MCQ Bank
With reference to development, the period of 17th century is regarded as the age of:
- A) Shadow
- B) Darkness
- C) Dusk
- D) Reason
Which of the following is INCORRECT with reference to Hierarchical Theory of Intelligence?
- A) There are specific abilities or factors underlying intelligence
- B) There is general intelligence or “g” factor as given by Spearman
- C) Analytical and creative intelligence are important factors
- D) There are the factors of primary mental abilities as identified by Thurstone
Which is NOT a primary symptom of major depressive disorder?
- A) Change in sleep habits
- B) Anhedonia
- C) Change in appetite
- D) Grandiosity
Childhood experiences are the root cause of mental disorders. This is the basic notion of:
- A) Behavioral Perspective
- B) Psychodynamic Perspective
- C) Cognitive Perspective
- D) Medical Perspective
The phobia of darkness is known as:
- A) Nyctophobia
- B) Hydrophobia
- C) Thanatophobia
- D) Agoraphobia
Which of the following is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia?
- A) Hallucinations
- B) Muscular control
- C) Motor activity
- D) Motivation
Salesmen, politicians, teachers, clinicians and religious leaders exhibit which type of intelligence?
- A) Moral intelligence
- B) Emotional intelligence
- C) Social intelligence
- D) Motivational intelligence
Who among the following published the first system of classification of mental diseases?
- A) Charcot
- B) Kraepelin
- C) Griesinger
- D) Phillip Pinal
Which of the following disorder includes forgetting as well as fleeing from one’s home for days and weeks, also being unable to remember one’s identity?
- A) Multiple personality disorder
- B) Dissociative identity disorder
- C) Dissociative Amnesia
- D) Dissociative fugue
Schizophrenics live in an isolated world of their own.They are not interested in others and do no socialize. This is:
- A) Withdrawal
- B) Delusions
- C) Emotional disturbances
- D) Hallucinations
Which of the following type of schizophrenia involves a combination of the major symptoms found in other varieties?
- A) Catatonic Schizophrenia
- B) Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
- C) Disorganized or hebephrenic type
- D) Paranoid Schizophrenia
Who among the following maintained that humans possess around eight kinds of intelligences?
- A) Horney
- B) Gardner
- C) Galton
- D) Sternberg
Which one of the following Axis of DSM-IV-TR deals with General medical conditions?
Axis I
Axis II
Axis III
Axis IV
- A) Axis III
- B) Axis II
- C) Axis I
- D) Axis IV
The phobia of closed spaces is known as:
- A) Aerophobia
- B) Claustrophobia
- C) Agoraphobia
- D) Acrophobia
Practicing an intelligence test will improve which of the following?
- A) Your ability to a specific intelligence
- B) Your intelligence
- C) Your IQ test score
- D) Your general level of ability
Gardner maintained that humans possess around how many kinds of intelligences?
- A) 7
- B) 10
- C) 9
- D) 8
Which of the following can be understood as the typical intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age?
- A) Intelligence Quotient
- B) Emotional Quotient
- C) Intellectual level
- D) Mental age
According to Sternberg triarchic theory, intelligence consists of how many components?
- A) 3
- B) 5
- C) 4
- D) 2
MMPI is an abbreviation of:
- A) Minnesota Multiple Professional Inventory
- B) Milestone Multiphase Professional Inventory
- C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- D) Milestone Multiple Professional Inventory
Identify the year in which DSM IV was published.
- A) 1987
- B) 1994
- C) 1980
- D) 1968