Z.D Medical Psychology 2019 MCQ

Question 1

What is NOT an anxiety disorder?

Answer 1

These are NOT anxiety disorders (according to DSM-V)- OCD and PTSD

The following are TRUE anxiety disorders:
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Selective Mutism
Specific Phobia
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) Panic Disorder
Panic Attack (Specifier)
Agoraphobia
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition
Other Specified Anxiety Disorder
Unspecified Anxiety Disorder

Question 2

Which of these are true?

Answer 2

• GAD – Generalized anxiety disorder
• CAD – NOT an anxiety disorder
• OCD – Obsessive compulsive disorder

Question 3

Percentage dying of anorexia with onset of disease for 10 years

Answer 3

8%

Question 4

Which personality disorder gives higher mortality

Answer 4

Neuroticism

Question 5

What is true for the preparation and determination steps in behavior change?

Answer 5

Characteristics: understand that change is needed, commitment to specific goals, methods, postpone start date for change.

Strategies: Discuss action plan (practical advices). Set start date, encourage to announce publicly

Question 6

What is true for the precontemplation steps in behavioral change?

Answer 6

Characteristics: lack of awareness, denial of the problem, the problem is identified by others, show reactance when pressured.

Strategies: express concern, ask permission to discuss, give information, encourage to think or read.

Question 7

Why were people negative to Piagat’s study about children?

Answer 7

• The children from Piagat research were from well-educated professionals of high socioeconomic status, because of this unrepresentative sample, it is difficult to generalize his findings to a larger population.

Question 8

In Piagat’s study about children, what would it mean if the child wasn’t able to see the other person’s perspective and egocentric?

Answer 8

That means that the child is still in the pre-operational stage (2-7 years old, according to Piaget). The child has a difficulty taking the viewpoint of others.

Question 9

Which therapy technique is used to find intrinsic motivation?

Answer 9

Motivational interview

Question 10

A mother has two cookies with the same size. She breaks one of the cookies into 4 pieces. The daughter wants the one with the most. And chooses the one with 4 pieces because it seems like more. What’s her personality?

Answer 10

Egocentric

Question 11

Which of these are true relating to cardiovascular disease?

Answer 11

You have 50% higher chance of getting cardiovascular diseases if you are lonely

Question 12

Which statement is true?
-With higher cognitive behavior the risk of stroke decreases
OR
-With higher cognitive behavior, the risk of heart disease decrease

Answer 12

-With higher cognitive behavior, the risk of heart disease decrease

Question 13

Types of stigmas

Answer 13

By Erving Goffmann:
Physical (people living with physical disabilities)
Moral
Racial, national

By Mankoff:
Ascribed (for example- naturally born blind)
Achieved (for example- criminal act)

Question 14

Oedipus complex

Answer 14

Freud further proposed that the Oedipus complex, which originally refers to the sexual desire of a son for his mother, is a desire for the parent in both males and females, and that boys and girls experience the complex differently: boys in a form of castration anxiety, girls in a form of penis envy (Electra complex).

Question 15

Yerkes-dodson law

Answer 15

The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between arousal and performance‭,‬
originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.
The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point (U-shaped curve).