Mental Health Sample Questions and Answers for Professional Nursing
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1. Delusions in clear consciousness are seen in:
a) Dementia
b) Delirium
c) Schizophrenia
d) Neurosis
Answer:c
- Impaired consciousness, visual hallucination, hyperactivity and fragmentary delusions are
a) Delirium
b) Dementia
c) Paranoid psychosis
d) Schizophrenia
Answer:a
3.Dementia is seen in all except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Head injury
c) Huntington’s chorea
d) Cannabis
Answer:c
- Common cause of mood congruent delusions is:
a) Schizophrenia
b) Paraphrenia
c) Paranoia
d) Depression
Answer:d
5.IQ is
a) Mentalage/chronological x 100
b)CA/MAxlOO
c)MA+CA/MAxlOO
d)MA+CA/CAxlOO
Answer:a
6.Which is not a feature of Hyperkinetic child
a) Low IQ
b) Low attention span
c) Right to left dissociation
Answer:c
7.Who introduced cocaine in psychiatry.
a) Freud
b) Jung
c) Miller
d) Stanley
Answer:a
8.Which of the following is a mature defense mechanism
a) Projection
b) Reaction formation
c) Anticipation
d) Denial
Answer:a
9.Most common cause of mood congruent delusion is:
a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c)OCN
d) Dementia
Answer:b
10.The most common post-partum psychosis is
a) Mania
b) Depression
c) Dementia
d) Schizophrenia
Answer:b
PSYCHIATRY MCQs
11.Not a proper match
a) Auditory hallucination – Alcoholism
b) Thought broadcasting-schizophrenia
c) Delusion of infidelity – obsessive compulsive neurosis
d) Delusion of grandeur – mania
Answer:c
12.Suicidal tendencies are least common with
a) Alone
b) Depression
c) Old age
d) Married person
Answer:d
13.Psycho analysis was introduced by
a) Freud
b) Schielder
c) Dale & Denicker
d) Eugen Bluer
Answer:a
14.’Reinforcement’ is used in:
a) Psychoanalysis
b) Hypnoanalysis
c) Abreaction
d) Conditioned learning
Answer:d
15.Dissociation is seen in all except
a) Somnambulism
b) Fugue
c) Multiple personality
d) None
Answer:a
16.Thematic perception test is named after
a) Freud
b) Simon paul
c) Douglas
d) Wechslers
Answer:d
17.That part of mind which is working on reality principle is:
a) Id
b) Ego
c) Super ego
d) Ego-ideal
Answer:b
18.All are features of type A behavior, proposed by Friedman and Rosenman except:
a) Time urgency and impatience
b) Hard driving career orientation
c) Ambitiousness
d) Poor job involvement
Answer:d
20.The commonest cause of mental retardation is:
a) Alkaptonuria
b) Kluver-Bucy syndrome
c) Korsakoffs syndrome
d) Birth asphyxia
Answer:d
21.A Tibetian living in high altitude is now at sea level. His wife died 2 weeks back. He says he has seen his wife twice during this period and she asked him to join her at heaven. The diagnosis is
a) Normal grief reaction
b) Brief reactive psychosis
c) Bereavement reaction
d) Schizophrenia
Answer:b
22.The best account for diagnosis of psychoneurosis is derived from:
a) Verbal accounts
b) Visceral reactions
c) Motor behavior
d) Reaction to environment
Answer:a
23.Ego’s defense mechanism “Undoing” is typically seen in:
a) Depression
b) Schizophrenia
c) Obsessive-compulsive neurosis
d) Hysteria
Answer:c
24.Kalloo, a 24 year old occasional alcoholic has got a change in his behavior. He has become suspicious that people are trying to conspire against him though his father states that there is no reason for his fears. He is getting hallucinations of voices commenting on his actions. What is the most probable diagnosis
a) Delirium tremens
b) Alcohol induced psychosis
c) Schizophrenia
d) Delusional disorder
Answer:c
25.The eight-stage classification of human life is proposed by
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Pavel
c) Strauss
d) Erikson
Answer:d
26.An alcoholic woman was brought to the casualty following a suicide attempt by taking several tablets of diazepam. There is history of previous attempts of suicide by wrist slashing, etc. The type of personality dis order in this woman is
a) Histrionic personality
b)Dependent personality
c) Narcissistic personality
d) Border line personality
Answer:d
27.Patient presents with altered behavior, delusions & hallucination suggest
a) Psychotic disorder
b) Confirms schizophrenia
c) Korsakoff’s psychosis
d) Obsessive-compulsive neurosis
Answer:a
28.All are affective disorder except
a) Depression
b) Obsessive compulsive neurosis
c) Reaction formation
d) Adjustment reaction
Answer:b
29.Commonest psychiatric illness in India is:
a) Schizophrenia
b) Endogenous depression
c) Neurotic depression
d) Anxiety neurosis
Answer:c
30.One of the important defence mechanisms is:
a) Alienation
b) Confabulation
c) Repression
d) Suppression
Answer:c
31.A middle-aged patient was brought to the hospital in stuporous conditions with loss of power in all four limbs. Waxy flexibility of muscle tone in the limbs was detected. The most likely diagnosis is:
