Question bank & solution on updated mental health-Hn20 3.0v

 Question bank & solution on updated mental health

1. Scientific examination of human behavior is called:

a. Anthropology

b. Civic science

c. Social science

d. None of the above

2. society is defined as:

a. An association patterned on norms of interaction

c. A conglomeration of people

c. A group of people bound by rules

d. An association with regulated membership

3. Phobia is defined as:

a. Excessive fear

b. constant preoccupation with having a severe disease

c. Needless anxiety

d. Loss of the inner driving force

4.  The following one is not a ‘Psychosocial disease:

a. Essential HTN

b. Chronic bronchitis

c.  Peptic ulcer

d. Ulcerative colitis

5. Sociology--- Study of human relationships.

6. Culture----Learned behavior that has been socially acquired.

7. Psychology---Study of human behavior.

8. Anthropology---Study of the social, physical, and cultural history of man.

9. Habit is:

a. Tendency to behave in a consistent manner in changeable situations

b. Accustomed way of doing things

c. Adjustments to meet the needs of a given situation

d. Views held by people on a point of dispute

10.  The following is a characteristic of anxiety:

a. Dry mouth        b. Diarrhea

c. Rapid pulse      d. Above all

11. False perception without any external stimulus is:

a. Derealisation       b. Delusion

c. Illusion           d. Hallucination

12. The following  is a defense mechanism

a. Projection        b. Rationalization

c. Displacement      d. Above all

13. IQ is calculated from:

a. Mental age

b. Height and weight

c. Chronological age

d. Chronological and mental age

14. A normal person has ……..IQ:

a. 80-89          b. 70-79

c. 110-119        d. 90-109

15. Aim of the interview is:

a. To collect data for quantitative purposes

b. To form a hypothesis

c. Secure information through face to face association

d. All of the above

16. Family in which parents have separated or where death has occurred of one or both the parents is:

a. Single parent family

b. Incomplete family

c. Broken family

d. Problem family

17. Physical drug dependence is defined as:

a. Patient shows ’withdrawal symptoms’ when the drug is withdrawn

b. Patient’s tendency to increase the dose/

c. Overpowering desire to take the drug

d. All of the above

18. The following is not a characteristic of a ‘crowd’:

a. Motivated by a common interest

b. Has a leader who forces members into action

c. Temporary group of people

d. Lacks internal organization

19. ………….. is not a feature of the family:

a. Eating from a common kitchen

b. All members are not blood relations

c. People living together

d. Share a common physical and social environment

20. The term’ introvert-extrovert was coined by:

a. Erikson       b. Carl Jung

c. Adolf Meyer   d. Sigmund freud

21. ‘Imbecile’ has an I.Q. of :

