MCQ Bank
Who among the following differentiated between ‘dementia praecox’ (now known as schizophrenia) and depressive psychosis?
- A) Mesmer
- B) Kraepelin
- C) Tuke
- D) Pinel
Which of the following is NOT a behavioral disturbance exhibited by schizophrenics?
- A) Increased motivation
- B) Avolition
- C) Odd facial expressions
- D) Repetitive movements
Thorndike divided intelligence into three main divisions. Which of the following is not one of them?
- A) Concrete intelligence
- B) Fluid intelligence
- C) Social intelligence
- D) Abstract intelligence
Hippocrates maintained that four humors led to four temperaments forming one’s personality. All of the followings are temperaments EXCEPT:
- A) Melancholic
- B) Sanguine
- C) Choleric
- D) Metabolic
Who among the following is the inventor of fingerprint identification?
- A) Charles Darwin
- B) Kurt Koffka
- C) James McKeen Cattell
- D) Francis Galton
All of the followings are the methods of assessing personality EXCEPT:
- A) Psychological tests
- B) Positron Emission Tomography
- C) Interview
- D) Observation and behavioral assessment
There are a number of IQ tests are available, but the clinicians make sure to that a test has all the qualities EXCEPT:
- A) Lengthy
- B) Valid
- C) Standardized
- D) Reliable
If you believe that abnormality is “learned”, you must be a follower of:
- A) Psychodynamic Perspective
- B) Behavioral Perspective
- C) Cognitive Perspective
- D) Medical Perspective
WAIS-R consists of two major parts. All of the followings are the subscales of verbal scale EXCEPT:
- A) Similarities
- B) Object assembly
- C) Arithmetic
- D) Information
Paper pencil measures wherein the subjects are asked questions about a sample of their behavior are known as:
- A) Self biased measures
- B) Self- report measures
- C) Self serving measures
- D) Personal tests
Who gave the concept of “Hereditary genius”?
- A) James McKeen Cattell
- B) Kurt Koffka
- C) Charles Darwin
- D) Francis Galton
Which of the following refers to an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something?
- A) Phobia
- B) Stress
- C) Depression
- D) Anxiety
If a man once experiences chest pain while visiting a departmental store and later experiences anxiety attacks whenever visits departmental stores, this can be explained by what type of learning?
- A) Vicarious
- B) Classical conditioning
- C) Observational
- D) Operant
WAIS-R was developed by which of the following psychologist?
- A) Raymond Cattell
- B) David Wechsler
- C) Simon-Binet
- D) James Mckeen Cattell
All of the following as employed for treatment of chronic forms of anxiety EXCEPT:
- A) Exposure therapy
- B) Behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy
- C) Medications and use of psychotherapy
- D) Electroencephalogram
Identify the name of snake phobia.
- A) Claustrophobia
- B) Agoraphobia
- C) Ophidiophobia
- D) Aerophobia
Identify the name of height phobia.
- A) Aerophobia
- B) Agoraphobia
- C) Claustrophobia
- D) Acrophobia
With reference to development, the period of 18th century is regarded as the age of:
- A) Enlightenment
- B) Darkness
- C) Reason
- D) Shadow
With which of the following test problems and tendencies like Depression, Hysteria, Paranoia, and Schizophrenia can be identified and at the same time it can be used to predict if college students will marry within 10 years?
- A) Rorschach
- B) HTP
- C) MMPI
- D) TAT
Who among the followings was first to distinguish between the acute and chronic mental disorders?
- A) Plato
- B) Hippocrates
- C) Asclepiades
- D) Socrates