Psychiatry Set 1 – Symptoms & Signs in Psychiatry and Classification
1. Mutism and aldnesis in a person who appears awake and even alert, is best described as
a) Twilight state
b) Oneroid state
c) Steupor
d) Delirium
2. Emotion is controlled by
a) Limbic system
b) Frontal lobe
c) Temporal lobe
d) Occipital lobe
3. A 25 year old woman complains of intense depressed mood for 6 months with inability to enjoy previously pleasurable activities. This symptom is known as –
a) Anhedonia
b)Avolition
c) Apathy
d) Amotivation
4. Alexithymia is
a) A feeling of intense rapture
b) Pathological sadness
c) Affective flattening
d) Inability to recognize and describe feelings
e) Inappropriate mood
5. A person who laughs one minute and cries the next without any clear stimulus is said to have –
a) Incongruent effect
b) Euphoria
c) Labile affect
d) “Split personality”
6. Ambivalence is most commonly seen in –
a) Schizophrenia
b) Hysteria
c) Mania
d) OCN
7. Ambivalence is most commonly associated with –
a) Depression
b) Generalized anxiety disorder
c) Schizophrenia
d) OCD
8.Hallucination is disorder of
a) Thought
b) Perception
c) Memory
d) Intelligence
9. Hallucination and illusion are disturbances of –
a) Thought
b) Perception
c) Sensation
d) Mood
10. Which is not a perceptional disorder/IV/FET/DAS
a) Hallucinations
b) Illusion Pattern
c) Delusion
d) None
