MCQ Bank
AIDS stands for:
- A) Acquired internal deficiency syndrome
- B) Acquired internal disturbance syndrome
- C) Acquired immune disturbance syndrome
- D) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Which of the following hormone is a short-term appetite stimulant, produced in the stomach?
- A) Ghrelin
- B) Leptin
- C) Cholecystokinin (CCK)
- D) Pepsin
After the progression of AIDS, patient survives only __________ months.
- A) 14
- B) 11
- C) 9.2
- D) 15
Any activity people undertake to maintain or improve current good health and avoid illness is:
- A) Well-role behavior
- B) Symptom-based behavior
- C) Sick-role behavior
- D) Wellness behavior
The condition of having high blood pressure consistently over an extended period of time is called:
- A) Hyperthyroidism
- B) Hypertension
- C) Hypotension
- D) Hypothyroidism
HIV virus progressed into AIDS with the median time of _____________ years.
- A) 9 to 10
- B) 5 to 6
- C) 2 to 3
- D) 12 to 15
Identify the imaging procedure in which an X-ray machine was linked to a computer which takes the pictures of particular organs for diagnosis of cancer.
- A) PET scan
- B) CT scan
- C) MRI
- D) X-ray
Negative reinforcement brings about the increase of a behavior through the _____ of a stimulus.
- A) Addition
- B) Gossip
- C) Removal
- D) Presentation
Three of the following are examples of positive reinforcement. Which one is not?
- A) When Fawad tells a funny joke, his classmates laugh. He soon becomes the class clown, telling jokes at every opportunity.
- B) When Zaina's teacher praises her in class for her oral report, she is embarrassed and vows never to act so smart in front of her friends again.
- C) When Asma realizes that she can leave physical education class early by complaining about a stomach ache. She starts complaining every week.
- D) When Ali changes the way he throws the airplane, he finds that it goes farther than it ever has before, and so he started following new technique.
Ali’s father takes proper exercise to maintain his health. Ali performs the same activity after observing the good effects on his father’s health. Which type of learning has been adopted by Ali?
- A) Reinforcement
- B) Modeling
- C) Habituation
- D) Extinction
The majority of deaths in developed countries result from three chronic diseases which include all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Stroke
- B) Diabetes
- C) Cancer
- D) Heart disease
All of the following are adjustment problems faced by people with chronic illness EXCEPT:
- A) Recreational
- B) Emotional
- C) Vocational
- D) Physical
The spread of cancer is called:
- A) Mitosis
- B) Metastasis
- C) Meiosis
- D) All of the given options
Which of the following statement is FALSE regarding relationship between diet and hypertension?
- A) Dietary sodium (salt) increases blood pressure, especially for salt-sensitive people
- B) Dietary potassium counteracts sodium effects
- C) Caffeine increases blood pressure
- D) Table salt decreases blood pressure
Deprivation of _________ leads to imbalance blood supply to the brain which leads to stroke.
- A) Oxygen
- B) Nitrogen
- C) Carbon dioxide
- D) Hydrogen
Which of the following is NOT a heart disease?
- A) Cardic Failure
- B) Cardic enlargement
- C) Heart attack
- D) Stroke
EBV is an abbreviation of which of the following virus which can cause lymphoma?
- A) Einstein Barr Virus
- B) Esptein-Barr Virus
- C) Eperes Barr Virus
- D) Esperin Barr Virus
Ali is suffering from arthritis and unable to enjoy family gatherings, parties and sexual intimacy with his wife. Identify which type of adjustment problems he is experiencing?
- A) Social
- B) Compliance
- C) Emotional
- D) Physical
AIDS emerged as a major killer in ________________.
- A) 1980s
- B) 1960s
- C) 1970s
- D) 1990s
HTLV-1 increases the chances that a person will suffer from which type of diseases?
- A) Leukemia
- B) Hepatitis
- C) Liver cancer
- D) Breast cancer