Frequently Asked Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

81.22 year old Mahesh had fight with his neighbor's son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that    2 uniformed policeman were following him. On reaching home in the evening,he was frightened. He felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind.What is his symptom?  
a) Passivity
b) Delusion of persecution
c) Auditory hallucination  
d) Thought insertion

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82.Sub cortical dementia is  
a) Memory                    
b) Dyslexia                  
c) Tactile Agnosia  
d) Receptive Aphasia

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83.A 68 year old man complaining of hearing voices from the upper floor using    abusive language believes that somebody is trying to take away his property. He also does unusual things as wearing his vest over his shirt. He could be suffering from  
a) Schizophrenia            
b) Dementia                  
c) Delusion  
d) Hysteria

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84.Tick the proper answer among the answer provided. Hallucination is a  
a) Thinking disorder    
b) Disorder of perception
c) Disorder of motor behavior
d) Disorder of consciousness

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85.Reversible cause of dementia  
a) Post encephalitis        
b) Multi infarct  
c) Hydrocephalus              
d) Senile dementia

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86.Following are predispositions to Alzheimer's disease except  
a) Down's syndrome    
b) Head trauma  
c) Smoking        
d) Low education group

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87.In the absence of auditory hallucination, visual or tactile hallucinations are in favour of one the following conditions  
a) Conversion disorder                                          
b) Panic disorder
c) Manic disorder
d) Organic brain syndrome

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88.Delusions are found in all of the following disorders except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Psychotic depression
c) Mania
d) Personality disorder

 Ans:d

89.False perception without any external stimulus is
a) Hallucination
b) Delusion
c) Illusion
d) Mania

 Ans: a

90. Delusion is not seen in
a) Depression
b) Anxiety
c) Schizophrenia
d) Mania

 Ans:b

91. Delusion of infidelity on part of the sexual partner is known as:
a) De Clerambault's syndrome
b) Couvade syndrome
c) Othello syndrome
d) Ekbim's syndrome

 Ans:c

92. Subcortical dementia is seen in all except
a) Parkinsonism
b) Alzheimer's disease  
c) Wilson's disease  
d) Huntington's Chorea

 Ans:b

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Freshers Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

71.Delusion is  
a) A feeling of loss of sensation                            
b) Not able to get proper answer
c) A false belief
d) An uncomfortable sensation

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72.Which does not cause dementia?  
a) Multiple infarction      
b) Huntington's chorea
c) Alzheimer's disease  
d) Schizophrenia

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73.Illusion with loss of consciousness is seen in  
a) MDP                          
b) Delirium
c) Schizophrenia      
d) Anxiety Neurosis

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74.Dementia is produced by deficiency of vitamin:  
a) A                              
b) D      
c) Pyridoxine          
d) Niacin

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75.Persistent belief in something which is not a fact is  
a) Illusion                      
b) Hallucination          
c) Delusion              
d) Delirium

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76.All are features of Dementia except  
a) Impaired memory                                      
b) Loss of judgment
c) Impaired consciousness
d) Loss of learned function

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77.The most common cause of organic amnestic syndrome is:  
a) Alzheimer's disease  
b) Concussion
c) Hypoxia              
d) Vitamin deficiency

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78.Biochemical etiology of Alzheimer's disease relates it to:  
a) Acetylcholine            
b)GABA                      
c) Serotonin            
d) Dopamine

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79.Dementia is seen in all except:  
a) Head injury                
b) Alzheimer's              
c) chizophrenia      
d) Huntington's chorea

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80.Dissociation is seen in  
a) Schizophrenia      
b) Mania  
c) Hysterical conversion    
d) Organic brain syndrome

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Tricky Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

61. Fugue' state occurs in  
a) Head injury                
b) Depression              
c) Hysteria
d) Mania

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62.AH the following are defense mechanisms of ego except  
a) Projection                  
b)Conversion        
c) Reaction formation    
d) Transference

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63.Characteristic feature of psychosis is  
a) Mood disturbance                                  
b) Suicidal tendency
c) Autistic tendency
d) Acceptance of other persons delusion

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64.The commonest mental illnesses in children are:  
a) Mental retardation    
b) Infantileautism        
c) Enuresis            
d) Neuroses

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65.Oedipus complex has been described by:  
a) Plato                        
b) Socrates          
c) Freud                
d) Huxley

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66.Preoccupation with body diseases is seen in  
a) Obsession                  
b) Somatisation
c) Hypochondriasis
d) Conversion disorder

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67.The most common psychiatric disorder is  
a) Depression                
b) Dementia          
c) Schizophrenia    
d) Paranoia

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68.Mental retardation implies  
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency  
c) Suspicious behavior    
d) Emotional disorder

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69.The classic psychosomatic illness include all of the following except  
a) Essential hypertension
b) Rheumatoid arthritis  
c) Hyperventilation    
d) Bronchial asthma

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70.22 year old Babu had a fight with his neighbor's son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that 2 uniformed policemen were following him. On reaching home he was frightened and he felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind. What is his symptom
a) Delusion of persecution
b) Passivity
c) Auditory hallucination
d) Thought insertion

