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Psychopathology Quiz Series:1
This page was last updated on 16/01/2010
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1). A client expresses the belief that the armed force is out to kill him. This is an example of:
A. Hallucinations
B. Delusion of persecution
C. Delusion of reference
D. Depersonalization
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2). Inability to recognize objects by touch is known as
A. Adiadochokinesia
B. Anosognosia
C. Apraxia
D. Astereognosis
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3). Feeling of sadness and irritability is termed as:
A. Dysphoria
B. Anedonia
C. Depression
D. Apathy
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4). Omega sign is noticed in patients with:
A. Dementia
B. Schizophrenia
C. Depression
D. OCD
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5). Which is not a negative symptom of schizophrenia:
A. Asociality
B. Anhedonia,
C. Avolition
D. Delusion
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6). The term hallucination was coined by:
A. Jean-Etienne Esquirol
B. Eugin Bleuler
C. Emil Kraepelin
D. Karl Jaspers
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7). Existential philosophy was proposed by:
A. Heidegger
B. Jaspers
C. Immanuel Kant
D. Schneider
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8). "A false perception, which is not a sensory distortion or a misinterpretation which occures at the same time as real perception occures" -Jaspers
This definition referes to;
A. Delusion
B. Hallucination
C. Illusion
D. Delusional perception
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9). A kind of hallucination which is experienced by the subject when falling asleep is called:
A. Hypnopompic hallucination
B. Hypnogogic hallucination
C. Hypnotic hallucination
D. Psuedo-hallucination
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10). One special type of hallucination, which is usually seen with schizophrenia, charecterised by hearing own thoughts being spocken aloud is:
A. Thought broadcasting
B. Extracampine hallucination
C. Gedankenlautwerden
D. folie a à deux
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11). Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia includes all, EXCEPT;
A. Hearing one's own thoughts spocken aloud
B. Running commendary hallucination
C. Thought broadcasting
D. Autistic thining
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12). Serene (visual) hallucinations are more common in:
A. psychiatic disorders associated with epilepsy.
B. depression.
C. obsessive-compulsive disorders.
D. disorganized schizophrenia.
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13). Flight of ideas is typical of:
A. Schizophrenia.
B. Mania.
C. OCD
D. Autism
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14). Ordered flight of ideas is called:
A. Circumstantiality
B. Tangentiality
C. Proilixity.
D. Thought withdrawl
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15). A term used to explain a disorder of thought in which thinking proceeds slowly with many unnecessory trivial details, but finally the point is reached is:
A. Flight of ideas
B. Prolixity
C. Tangentiality
D. Circumstantiality
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16). A delusion in which the patient denies the existance of his body, mind, his loved ones, and the world around him is:
A. Persecutory delusion.
B. Nihilistic delusion.
C. Extracampine delusion.
D. Delusion of reference.
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17). Thought alienation phenomenon includes all, EXCEPT:
A. Thought insertion.
B. Thought blocking
C. Thought broadcasting
D. Primary process thinking.
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18). Olfactory hallucinations are typical of :
A. Schizophrenia.
B. Auras of epilepsy.
C. Mood disorders.
D. Personality disorders
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19). A hallucinatory experience in which the stimulus in one sensory modality produces hallucination in another is:
A. Reflex hallucinations.
B. running commendary hallucinations.
C. Functional hallucination
D. Command hallucination.
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20). The form of thinking explained in psychoanalysis, that is logical, organized, reality oriented, and influenced by the demands of the environment is:
A. Autistic thinking
B. Primary process thinking
C. Secondary process thinking
D. Magical thinking
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2. D |
3. A |
4. C |
5. D |
| 6. A |
7. A |
8. B |
9.B |
10. C |
| 11. D |
12. A |
13. B |
14. C |
15. D |
| 16. B |
17. D |
18. B |
19. C |
20. C |
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