General Awareness

Mental Health and Disorders

3,382 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
  1. Nomophobia

  2. Pogonophobia

  3. Cyberphobia

  4. Neophobia

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Nomophobia is the psychological condition of having a fear of being detached from mobile phone connectivity. It is a modern phobia associated with technology dependence.

Multiple choice
  1. Outbursts

  2. Motion Sickness

  3. Fear of Sharks

  4. Short-term memory loss

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Dory, a regal blue tang voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, famously suffers from short-term memory loss, which causes her to frequently forget names, directions, and recent events. This condition serves as both a comedic element and a key plot point throughout the film and its sequel, Finding Dory.

Multiple choice
  1. Depression

  2. Color blindness

  3. Anxiety Disorder

  4. Mood disorder

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Color blindness is a genetic vision deficiency, not a mental health disorder. Depression, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders are all psychological conditions affecting mental health.

Multiple choice
  1. giddiness around someone we like

  2. decreased appetite

  3. inability to stop thinking about another person

  4. ability to control our feelings of infatuation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Dopamine drives the obsessive, euphoric, and involuntary aspects of infatuation, making it harder, rather than easier, to control these intense feelings. It is responsible for the energy, focus, and loss of appetite associated with early love.

Multiple choice
  1. dependence on another person

  2. impulse control

  3. feelings of attachment to others

  4. overpowering feelings of love

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Serotonin levels actually drop during the early, obsessive stage of love, which can lead to compulsive thinking and dependence. Feelings of long-term attachment, however, are primarily driven by oxytocin and vasopressin, not serotonin.

Multiple choice
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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'.