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Psychiatric Nursing Quiz |
Psychopathology Quiz - I |
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1). A client expresses the belief that the armed force is out to kill him. This is an example of:Copyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz
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. AdiadochokinesiaCopyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz
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,
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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 occurs at the same time as real perception occurs" -Jaspers
This definition refers 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. Pseudo-hallucination
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10). One special type of hallucination, which is usually seen with schizophrenia, characterized by hearing own thoughts being spoken aloud is:
A. Thought broadcasting
B. Extracampine hallucination
C. Gedankenlautwerden
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11). Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia includes all, EXCEPT:
A. Hearing one's own thoughts spoken aloud
B. Running commentary hallucination
C. Thought broadcasting
D. Autistic thinking
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12). Serene (visual) hallucinations are more common in:
A. psychiatric 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. Prolixity.Copyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz
D. Thought withdrawal
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15). A term used to explain a disorder of thought in which thinking proceeds slowly with many unnecessary trivial details, but finally the point is reached is:
A. Flight of ideas
B. Prolixity
C. Tangentiality
D. Circumstantiality
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| 1. B |
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 |
References Copyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz
- Psychiatry, Third Edition. Edited by Allan Tasman, Jerald Kay, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Michael B. First and Mario Maj. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008.
- Sims, A. Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (3rd ed). Elsevier, 2002.
- Fish, F. (1967) Clinical Psychopathology, Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry. Bristol: J. Wright & Sons.
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