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240+ Abnormal Psychology Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology (BSc Counselling Psychology) .

51.

Shock therapy is otherwise known as---

A. eeg
B. ect
C. cat
D. mri
Answer» B. ect
52.

Clinical term for causal factor

A. epidemiology
B. etiology
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» B. etiology
53.

Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger

A. fear
B. anxiety
C. depression
D. stress
Answer» B. anxiety
54.

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
Answer» B. phobia
55.

Mood disorders are formerly known as ---

A. depression
B. anxiety disorders
C. affective disorders
D. somatoform disorders
Answer» C. affective disorders
56.

Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder

A. somatisation disorder
B. pain disorder
C. hypochondriasis
D. mania
Answer» A. somatisation disorder
57.

Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body

A. ocd
B. gad
C. bdd
D. ptsd
Answer» C. bdd
58.

In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.

A. depersonalisation
B. derealisation
C. hypochondriasis
D. anxiety
Answer» A. depersonalisation
59.

Failure to recall previously stored personal information

A. dissociative amnesia
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» A. dissociative amnesia
60.

______means flight

A. fugue
B. amnesia
C. projection
D. relapse
Answer» A. fugue
61.

----is an example of behavior therapy

A. flooding
B. dream analysis
C. psychoanalysis
D. counselling
Answer» A. flooding
62.

Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts

A. obsessions
B. compulsions
C. suppression
D. stereotypes
Answer» B. compulsions
63.

Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population

A. epedemiology
B. prevalence
C. prognosis
D. relapse
Answer» A. epedemiology
64.

The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was

A. exorcism
B. mass madness
C. psychotherapy
D. flooding
Answer» A. exorcism
65.

Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. hippocrates
D. morgan
Answer» B. plato
66.

A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves

A. lycanthropy
B. somatoform disorders
C. hypochondriasis
D. phobia
Answer» A. lycanthropy
67.

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

A. dissociation
B. mass madness
C. exorcism
D. trephination
Answer» B. mass madness
68.

Founder of American psychiatry

A. pinel
B. rush
C. burtonn
D. freud
Answer» B. rush
69.

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

A. dorothea dix
B. pinel
C. hippocrates
D. plato
Answer» A. dorothea dix
70.

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» C. clifford beers
71.

Free Association is dealt with

A. behaviorism
B. mesmerism
C. psychoanalysis
D. functionalism
Answer» C. psychoanalysis
72.

Classical conditioning is put forward by

A. wolpe
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» B. pavlov
73.

Who is the father of Behaviorism?

A. john b watson
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» A. john b watson
74.

Who put forward operant conditioning?

A. wolpe
B. pavlov
C. skinner
D. bandura
Answer» C. skinner
75.

Process by which stimulus increases the probability of desirable behavior

A. punishment
B. reinforcement
C. shaping
D. chaining
Answer» B. reinforcement
76.

Who deve3loped the first diagnostic system?

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. skinner
Answer» C. emil kraeplin
77.

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

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. anton mesmer
Answer» D. anton mesmer
78.

who propounded psychoanalysis?

A. clifford beers
B. freud
C. emil kraeplin
D. skinner
Answer» B. freud
79.

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
Answer» B. factitious disorder
80.

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
Answer» A. retrograde amnesia
81.

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» B. anterograde amnesia
82.

Legal term for mental disorder

A. insanity
B. abnormality
C. introjection
D. intromission
Answer» A. insanity
83.

Emotion or feeling is otherwise known as ---

A. affect
B. mania
C. dythymia
D. amnesia
Answer» A. affect
84.

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

A. asylums
B. mental hospitals
C. shrines
D. church
Answer» A. asylums
85.

Discharge of emotions associated with something

A. catharsis
B. cathexis
C. reinforcer
D. shaping
Answer» A. catharsis
86.

Negative stress is

A. eustress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» B. distress
87.

Positive stress is

A. eustress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» A. eustress
88.

Religiously inspired treatment procedure to drive out evil spirits.

A. exorcism
B. shrining
C. therapy
D. hypnosis
Answer» A. exorcism
89.

Characteristic of a person that can be observed or measured

A. character
B. trait
C. type
D. trance
Answer» B. trait
90.

Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physical pathology

A. dissociation
B. somatoform disorder
C. mpd
D. gad
Answer» B. somatoform disorder
91.

Effects created within an organism by the application of stressor

A. stress
B. distress
C. frustration
D. pressure
Answer» A. stress
92.

Write the odd one

A. exorcism
B. shrine
C. trephination
D. flooding
Answer» D. flooding
93.

Write the odd one

A. sublimation
B. displacement
C. hallucination
D. rationalisation
Answer» C. hallucination
94.

Conscience,ethical or moral dimensions of personality

A. id
B. ego
C. super ego
D. libido
Answer» C. super ego
95.

Abnormal physical or mental condition

A. psychology
B. pathology
C. madness
D. stress
Answer» B. pathology
96.

__________ is the historical name for schizophrenia.

A. Delusion
B. Paranoia
C. Dementia praecox
D. Split mind
Answer» C. Dementia praecox
97.

The term schizophrenia is coined by ____________

A. Engen Blunter
B. Emile Kreaplin
C. Setin
D. Seligman
Answer» A. Engen Blunter
98.

The meaning of the word ‘schizophrenia’ is ________

A. Violent behavior
B. Mental disorder
C. Split mind
D. Aggressive behavior
Answer» C. Split mind
99.

Touch related hallucination is known as__________

A. Visual
B. Auditory
C. Somato sensory
D. Tactile
Answer» D. Tactile
100.

A feeling of having noise by schizophrenic person is known as_________

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

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