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This set of Abnormal Psychology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Abnormal Psychology Set 3

Q1 | Shock therapy is otherwise known as---
  • eeg
  • ect
  • cat
  • mri
Q2 | Clinical term for causal factor
  • epidemiology
  • etiology
  • prognosis
  • relapse
Q3 | Feeling of apprehension due to the anticipation of danger
  • fear
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • stress
Q4 | Persistent and disproportionate fear of some specific object or situationthat presents little or no actual danger to the person.
  • depression
  • phobia
  • mania
  • stress
Q5 | Mood disorders are formerly known as ---
  • depression
  • anxiety disorders
  • affective disorders
  • somatoform disorders
Q6 | Which disorder is formerly called as Briquet’s disorder
  • somatisation disorder
  • pain disorder
  • hypochondriasis
  • mania
Q7 | Preoccupation with certain aspects of the body
  • ocd
  • gad
  • bdd
  • ptsd
Q8 | In ________one’s sense of self is temporarily lost.
  • depersonalisation
  • derealisation
  • hypochondriasis
  • anxiety
Q9 | Failure to recall previously stored personal information
  • dissociative amnesia
  • somatoform disorders
  • hypochondriasis
  • phobia
Q10 | ______means flight
  • fugue
  • amnesia
  • projection
  • relapse
Q11 | ----is an example of behavior therapy
  • flooding
  • dream analysis
  • psychoanalysis
  • counselling
Q12 | Overt repetitive behaviors or more covert mental acts
  • obsessions
  • compulsions
  • suppression
  • stereotypes
Q13 | Study of the distribution of disorders in a given population
  • epedemiology
  • prevalence
  • prognosis
  • relapse
Q14 | The primary method of treatment for demonic possession was
  • exorcism
  • mass madness
  • psychotherapy
  • flooding
Q15 | Who believed that hysteria is caused by the uterus?
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • hippocrates
  • morgan
Q16 | A condition in which people believed themselves possessed by wolves
  • lycanthropy
  • somatoform disorders
  • hypochondriasis
  • phobia
Q17 | Dancing mania is a part of ------
  • dissociation
  • mass madness
  • exorcism
  • trephination
Q18 | Founder of American psychiatry
  • pinel
  • rush
  • burtonn
  • freud
Q19 | Who is the person behind the rise of mental hygiene movement?
  • dorothea dix
  • pinel
  • hippocrates
  • plato
Q20 | Who is the author of the book A Mind that is found in itself ?
  • rush
  • dorothe dix
  • clifford beers
  • pinel
Q21 | Free Association is dealt with
  • behaviorism
  • mesmerism
  • psychoanalysis
  • functionalism
Q22 | Classical conditioning is put forward by
  • wolpe
  • pavlov
  • skinner
  • bandura
Q23 | Who is the father of Behaviorism?
  • john b watson
  • pavlov
  • skinner
  • bandura
Q24 | Who put forward operant conditioning?
  • wolpe
  • pavlov
  • skinner
  • bandura
Q25 | Process by which stimulus increases the probability of desirable behavior
  • punishment
  • reinforcement
  • shaping
  • chaining