a) Hysterical stupor
b) Organic stupor
c) Catatonic stupor
d) Depressive stupor
Answer:d
- Oedipus complex (given by Sigmund Freud) is seen in:
a) Boys of 1 -3 years of age
b) Girls of 1 -3 years of age
c) Boys of 3-5 years of age
d) Girls of 3-5 years of age
Answer:c
33.The term “Ambivalence” was coined by:
a) Hippocrates
b) Eugen Bleuler
c) Kraeplin
d) Sigmund Freud
Answer:b
34.Which of the following is a dissociative phenomenon
a) Fugue
b)Amnesia
c) Deafness
d) Lack of insight
Answer:a
35.Which is most specific of psychosis
a) Pressure of speech
b) Neologism
c) Incoherence
d) Preservation
Answer:b
36.Lesion in autistic disorder is in
a) Corpus collosum
b) Frontal lobe
c) Temporal lobe
d) Cerebellum
Answer:c
37.Basanti age 27 years, female thinks her nose is ugly, her idea is fixed not shared by anyone else. Whenever she goes out of home, she hides her face with a cloth. She visits to surgeon. Next step would be
a) Investigate and then operate
b) Refer to psychiatrist
c) Reassure the patient
d) Immediate operation
Answer:b
38.Irresistible urge to move about and increased motor activity is
a) Rabbits syndrome
b) Malignant neuroleptic syndrome
c) Akathasia
d) Tardive dyskinesia
Answer:c
39.Which is in first rank symptom described by Scheidner?
a) Echolalia
b)Thought insertion
c) Autism
d) Suicidal tendency
Answer:b
40.The characteristic symptom of Hyperkinetic syndrome is
a) Reduced attention span
b) Mental retardation
c) Extreme shyness
d) Truancy
Answer:a
41.Disturbances of affect include all except
a) Panic
b) Apathy
c) Phobia
d) Obsession
Answer:d
43.A false belief unexplained by reality, shared by a number of people is:
a) Superstition
b) Illusion
c) Delusion
d) Obsession
Answer:a
44.Which of the following is a center for recent memory:
a) Parietal cortex
b) Temporal lobe
c) Hippocampus
d) Thalamus and sub thalamus
Answer:c
45.Sleep deprivation leads to:
a) Psychotic behavior
b) Decreased mental alertness
c) Emotional disturbances
d) Anxiety neurosis
Answer:b
46.A person who is a chronic alcoholic is brought to the casualty. When asked he says that he is drinking because of the quarrels with his wife. The defence mechanism is
a) Denial
b) Rationalization
c) Sublimation
d) Projection
Answer:b
47.Fugue state may be seen in:
a) Schizophrenia
b) Hysteria
c) Epilepsy
d) All of the above
Answer:d
48.Mature defence mechanism is seen in
a) Altruism
b) Repression
c) Regression
d) None
Answer:a
49.The following are psychotic disorders except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c) Psychotic depression
d) Hysteria
Answer:d
50.A person quarrels and hits his neighbor. The next day starts feeling that he is being followed by police and that they may arrest him. He also feels that his neighbors are controlling him by radio waves. Diagnosis is
a)Delusion of persecution
b) Schizophrenia
c) Passivity
d) Thought insertion
Answer:b
Psychiatric-Mental Health Sample Questions for Professional Nursing
PSYCHIATRY Objective Questions with Answers
51.Mental retardation implies
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency
c) Suspicious behavior
d) Emotional disorder
Answer:b
52.Major psychosis is
a) Neurosis
b) Dementia
c) Reactive depression
d) Endogenous depression
Answer:d
53.All are true about hyper kinetic child except
a) Poor impulse control
b) Increase in the anger outburst
c) Right to left disorientation
d) Decrease in attention span
Answer:c
54.A person missing from home, found wandering purposefully, well groomed, has some degree of amnesia
a) Dissociative fugue
b) Dissociative amnesia
c) Schizophrenia
d) Dementia
Answer:a
55.Delirium and schizophrenia differ from each other by:
a) Change in mood
b) Complete consciousness
c) Tangential thinking
d) All
Answer:b
56.Concept of super ego was given by:
a)EricFromm
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Eric Erikson
d) Carl Jung
Answer:b
57.The following are psychosomatic disorders except
a) Hypertension
b) Pepticulcer
c) Cirrhosis of liver
d) Asthma
Answer:c
58.Confabulation means
a) Conversation with imaginary person
b) Misinterpretation of stimulus
c) Perception in the absence of stimuli
d) Making stories to IIII up gaps in memory loss
Answer:d
59.Which category is most prone for suicide
a) Adolescent girl
b) Old man
c) Unemployed youth
d) Married woman
Answer:a
60.One of the following is used to test
a) Eyesenck personality
b) Ink blot test
c)Sentence completion
d) Binet Stanford test
Answer:d
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- Fugue’ state occurs in
a) Head injury
b) Depression
c) Hysteria
d) Mania
Answer:c
62.AH the following are defense mechanisms of ego except
a) Projection
b)Conversion
c) Reaction formation
d) Transference
Answer:d
63.Characteristic feature of psychosis is