a. 70-79           b. 25-49

c. 50-69          d. 80-89

22. The first tests for intelligence were devised by:

a. Binet and Simon    c. Raven

b. Terman        d. Gessel

23. Utilization of scientific methods of investigation in the study of complex human organizations and services is:

a. Public health research

b. System analysis

c. Network analysis

d. Operational research

24. Country is ruled by a family group in which type of government:

a. Autocracy     b. Oligarchy     

c. Democracy      d. Monarchy

25. One of the following is not correct about joint family :

a. Women are wives, unmarried girls, and widows of family kinsmen

b. Consist of a number of married couples and their children

c. Marital relations enjoy primacy over familial relations

d. All the authority is vested in senior male members of the family

26. Intelligence quotient is:

a. Mental age/Chronological age×100

b. 100-chronological age/Mental age

c. Chronological age/mental age×100

d. Mental age/chronological age +100

27. In schizophrenia, the etiology is best illustrated by:

a. Genetics due to a faulty dopamine receptor

b. A combination of environmental, biological, and psychological factors

c. Poor parenting and environmental factors

d. Neurobiological and Structural factors

28. In schizophrenia, positive symptoms include one of the following:

a. Echolalia, Somatic delusions, and a flat affect

b. Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking

c. Flat affect, avolition, and anhedonia

d. Alogia, apathy, and waxy flexibility

29. A clients with the phobia, the best effective therapy is:

a. Cognitive therapy

b. Hypnotherapy

c. Group therapy

d. Behaviour therapy

30. What childhood problem has legal as well as emotional aspect and can’t be ignored:

a. Sleep disturbances

b. Fear of animals

c. School phobia

c. Fear of monsters

31. The following feature of anxiety  is related to a diagnosis of CD(conversion disorder):

a. Relieved by symptoms

b. Free-floating

c. Projected onto the environment

d. Consciously felt by the client

32. A client who experiences false sensory perceptions with no basis in reality. These perceptions are called:

a. Hallucinations

b. Delusions

c. Loose associations

d. Neologisms

34. In clients with bulimia nervosa,  ………………. medical condition is a usually found:

a. Diabetes mellitus

b. Hepatitis A

c. Allergies

d. Cancer

35. OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder) is best described by:

a. Uncontrolled impulse to perform an act or ritual repeatedly

b. Persistent thoughts

c. Pathological persistence of unwilled thought, feeling, or impulse

d. Recurring unwanted and disturbing thoughts alternating with a behavior

36. An elderly who has lots of regrets, is unhappy, and is miserable is experiencing:

a. Loss             b. Crisis

c. Despair        d. Ambivalence

37. The goal of remotivation therapy is to facilitate:

a. Socialization     b. Insight

c. Intimacy             d. Productivity

38. In phobia, the goal of therapy is:

a. Ignore reaction-producing situation

b. Change her/his reaction toward anxiety

c. Eliminate fear-producing situations

d. change his/ her lifestyle

39. The following one therapy has been strongly advocated for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder:

a. Group therapy          b. ECT

c. Psychoanalysis         d. Hypnotherapy

40. Which of the following is a very crucial delicate stage in the development of personality:

a. Childhood          b. Young adult

c. Infancy       d. Puberty and adolescence

41. The following method is not used to treat mentally ill patients:

a. Rehabilitation      b. Counseling

c. EGG           d. ECT

42. Withdrawal symptoms of tobacco are:

a. Tremors      b. Irritability

c. Anxiety        d. Above all

43. Most commonly abused agent in Nepal is:

a. Heroine         b. Tobacco

c. Cannabis       d. Amphetamine

44. Enuresis is more common in:

a. Girls      b. Elderly

c. Adolescent   d. Boys   

45. School phobia is usually treated by:

a. Allowing the child to enter the classroom before other children

b. Calmly explain why presence at school is necessary

c. Permitting the parent to accompany the child to the classroom

d. Returning the child to school immediately

46. Functional mental illness is mainly the result of:

a. Infection and inflammation

b. Social environment

c. Deterioration of brain tissue

d. Genetic factors

47. The symptoms of  psychoneurosis are:

a. Compulsions         b. Obsessions

c. Morbid  fear          d. Above all

48. Which of the following nutritional factors are responsible for producing abnormal human behavior is:

a. Pyridoxine deficiency

b. Iodine deficiency

c. Thiamine deficiency

d. Above all 

49. A delusion is:

a. Not amenable to reason

b. A disorder of perception

c. Recognized as silly by the patient

d. A false belief

50. Group therapy can best help those who:

a. Have no one to listen

b. Feel they have a problem

c. Are/is dependent on others

d. Are/is emotionally ill

