodily symptoms,with the
fear that one has a serious disease.
a. Hypochondriasis
b. obsessions
c. compulsions
d. amnesia
49. Partial loss of sensitivity is -------a. anesthesia
b. analgesia
c. hypersthesia
d. hypertension.
50. MZ twins are otherwise known as :
a. identical
b. quadraples
c. DZ
d. Non identical .
51. Write the odd one
a. delusion
c. denial
d. sublimation
b. repression
52. Fear of animals
a. hydrophobia
c. claustrophobia
b. zoophobia
d. monophobia
53. Shock therapy is otherwise known as--a.EEG
b.ECT
c.CAT
d.MRI
54. Clinical term for causal factor
a. epidemiology b. etiology
d. relapse
c. prognosis
55. Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger
a. fear
b .anxiety
c. depression
d. stress
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56. 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
57. Mood disorders are formerly known as --a. depression
b. anxiety disorders
c. affective disorders
d. somatoform disorders
58. Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder
a. somatisation disorder
b. pain disorder
c. hypochondriasis
d. mania
59. Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body
a.OCD
b.GAD
c.BDD
d. PTSD
60. In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.
a. Depersonalisation
b. Derealisation
c. Hypochondriasis
d. anxiety
61. Failure to recall previously stored personal information
a. Dissociative amnesia
b. Somatoform disorders
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Phobia
62. ______means flight
a. fugue
b. amnesia
c. projection
d. relapse
63. ----is an example of behavior therapy
a. flooding
b. dream analysis
c. psychoanalysis
d. counselling
64. Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts
a. obsessions
b. compulsions
c. suppression
d. stereotypes
65. Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population
a. epedemiology
b. prevalence
c. prognosis
d. relapse
66. The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was
a. exorcism
b. mass madness
c. psychotherapy
d. flooding
67. Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. hippocrates
d. Morgan
68. A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves
a. Lycanthropy
b. Somatoform disorders
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Phobia
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69. Dancing mania is a part of -----a. dissociation
c. exorcism
b. mass madness
d. trephination
70. Founder of American psychiatry
a. Pinel
b. Rush
c. Burtonn
d. Freud
71. Who is the person behind the rise of mental hygiene movement?
a. Dorothea Dix b. Pinel
c. Hippocrates
d. Plato
72. Who is the author of the book A Mind that is found in itself ?
a. Rush
b. Dorothe Dix
c. Clifford Beers d. Pinel
73. Free Association is dealt with
a. Behaviorism
c. Psychoanalysis
b. Mesmerism
d. Functionalism
74. Classical conditioning is put forward by
a. Wolpe
b. Pavlov
c. Skinner
75. Who is the father of Behaviorism?
a. John B Watson
c. Skinner
d. Bandura
b. Pavlov
d. Bandura
76. Who put forward operant conditioning?
a. Wolpe
b. Pavlov
c. Skinner
d. Bandura
77. Process by which stimulus increases the probability of desirable behavior
a. Punishment b. reinforcement c. Shaping
d. chaining
78. Who deve3loped the first diagnostic system?
a. Clifford Beers b. Freud
c. Emil Kraeplin
79
d. Skinner
An Austrian physician who conducted early investigations into hypnosis
as a medical treatment
a . Clifford Beers
b. Freud
c. Emil Kraeplin
d. Anton Mesmer
80. who propounded psychoanalysis?
a. Clifford Beers
c. Emil Kraeplin
b. Freud
d. Skinner
81. 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
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82. Condition in which person is intentionally producing or grossly
exaggerating physical symptoms and is not motivated by external
incentives
a. Malingering
b. Factitious disorder
c. somatoform disorder
d. Dissociative disorder
83. 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
84. Partial or total inability to recall or identify new information or experience
a. retrograde amnesia
b. Anterograde amnesia
c. somatoform disorder
d. Dissociative disorder
85. Legal term for mental disorder
a. Insanity
b. Abnormality
c. Introjection
86. Emotion or feeling is otherwise known as --a. affect
b. mania
c. dythymia
d. intromission
d. amnesia
87. Institutions meant solely for the care of the mentally ill during ancient
times
a. asylums
b. mental hospitals
c. shrines
d. church
88. Discharge of emotions associated with something
a. catharsis
b. cathexis
c. reinforcer
d. shaping
89. Predisposition or vulnerability to developing a given disorder
a. stress
b. diatheses
c. anxiety
e. mania
90. Mental confusion with repect to time,place or person
a. reality
b. psychoses
c. disorientation
c. dyslexia
91. Negative stress is
a. eustress
b. distress
c. frustration
d. pressure
92. Positive stress is
a. eustress
b. distress
c. frustration
d. pressure
93. Religiously inspired treatment procedure to drive out evil spirits.
a. exorcism
b. shrining
c. therapy
d. hypnosis
94. Characteristic of a person that can be observed or measured
a. character
b. trait
c. type
d. trance
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95. Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physical
pathology
a. dissociation
b. somatoform disorder
c. MPD
d.GAD
96. Effects created within an organism by the application of stressor
a. stress
b. distress
c. frustration
d. pressure
97. Write the odd one
a. exorcism
b. shrine
c. trephination
d. flooding
98. Write the odd one
a. sublimation
b. Displacement
c. Hallucination
d. Rationalisation
99. Conscience,ethical or moral dimensions of personality
a.ID
b. Ego
c. Super ego
100.Abnormal physical or mental condition
a. psychology
b. pathology
c. madness
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d. libido
d. stress
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ANSWER KEY
1.a
21.c
41.b
61.a
81.b
2.b
22.b
42.b
62.a
82.a
3.c
23.d
43.b
63.a
83.a
4.c
24.d
44.a
64.b
84.b
5.a
25.b
45.b
65.a
85.a
6.b
26.a
46.b
66.a
86.a
7.c
27.b
47.a
67.b
87.a
8.d
28.b
48.a
68.a
88.a
9.c
29.b
49.a
69.b
89.b
10.a
30.a
50.a
70.b
90.c
11.c
31.a
51.a
71.a
91.b
12.c
32.d
52.b
72.c
92.a
13.d
33.d
53.b
73.c
93.a
14.d
34.b
54.b
74.b
94.b
15.a
35.a
55.b
75.a
95.b
16.a
36.b
56.b
76.c
96.a
17.b
37.a
57.c
77.b
97.d
18.a
38.a
58.a
78.c
98.c
19.a
39.a
59.c
79.d
99.c
20.a
40.a
60.a
80.b
100.b
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