a) Mood disturbance
b) Suicidal tendency
c) Autistic tendency
d) Acceptance of other persons delusion
Answer:d
64.The commonest mental illnesses in children are:
a) Mental retardation
b) Infantileautism
c) Enuresis
d) Neuroses
Answer:d
65.Oedipus complex has been described by:
a) Plato
b) Socrates
c) Freud
d) Huxley
Answer:c
66.Preoccupation with body diseases is seen in
a) Obsession
b) Somatisation
c) Hypochondriasis
d) Conversion disorder
Answer:c
67.The most common psychiatric disorder is
a) Depression
b) Dementia
c) Schizophrenia
d) Paranoia
Answer:a
68.Mental retardation implies
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency
c) Suspicious behavior
d) Emotional disorder
Answer:b
69.The classic psychosomatic illness include all of the following except
a) Essential hypertension
b) Rheumatoid arthritis
c) Hyperventilation
d) Bronchial asthma
Answer:b
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70.22 year old Babu had a fight with his neighbor’s son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that 2 uniformed policemen were following him. On reaching home he was frightened and he felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind. What is his symptom
a) Delusion of persecution
b) Passivity
c) Auditory hallucination
d) Thought insertion
Answer:c
71.Delusion is
a) A feeling of loss of sensation
b) Not able to get proper answer
c) A false belief
d) An uncomfortable sensation
Answer:c
72.Which does not cause dementia?
a) Multiple infarction
b) Huntington’s chorea
c) Alzheimer’s disease
d) Schizophrenia
Answer:d
73.Illusion with loss of consciousness is seen in
a) MDP
b) Delirium
c) Schizophrenia
d) Anxiety Neurosis
Answer:b
74.Dementia is produced by deficiency of vitamin:
a) A
b) D
c) Pyridoxine
d) Niacin
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Answer:d
75.Persistent belief in something which is not a fact is
a) Illusion
b) Hallucination
c) Delusion
d) Delirium
Answer:c
76.All are features of Dementia except
a) Impaired memory
b) Loss of judgment
c) Impaired consciousness
d) Loss of learned function
Answer:c
77.The most common cause of organic amnestic syndrome is:
a) Alzheimer’s disease
b) Concussion
c) Hypoxia
d) Vitamin deficiency
Answer:b
78.Biochemical etiology of Alzheimer’s disease relates it to:
a) Acetylcholine
b)GABA
c) Serotonin
d) Dopamine
Answer:a
79.Dementia is seen in all except:
a) Head injury
b) Alzheimer’s
c) chizophrenia
d) Huntington’s chorea
Answer:c
80.Dissociation is seen in
a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c) Hysterical conversion
d) Organic brain syndrome
Answer:c
Mental Health Sample Questions and Answers for Professional Nursing
81.22 year old Mahesh had fight with his neighbor’s son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that 2 uniformed policeman were following him. On reaching home in the evening,he was frightened. He felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind.What is his symptom?
a) Passivity
b) Delusion of persecution
c) Auditory hallucination
d) Thought insertion
Answer:b
82.Sub cortical dementia is
a) Memory
b) Dyslexia
c) Tactile Agnosia
d) Receptive Aphasia
Answer:c
83.A 68 year old man complaining of hearing voices from the upper floor using abusive language believes that somebody is trying to take away his property. He also does unusual things as wearing his vest over his shirt. He could be suffering from
a) Schizophrenia
b) Dementia
c) Delusion
d) Hysteria
Answer:c
84.Tick the proper answer among the answer provided. Hallucination is a
a) Thinking disorder
b) Disorder of perception
c) Disorder of motor behavior
d) Disorder of consciousness
Answer:a
85.Reversible cause of dementia
a) Post encephalitis
b) Multi infarct
c) Hydrocephalus
d) Senile dementia
Answer:a
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86.Following are predispositions to Alzheimer’s disease except
a) Down’s syndrome
b) Head trauma
c) Smoking
d) Low education group
Answer:c
87.In the absence of auditory hallucination, visual or tactile hallucinations are in favour of one
the following conditions
a) Conversion disorder
b) Panic disorder
c) Manic disorder
d) Organic brain syndrome
Answer:d
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88.Delusions are found in all of the following disorders except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Psychotic depression
c) Mania
d) Personality disorder
Answer:d
89.False perception without any external stimulus is
a) Hallucination
b) Delusion
c) Illusion
d) Mania
Answer: a
- Delusion is not seen in
a) Depression
b) Anxiety
c) Schizophrenia
d) Mania
Answer:b
- Subcortical dementia is seen in all except
a) Parkinsonism
b) Alzheimer’s disease
c) Wilson’s disease
d) Huntington’s Chorea
Answer:b
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