practice questions Flashcards
A _______ approach considers not only key achievements but also the daily lives of
ordinary people and how they may have experienced cultural or scientific change.
a) Whig history
b) Social history
c) Revisionist history
d) Postmodern
B
The decline in the use of insulin shock, as well as psychosurgery, is mostly attributed to
the rise and effectiveness of ________.
a) psychotherapy
b) psychoanalysis
c) psychopharmaceutical medications
d) None of the above
C
The categorization of Miltown as a minor tranquilizer was to differentiate it from
tranquilizers like Thorazine and bring it into closer association with barbiturates.
a) True
b) False
B
Some benefits of cognitive behavioural therapy include:
a) It is cost-effective
b) It is evidence-based
c) It utilizes psychopharmaceuticals
d) A and B only
e) A, B, and C only
D
The most common form of hallucination in schizophrenia is:
a.) Auditory
b.) Visual
c.) Tactile
d.) Olfactory
e.) Gustatory
A
The ______ Model approaches mental health and illness as a binary, and views good
mental health as the natural human state.
a) Biopsychosocial
b) Socio-Behavioural
c) Biomedical
d) Social
e) Psychological-Behavioural
C
What are the societal factors that shape health and help explain health inequities?
a. Social structures
b. Extraneous factors
c. Social determinants of health
d. Structural determinants
C
Who is considered the father of psychoanalysis (a form of psychotherapy)?
a. Carl Jung
b. Ivan Pavlov
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Alfred Adler
C
Depression is a disorder that will often usually spontaneously remit – this means that
even without treatment, it may go away on its own.
a. True
b. False
A
In the 1950s, feminists argued that _______ was being prescribed to women for
conditions that were social problems – fatigue, nervousness, anxiety – rather than
mental illnesses.
a. Miltown
b. Prozac
c. Valium
d. Lithium
C
. What are the possible reasons for the higher prevalence of Schizophrenia diagnosed in
the community with lower socioeconomic status?
a) Poor living/ social conditions increase the risk of a person developing
Schizophrenia
b) Less access to health care
c) Practitioner bias led to higher prevalence
d) Symptoms of schizophrenia lead to poor living/ social conditions
e) All of the above
E
What is disease mongering?
a) Disease that delays in presenting symptoms
b) A marketing strategy that shifts to the idea of selling disease to promote its sales
and profits.
c) Public policy introduced in the 1980s in Canada to favor market-driven policies
for psychopharmaceutical development
d) It is a concept involving the rise of copy-cat medications
e) All of the above
B
- _______ model suggests that biological factors, social conditions, and individual
experiences all contribute to a person’s mental health.
a) Social
b) Psychological-behavioural
c) Biopsychosocial
d) Biomedical
C
The shift from a religious to a scientific explanation of madness, and the subsequent
redefinition of madness as mental illness, was precipitated by all of the following, except
________.
a) scientific revolution
b) enlightenment
c) urbanization
d) deinstitutionalization
D
_____ are used to determine when and how people can stop using maintenance
therapies.
a) Randomized controlled trial
b) Maintenance therapy
c) Discontinuation trials
d) Medicalization
C
