General Awareness

Mental Health and Disorders

3,443 Questions

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

What phobia involves an abnormal fear of spiders?

  1. Nomophobia

  2. Arachnophobia

  3. Ecophobia

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

Arachnophobia is the specific phobia of spiders and other arachnids. Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone, and acarophobia is the fear of itching or mites.

Multiple choice

Which one of these is not a freedom of animals?

  1. Allowed express normal patterns of behaviour

  2. Free from fear and distress

  3. Can be exposed to stress and diseases
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Five Freedoms of animal welfare state that animals should be free from pain, injury, and disease, as well as free from fear and distress. Being exposed to stress and diseases directly violates these welfare standards.

Multiple choice

Some examples of stressors, or sources of stress, include

  1. social

  2. family

  3. emotional

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

Stressors can originate from various aspects of life, including social interactions, family dynamics, and internal emotional states. Therefore, all these categories are valid sources of stress.

Multiple choice

What is empty nest syndrome?

  1. When they retire and feel useless to society

  2. When parents feel sad when their children leave home

  3. When people are made redundant

  4. A dramatic period of self-doubt
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Empty nest syndrome is a psychological condition where parents experience feelings of sadness or loneliness after their children leave home.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not intimidation?

  1. Fear of harm or injury

  2. Threatening behaviour

  3. Fear of loss of job

  4. Encouragement from a colleague
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Intimidation involves creating fear or using threats to coerce someone. Encouragement from a colleague is a positive, supportive action and is the opposite of intimidation.

Multiple choice innate and learned behaviour option a: neurobiology and behaviour biology

People take drugs to

  1. Mask the emotions

  2. Forget about the problems for a time being

  3. Face their enemy

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • People use drugs for many reasons: they want to feel good, stop feeling bad by masking the emotions, or perform better in school or at work, or forget about problems for a time being, or they are curious because others are doing it and they want to fit in. The last reason is very common among teens. 
  • Hence, People take drugs to Mask the emotions and Forget about the problems for a time being.
  •  So, the correct answer is 'Both A and B'.
Multiple choice

What is the main cause of workplace stress?

  1. Problems with co-workers

  2. Lack of facilities

  3. Poor management

  4. Lack of training
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

While many factors contribute to stress, poor management is widely cited as a primary organizational cause of workplace stress. Other options are contributing factors but are generally secondary to management style.

Multiple choice

Which of the following groups of people may be affected by mental illness ?

  1. People with stressful jobs

  2. Poor and uneducated people

  3. People who have hereditary connection with mental illness

  4. Mental health can effect anyone regardless of anything.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Mental illness is a health condition that can affect anyone, regardless of their background, status, or circumstances. The other options are too restrictive.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an emergency mental health problem?

  1. Risk for suicide

  2. Anxiety

  3. Pain

  4. Nutrition deficit
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A risk for suicide is considered a psychiatric emergency requiring immediate intervention. While anxiety and pain are serious, they are not typically classified as immediate mental health emergencies in the same way as active suicidal ideation.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of how language can influence mental health?

  1. A person who uses negative self-talk may be more likely to experience depression.

  2. A person who is constantly exposed to negative messages in the media may be more likely to experience anxiety.

  3. A person who has difficulty expressing their emotions in words may be more likely to experience mental health problems.

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

All of the above options are examples of how language can influence mental health.

Multiple choice

What is the term for the psychological state that results from being in a crowded or densely populated environment?

  1. Agoraphobia

  2. Claustrophobia

  3. Crowding

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

Crowding is the term for the psychological state that results from being in a crowded or densely populated environment.