A PET scan involves the injection of:
A. radioactive sugar B. iodine C. metal particles D. xenon gas
Psychological Disorders and their Treatment MCQs
The most serve psychological disorder is a (n):
A. personality disorder B. psychosomatic illness C. anxiety disorder D. psychosis
Persons who are excessively narcissistic, dependent, or antisocial are characterized as having:
A. somatoform disorders B. generalized anxiety C. conversion reactions D. personality disorders
Mood disorders are those in which the personality may:
A. experience serve depression and threaten suicide B. exhibit symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury but for which there is no identifiable cause C. exhibit behavior that is the result of an organic brain pathology D. experience delusions and hallucinations
The famous ruling that led to the present day plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity” is the:
A. common law defense B. Harrison decision C. M’Naghten rule D. Twinkle defense
______schizophrenics shift from one pattern of schizophrenic behavior to another.
A. Catatonic B. Disorganized C. Paranoid D. Undifferentiated
DSM stands for:
A. diagnostic schedule of medicine B. diagnostic and statistical manual C. depressive scale modalities D. doctor or surgical medicine
False beliefs that are held even when the facts contradict them are called:
A. fantasies B. hallucinations C. illusions D. delusions
Three year old Shawn ate lead paint which was chipping off the walls in an older home. Consequently, he developed a psychosis based on brain damage due to lead poisoning. Shawn’s psychosis would be called a(n):
A. functional psychosis B. organic psychosis C. neural psychosis D. neo – cortical psychosis
In some countries, it is normal to defecate or urinate in public. This makes it clear that judgments of the normality of behavior are:
A. culturally relative B. statistical C. a matter of subjective discomfort D. related to conformity