Abnormal Psychology Set 4

Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology (BSc Counselling Psychology)

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This set of Abnormal Psychology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Abnormal Psychology Set 4

Q1 | Who deve3loped the first diagnostic system?
  • clifford beers
  • freud
  • emil kraeplin
  • skinner
Answer: emil kraeplin
Q2 | An Austrian physician who conducted early investigations into hypnosisas a medical treatment
  • clifford beers
  • freud
  • emil kraeplin
  • anton mesmer
Answer: anton mesmer
Q3 | who propounded psychoanalysis?
  • clifford beers
  • freud
  • emil kraeplin
  • skinner
Answer: freud
Q4 | Condition in which person is intentionally producing or grosslyexaggerating physical symptoms and is motivated by external incentives
  • malingering
  • factitious disorder
  • somatoform disorder
  • dissociative disorder
Answer: factitious disorder
Q5 | Partial or total inability to recall or identify previously acquiredinformation or experience
  • retrograde amnesia
  • anterograde amnesia
  • somatoform disorder
  • dissociative disorder
Answer: retrograde amnesia
Q6 | Partial or total inability to recall or identify new information or experience
  • retrograde amnesia
  • anterograde amnesia
  • somatoform disorder
  • dissociative disorder
Answer: anterograde amnesia
Q7 | Legal term for mental disorder
  • insanity
  • abnormality
  • introjection
  • intromission
Answer: insanity
Q8 | Emotion or feeling is otherwise known as ---
  • affect
  • mania
  • dythymia
  • amnesia
Answer: affect
Q9 | Institutions meant solely for the care of the mentally ill during ancienttimes
  • asylums
  • mental hospitals
  • shrines
  • church
Answer: asylums
Q10 | Discharge of emotions associated with something
  • catharsis
  • cathexis
  • reinforcer
  • shaping
Answer: catharsis
Q11 | Negative stress is
  • eustress
  • distress
  • frustration
  • pressure
Answer: distress
Q12 | Positive stress is
  • eustress
  • distress
  • frustration
  • pressure
Answer: eustress
Q13 | Religiously inspired treatment procedure to drive out evil spirits.
  • exorcism
  • shrining
  • therapy
  • hypnosis
Answer: exorcism
Q14 | Characteristic of a person that can be observed or measured
  • character
  • trait
  • type
  • trance
Answer: trait
Q15 | Conditions involving physical complaints without evidence of physicalpathology
  • dissociation
  • somatoform disorder
  • mpd
  • gad
Answer: somatoform disorder
Q16 | Effects created within an organism by the application of stressor
  • stress
  • distress
  • frustration
  • pressure
Answer: stress
Q17 | Write the odd one
  • exorcism
  • shrine
  • trephination
  • flooding
Answer: flooding
Q18 | Write the odd one
  • sublimation
  • displacement
  • hallucination
  • rationalisation
Answer: hallucination
Q19 | Conscience,ethical or moral dimensions of personality
  • id
  • ego
  • super ego
  • libido
Answer: super ego
Q20 | Abnormal physical or mental condition
  • psychology
  • pathology
  • madness
  • stress
Answer: pathology
Q21 | __________ is the historical name for schizophrenia.
  • Delusion
  • Paranoia
  • Dementia praecox
  • Split mind
Answer: Dementia praecox
Q22 | The term schizophrenia is coined by ____________
  • Engen Blunter
  • Emile Kreaplin
  • Setin
  • Seligman
Answer: Engen Blunter
Q23 | The meaning of the word ‘schizophrenia’ is ________
  • Violent behavior
  • Mental disorder
  • Split mind
  • Aggressive behavior
Answer: Split mind
Q24 | Touch related hallucination is known as__________
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Somato sensory
  • Tactile
Answer: Tactile
Q25 | A feeling of having noise by schizophrenic person is known as_________
  • Visual hallucination
  • Auditory hallucination
  • Olfactory hallucination
  • False perception
Answer: Auditory hallucination
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