51. Anorexia nervosa is most often seen in:

a. Young women

b. Teenage girls

c. Both a and b

d. None

52. Fear is an:

a. Time stress      b. Situational stress

c. Anticipatory stressor

d. Encumbers stress

53. Most common emotion of man is:

a. Fear      b. Anger

c. Anxiety     d. Phobia

54. The indication of ECT is:

a. Severe depression and suicidal risk

b. Post-partum depression and psychosis

c. Both a and b

d. Epilepsy

55. Social withdrawal is the most common symptom of:

a. Depression     b. Psychosis

c. Anxiety neurosis    d. Epilepsy

56. Schizophrenia is a type of:

a. Acute organic psychosis

b. Affective psychosis

c. Functional psychosis

c. Chronic organic psychosis

57. Another term for the superego is:

a. Narcissism       b. Self

c. Conscience       d. Ideal self

58. One of the following is not an intellectual response:

a. Reasoning        b. perception

c. Habits            d. Thinking

59. The following one is a mood disorder:

a. Depressive disorder

b. Somatoform disorder

c. Obsessive-compulsive disorder

d. Schizophrenia

60. Bedwetting among the children is best treated by:

a. Strict restriction of the fluids

b. Positive reinforcement

c. Medications

d. Punishment

61. Involuntary defecation in older children is known as:

a. Pica         b. Enuresis

c. Autism     d. Encopresis  

62. Moderate mental retardation is:

a. 50-70           b. 20-34

c. 71-90           d. 35-49

63. Severe mental retardation children have IQ:

a. 35-49          b. 21-34

c. 35-69         d. <20

64. Moron is one with an IQ of:

a. 50-69            b. 70-79

c. 0-24          d. 24-49

65. A person with an IQ of 55 is:

 a. Mild mental retardation

b. Profound mental retardation

c. Moderate mental retardation

d. Severe mental retardation

66. The goal of re-motivation therapy is to facilitate:

a. Productivity       b. Intimacy

c. Insight            d. Socialization

67. The ability to tolerate frustration is an example of:

a. Superego       b. Id

c. Unconscious    d. Ego 

68. Interpersonal theory is given by:

a. Harry stack Sullivan

b. Sigmund Freud

c. B.F. Skinner

c. Hidegard  Petplan

69. The patient strongly says and believes firmly that he is Lord Shiva. The symptom is called:

a. Hallucination      b. Perception

c. Illusion         d. Delusion

70. The theory of psychosexual development was given by:

a. Sigmund Freud    b. Piaget

c. Sullivan        d. Eriksson    

72. The term schizophrenia means:

a. Disturbance of mood

b. Multiple personalities

c. Splitting personalities

d. Splitting of mind and effect

73. The following drugs produce physical dependence except:

a. Alcohol        b. Heroin

c. Barbiturate    d. Cocaine

74. The following one is related to Ambivalence:

a. Depression      b. OCD

C. Hysteria        d. Schizophrenia

75. Withdrawal  symptoms of steroid dependency include:

a. Insomnia        b. Restlessness

c. Depressed mood   d. Above all

76. Anti-psychotics are also termed as:

a. Mood elevators

b. Neuroleptics

c. Benzodiazepam

d. Mood stabilizers

77. Schizophrenia is a:

a. Neurosis

b. Personality disorder

c. Psychosis

d. Anxiety disorder

78. Who is the first psychiatrist in Nepal?

a. Dr. Bishnu  Prasd Sharma

b. Dr. B.D. Sharma

c. Dr. M.K. Nepal

d. Dr. Pushpa Prasad Sharma

79. Followings are characteristics of a mentally healthy person except:

a. Has self-respect

b. Able to like and trust others  

c. Unable to accept his shortcomings

d. Able to meet the demands of life

80. Epileptic fits are differentiated from hysterical fits by:

a. Injury        b. Sleep convulsions

c. Incontinence    d. Amnesia

81. One of the following is an antipsychotic drug:

a. Cloipramine       b. Nitrazepam

c. Chlorpromazine   d. Amitriptyline

82. One of the following mineral deficiencies is related to mental health:

a. Zinc      b. Iodine

c. Calcium     d. Iron

83. The following all are major mental illnesses except:

a. Psychoneurosis    b. Praranoia

c. Schizophrenia

d. Manic depressive psychosis

84. A client explains that the food is being poisoned to kill him. This is:

a. Delusion of grandeur  

b. Delusion of persecution

c. Impaired judgment

d. Hallucination 

85. Firstly, psychiatric outpatient services started in Bir hospital in Nepal in:

a.1965       b. 1961

c. 1968      c. 1970

86. In most psychosis changes observed in the brain are all related to:

a. Enzymes      b. Hormones

c. Electrolyte      d. Neurotransmitter

87. Aura is a typical sign of:

a. Neurosis     b. Psychosis

c. Epilepsy      d. Conversion disorder

88. The following one is not a psychoactive drug:

a. Marijuana       b. Heroine

c. Asprin       d. LSD

89. The following indicates absolute contraindication of ECT:

a. Liver disease     b. Pregnancy

c. Myocardial infarction

d. Intracranial pressure

90. The features of personality are:

a. product of heredity and environment

b. Static and dynamic

c. Function as a unified whole

d. Above all

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