Someone has been extremely anxious for much of the past year, but can’t explain why. There is a good chance that generalized he is experiencing:
A. generalized anxiety disorder
B. sociopathy
C. psychosis
D. a nervous breakdown
Psychological Disorders and their Treatment MCQs
Irrational and very specific fears that persist even when there is no real danger to a persona are called
A. anxieties
B. dissociation’s
C. phobias
D. obsessions
True paranoids are rarely treated or admitted to hospitals because:
A. they are potentially harmful and dangerous to others
B. they resist the attempts of others to offer help
C. their serve hallucinations make reasoning with them impossible
D. psychiatric hospitals are primarily for psychotics
It has been discovered that all major anti – psychotic drugs:
A. block the action of dopamine
B. facilitate the action of dopamine
C. increase levels of dopamine
D. decrease levels of dopamine
When Saleem returned from combat in the Kargil War, he began experiencing high anxiety that has persisted without any improvement. This example illustrates which anxiety related disorder?
A. panic
B. post – traumatic stress
C. phobia
D. obsessive – compulsive
A researcher seeking an organic basis for schizophrenia would be well – advised to investigate the role of:
A. amphetamines and amphetamine receptors
B. adrenaline and noradrenaline
C. histamine and noradrenaline
D. dopamine and dopamine receptors
_______schizophrenia usually involves delusions of persecution and grandeur.
A. Catatonic
B. Disorganized
C. Paranoid
D. Undifferentiated
Which of the following is characteristic of dissociative disorder?
A. phobic disorder
B. amnesia
C. paranoia
D. depression
In the United States and Latin America, Latinos use the term_______to refer to chronic psychosis:
A. mania
B. Hispania
C. locura
D. ague
A psychosis arising from an advanced stage of syphilis, in which the disease attacks brain cells, is called:
A. Korsakoff syndrome
B. delirium tremens
C. schizotypical psychosis
D. general paresis
