General Awareness

Mental Health and Disorders

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Mental health and disorders cover psychological conditions, behavioral signs, and emotional challenges. These topics appear in general awareness, psychology, and social work exams. Use this guide to practice identifying various mental health conditions.

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Mental Health and Disorders Questions

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Chorophobia is:

  1. Fear of being touched

  2. Fear of dancing

  3. Fear of gaiety

  4. Fear of money
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chorophobia is the fear of dancing. The other options refer to different phobias, such as haphophobia (fear of being touched), cheraphobia (fear of gaiety), or chrometophobia (fear of money).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Chrometophobia is:

  1. Fear of money

  2. Fear of being touched

  3. Fear of dancing

  4. Fear of hair
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Chrometophobia is the fear of money. The other options refer to different phobias, such as haphophobia (fear of being touched), chorophobia (fear of dancing), or chaetophobia (fear of hair).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Chronophobia is:

  1. Fear of gaiety

  2. Fear of time

  3. Fear of anger

  4. Fear of snow
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chronophobia is the fear of time or the passing of time. The other options refer to different phobias, such as cheraphobia (fear of gaiety), cholerophobia (fear of anger), or chionophobia (fear of snow).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Cibophobia is:

  1. Fear of clocks

  2. Fear of dancing

  3. Fear of food

  4. Fear of stealing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cibophobia is the fear of food. The other options refer to different phobias, such as chronomentrophobia (fear of clocks), chorophobia (fear of dancing), or kleptophobia (fear of stealing).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Clinophobia is:

  1. Fear of being enclosed

  2. Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

  3. Fear of stealing

  4. Fear of going to bed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Clinophobia is the abnormal fear of going to bed or falling asleep. The term derives from Greek 'clin' meaning bed. Options A and B both refer to Claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces), while C refers to Kleptophobia (fear of stealing).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Coulrophobia is:

  1. Fear of feces

  2. Fear of constipation

  3. Fear of comets

  4. Fear of clowns
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Coulrophobia is the specific fear of clowns. The term combines 'coulro' (from Greek 'kolon' meaning stilts or limbs, referring to clown's stilts) with 'phobia'. Options A and C are incorrect - A refers to Coprophobia, C has no standard phobia name matching it.

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Crystallophobia is:

  1. Fear of computers or working on a computer

  2. Fear of comets

  3. Fear of crystals or glass

  4. Fear of constipation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Crystallophobia is the fear of crystals or glass. The other options refer to different phobias, such as cyberphobia (fear of computers), cometophobia (fear of comets), or coprastasophobia (fear of constipation).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Cyberphobia is:

  1. Fear of precipices

  2. Fear of computers or working on a computer

  3. Fear of clowns

  4. The preference by a phobic for fearful situations
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Cyberphobia is the fear of computers or working on a computer. The other options refer to different concepts, such as coulrophobia (fear of clowns) or cremnophobia (fear of precipices).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Cyclophobia is:

  1. Fear of bicycles

  2. Fear of crystals or glass

  3. Fear of waves or wave like motions

  4. Fear of making decisions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cyclophobia is the fear of bicycles. The other options refer to different phobias, such as crystallophobia (fear of crystals/glass), kymophobia (fear of waves), or decidophobia (fear of making decisions).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Dendrophobia is:

  1. Fear of dining and dinner conversations

  2. Fear of demons

  3. Fear of crowds

  4. Fear of trees
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Dendrophobia is the abnormal and persistent fear of trees. It comes from Greek 'dendro' meaning tree. Option A refers to Deipnophobia, B to Demonophobia, and C to Demophobia (Ochlophony).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Didaskaleinophobia is:

  1. Fear of skin lesions

  2. Fear of dentists

  3. Fear of going to school

  4. Fear of justice
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Didaskaleinophobia is the specific phobia of going to school. The other options refer to different phobias, such as dentophobia (fear of dentists) or dermatophobia (fear of skin lesions).

Multiple choice

Which of the following behaviours can best be described as overt behaviour?

  1. Watching a TV game show

  2. Thinking about the answer to a contestant's question

  3. Being sad because the contestant answered incorrectly

  4. Wondering if there are any frozen waffles left in the freezer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Overt behaviour is observable, measurable action that can be seen by others. Watching a TV show is overt because it's an observable physical activity. Options B, C, and D are all covert (internal mental processes): thinking, feeling sad, and wondering are mental activities not directly observable.

Multiple choice

The chief antidote for test anxiety is

  1. over preparation

  2. thought suppression

  3. regression

  4. discussing the problem with your professor
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Over preparation (studying thoroughly, practicing, knowing material well) is the most effective antidote for test anxiety because it increases confidence and reduces uncertainty. Thought suppression often backfires (white bear effect). Regression is a defense mechanism unrelated to test prep. Discussing with the professor can help but is situational and less universally effective than thorough preparation.

Multiple choice

Cutting sensory nerves from the stomach, or removing it entirely, causes

  1. a total loss of appetite

  2. eating based on recognized need, not internal feelings of hunger

  3. some changes in eating, but hunger still occurs

  4. the need for patients to be "trained" to eat, otherwise, they would inadvertently starve to death
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Research shows hunger is regulated by multiple signals (blood glucose, hormones, brain signals), not just stomach nerves. Removing stomach sensory nerves changes eating patterns but doesn't eliminate hunger, demonstrating redundancy in hunger regulation. Option D is exaggerated - patients don't need to be 'trained' to avoid starvation.