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

A person who is mentally deranged due to some mental strain or other personal experience and suffers from intermittent intervals of sanity and insanity is

  1. idiot person

  2. lunatic person

  3. intoxicated person

  4. all of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A lunatic is a person who becomes mentally deranged due to mental strain or personal experience and has alternating periods of sanity and insanity. Unlike an idiot, who is permanently mentally incapable from birth, a lunatic may have lucid intervals. Option A (idiot) refers to permanent incapacity from birth. Option C (intoxicated) is temporary and voluntary. Option D is incorrect because these are distinct categories with different legal implications.

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence given below is followed by 4 alternatives. Select the one which most logically complements the idea contained in the given sentence.

Dogs become disturbed when the brain is confused by stimuli that run counter to what the dog has learned to expect, when stimuli makes no sense within the victim's established frame of reference.

This means that a dog becomes disturbed when

  1. the provocation does not have a recognizable pattern

  2. established response-stimuli links are broken

  3. a new situation stirs old memories

  4. the animal is not able to relate the stimuli to any past experience of the same kind
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'Established frame of reference' in the given sentence suggests the past experience, hence, option (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

A students class is a windowless room and he needs to be assigned to another classroom. The student may be suffering from which of the following phobia?

  1. Acrophobia

  2. Agoraphobia

  3. Claustrophobia

  4. Hydrophobia

  5. Toxophobia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder; the sufferer has an irrational fear of having no escape or being closed-in. It frequently results in panic attack and can be triggered by certain stimuli or situations, such as being in a crowded elevator, a room without windows, or sitting in an airplane. Some people may even experience claustrophobia when wearing tight-necked clothing.

Multiple choice

Select from the following the correct meaning of the word 'Nostalgia'.

  1. A fatal disease

  2. Longing for things that are past

  3. An allegorical story

  4. A state of excessive fear and anxiety
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Nostalgia' means a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past - typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. It's not a fatal disease (that would be something else), not an allegorical story, and not about anxiety disorders. The word comes from Greek 'nostos' (return home) and 'algos' (pain).

Multiple choice

Flashbulb memories, which are vigorous, lasting images of events associated with personal tragedy, may be produced in part by

  1. epinephrine

  2. increased serotonin levels

  3. decreased serotonin levels

  4. decreased ACTH levels

  5. increased ACTH levels
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

ACTH is secreted from the anterior pituitary in response to corticotropin-releasing hormone from the hypothalamus. Corticotropin-releasing hormone is secreted in response to many types of stress, which makes sense in view of the stress management functions of glucocorticoids.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six statements.

1 Depression is the most common psychology disorder. A. For instance, employees with low self-esteem and attribute to negative life events to stable internal pauses. B. In contrast to most people, depressed individuals tend to adopt an opposite pattern.
C. Although many factors play a role in depression, one that has received much attention is termed self defeating pattern of attributions. D. Indeed, it is estimated more than 10% of all people are suffering from it to some degree. 6 But for positive life events, they are attributed to temporary external causes (like lucky breaks).

  1. ACDB

  2. CADB

  3. DCBA

  4. ABDC
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sentence 1 introduces depression as most common psychological disorder. Sentence D describes more than 10% of all people suffering from 'it' becomes attributed to depression. So, DCBA is the correct option.

Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

Many addictions aim to increase arousal. This is the all-powerful feeling that might come from cocaine, amphetamines, the first few drinks of alcohol, shoplifting, sexual acting out, videogames, or gambling. This omnipotent feeling, however, is eventually undermined when the addict realizes that a dependency has been formed. A feeling of fear replaces the feeling of being all powerful – fear of losing the source of addiction and fear that others will find out how powerless the person actually is. Negative experiences always accompany the positive feelings the addict is seeking.

  1. An addict’s intention is only stimulation and not dependency.

  2. The falseness in the potency of some substances and activities reflects on an addict.

  3. An addict’s dependency is derived from his misunderstanding of the hidden potential of an addictive substance.

  4. The potentate is eventually enfeebled by indulgence in addictive substances or activities.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  1. Neither stimulation nor dependency is the intention; it is the sense of feeling all-powerful. This power may come through stimulation or arousal. The last sentence makes it clear that an addict seeks positive feelings, i.e. power.
    1. True. An addict eventually comes to realise the falseness in the induced power by anything that stimulates. This eventually takes a toll on the addict, as the addict becomes fearful.
    2. The author does not talk about the hidden potential of addictive substances.
    3. It is not correct to say that a powerful person gets weakened by indulging in addictive substances. Instead, a person thinks that he has become powerful by indulging in addictive substances.
Multiple choice

____ is state of clouded consciousness in which attention cannot be sustained, the environment is wrongly perceived and there is disturbance of thinking.

  1. Dementia

  2. Delirium

  3. Depression

  4. Maniac
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Delirium is an acute confusional state characterized by impaired attention, disorganized thinking, and perceptual disturbances. Unlike dementia which develops gradually, delirium has an acute onset and fluctuating course with clouded consciousness.

Multiple choice

Which disorder(s) among the following is trailed to ECT?

  1. Post partum depression

  2. Catatonia

  3. Involutional melancholia

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

ECT is an established treatment for multiple severe psychiatric conditions including postpartum depression, catatonia, and involutional melancholia (severe depression in older adults). All three conditions are recognized indications for ECT.