MCQ Bank
A child persistently attempts to sleep in his mother's bed is a sign of an unresolved:
- A) Childhood complex
- B) Oedipus complex
- C) Personal complex
- D) Situational complex
The situation in which a person expresses the feeling of hate to which he loves a lot is an example of which of the following defense mechanism?
- A) Reaction formation
- B) Projection
- C) Fixation
- D) Regression
The id is said to be working under pleasure principle and tries to discharge tension as quickly as it reaches. To do this, it uses:
- A) Secondary process
- B) Reality process
- C) Derivative process
- D) Primary process
Research evidence supports the contention that older clients have a poorer:
- A) Assessment
- B) Prognosis
- C) Diagnosis
- D) Interaction
The ego-analytic approach tends to emphasize the importance of building the patient's trust through which of the followings in the therapy relationship?
- A) Concern
- B) Reparenting
- C) Excessive love
- D) Extreme Care
To search the roots of behaviors psychodynamic approach to therapy focuses on which of the followings?
- A) Unconscious motives and conflicts
- B) Learning from surroundings and environment
- C) Weak decision making and insight
- D) Personal thinkings and beliefs
Which kind of clients is considered best for psychotherapy?
- A) Young adults
- B) Old aged people
- C) Younger patients
- D) Middle aged people
Whenever psychologists purposefully try to produce change in the lives of others, they remain involved in which of the following?
- A) Treatment
- B) Research work
- C) Intervention
- D) Therapies
In an IPT which of the followings includes a diagnostic evaluation and psychiatric history?
- A) Phase 4
- B) Phase 1
- C) Phase 2
- D) Phase 3
Psychology department of a university recently started an entry examination. Scores on that exam will predict who will do well and who will not in Psychology. In this example, level of interpretation is:
- A) Level II
- B) Level IV
- C) Level III
- D) Level I
In early years of psychoanalysis, hysteria was viewed as a "female" disorder, most often marked by all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Muteness
- B) Paralysis
- C) Deafness
- D) Blindness
Sometimes clinicians tend to over interpret patient's symptoms and make predictions that emphasize the negative symptoms. This is known as:
- A) Scotopic sensitivity syndrome
- B) Down syndrome
- C) The reading-in syndrome
- D) Irlen syndrome
Prophesy points out toward which aspect of the clinical assessment?
- A) Diagnosis
- B) Evaluation
- C) Prediction
- D) Assessment
Clinician of which approach is most concerned with standardized tests and their norms.
- A) Psychodynamic approach
- B) Behavioral approach
- C) Humanistic approach
- D) Psychometric approach
Disorders related to which of the following may be missed in the course of psycho therapy?
- A) Obsessive
- B) Psychological
- C) Physical
- D) Alcoholic
While talking about goals of therapy, Hokanson used a classification system. All of the followings are part of this classification EXCEPT:
- A) Corrective emotional experience
- B) Behavior change
- C) Crisis management
- D) Holism
A score at the 95th percentile on test X may be related to recidivism in prisoners. Which of the following is used to interpret the data?
- A) Behavioral approach
- B) Humanistic approach
- C) Psychometric approach
- D) Psychodynamic approach
If a clinician is using psychological techniques to reduce blood pressure, lower resting heart rate or decrease headache, it is being employed to target:
- A) Behavior
- B) Emotions
- C) Biological Process
- D) Thinking
Which of the following emphasizes objectivity and is presumably free from fuzzy thinking?
- A) Subjective approach
- B) Qualitative approach
- C) Quantitative approach
- D) Clinical approach
Thanatos refers to which kind of instincts?
- A) Life instincts
- B) Psychological instincts
- C) Social instincts
- D) Death instincts