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Common Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

51.Mental retardation implies  
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency  
c) Suspicious behavior
d) Emotional disorder

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52.Major psychosis is  
a) Neurosis                    
b) Dementia    
c) Reactive depression          
d) Endogenous depression

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53.All are true about hyper kinetic child except  
a) Poor impulse control                          
b) Increase in the anger outburst
c) Right to left disorientation
d) Decrease in attention span

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54.A person missing from home, found wandering purposefully, well groomed, has some   degree of amnesia
a) Dissociative fugue
b) Dissociative amnesia    
c) Schizophrenia
d) Dementia

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55.Delirium and schizophrenia differ from each other by:  
a) Change in mood        
b) Complete consciousness
c) Tangential thinking      
d) All

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56.Concept of super ego was given by:  
a)EricFromm                
b) Sigmund Freud      
c) Eric Erikson        
d) Carl Jung

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57.The following are psychosomatic disorders except  
a) Hypertension            
b) Pepticulcer              
c) Cirrhosis of liver  
d) Asthma

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58.Confabulation means
a) Conversation with imaginary person                  
b) Misinterpretation of stimulus
c) Perception in the absence of stimuli
d) Making stories to IIII up gaps in memory loss

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59.Which category is most prone for suicide  
a) Adolescent girl          
b) Old man      
c) Unemployed youth
d) Married woman

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60.One of the following is used to test
a) Eyesenck personality
b) Ink blot test  
c)Sentence completion      
d) Binet Stanford test

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Best Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

41.Disturbances of affect include all except  
a) Panic                          
b) Apathy  
c) Phobia                
d) Obsession

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42.30 year old man has decreased sleep, hyper sexuality, sexuaHy promiscuous, had spent a lot of money in last 2 weeks. Diagnosis is:  
a) Psychosexual development  
b) Mania          
c) Schizophrenia
d) Hysteria

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43.A false belief unexplained by reality, shared by a number of people is:  
a) Superstition    
b) Illusion                    
c) Delusion              
d) Obsession

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44.hich of the following is a center for recent memory:  
a) Parietal cortex            
b) Temporal lobe      
c) Hippocampus    
d) Thalamus and sub thalamus

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45.Sleep deprivation leads to:  
a) Psychotic behavior                                        
b) Decreased mental alertness
c) Emotional disturbances
d) Anxiety neurosis

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46.A person who is a chronic alcoholic is brought to the casualty. When asked he says that he is drinking because of the quarrels with his wife. The defence mechanism is  
a) Denial                        
b) Rationalization          
c) Sublimation        
d) Projection

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47.Fugue state may be seen in:  
a) Schizophrenia            
b) Hysteria                  
c) Epilepsy              
d) All of the above

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48.Mature defence mechanism is seen in  
a) Altruism
b) Repression
c) Regression
d) None

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49.The following are psychotic disorders except  
a) Schizophrenia            
b) Mania        
c) Psychotic depression        
d) Hysteria

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50.A person quarrels and hits his neighbor. The next day starts feeling that he is being followed by police and that they may arrest him. He also feels that his neighbors are controlling him 

by radio waves. Diagnosis is
a)Delusion of persecution    
b) Schizophrenia  
c) Passivity            
d) Thought insertion

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Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

11.Not a proper match
a) Auditory hallucination - Alcoholism
b) Thought broadcasting-schizophrenia
c) Delusion of infidelity - obsessive compulsive neurosis
d) Delusion of grandeur - mania

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12.Suicidal tendencies are least common with
a) Alone
b) Depression
c) Old age
d) Married person

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13.Psycho analysis was introduced by
a) Freud
b) Schielder
c) Dale & Denicker  
d) Eugen Bluer

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14.'Reinforcement' is used in:
a) Psychoanalysis
b) Hypnoanalysis
c) Abreaction
d) Conditioned learning

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15.Dissociation is seen in all except
a) Somnambulism
b) Fugue
c) Multiple personality
d) None

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16.Thematic perception test is named after  
a) Freud                        
b) Simon paul              
c) Douglas              
d) Wechslers

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17.That part of mind which is working on reality principle is:  
a) Id                                
b) Ego                            
c) Super ego            
d) Ego-ideal

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18.All are features of type A behavior, proposed by Friedman and Rosenman except:  
a) Time urgency and impatience                          
b) Hard driving career orientation
c) Ambitiousness
d) Poor job involvement

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19.Vasanthi 45 years, was brought to casualty with abnormal movements which included persistent deviation of neck    to right side one day before she was prescribed Haloperidol 5 mgs three times daily from the psychiatry OPD.      She also had an altercation with her husband recently. Which of the following is the most likely cause for         her mptoms.  
a) Acute drug dystonia                                          
b) Conversion reaction
c) Acute psychosis
d) Cerebrovascular accident

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20.The commonest cause of mental retardation is:  
a) Alkaptonuria
b) Kluver-Bucy syndrome
c) Korsakoffs syndrome    
d) Birth asphyxia

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