Mental Health Nursing MCQ Series: 1

Multiple Choice Questions

 

Instruction: Choose the single best answer out of the given alternatives

 

1. Senseless repetition of the word after the cessation of stimulus is known as
a) Perseveration
b) Verbigeration
c) Echolalia
d) Paralalia

2. Presence of contradictory feelings for the same thing is called
a) Apathy
b) Anhedonia
c) Ambivalence
d) Autisms

3. While interviewing a patient a nurse noticed that patient is unable to form new thoughts this symptom is known as
a) Thought block
b) Thought withdrawal
c) Thought insertion
d) Thought derailment

4. Judgement is most likely to be impaired in which of the following disease
a) Conversion Disorder
b) Schizophrenia
c) OCD
d) GAD

5. Inability to face difficulty in naming everyday objects is known as
a) Prosopagnosia
b) Anomia
c) Agnosia
d) Aphosonomia

6. Which of the following describes clang association?
a) Individuals only communicate with words that rhyme
b) Answers to questions may not be relevant
c) Individuals communicate without completing their sentences.
d) Speech may be neither structured nor comprehensible

7. Affective flattening in Schizophrenia is characterized by which of the following

a) Lack of speech
b) Maintained eye contact
c) Variation in voice tone
d) Expressionless and unresponsive facial appearance

8. A patient perceives that his feet are webbed and there is something going on with his body. The term that best describes this condition is
a) Dejavu
b) Depersonalization
c) Derealization
d) Jamais vu

9. During a psychiatric interview patient is substituting original words with meaningless words for example warrot for carrot. The term used to explain the condition is:
a) Coprolalia
b) Echolalia
c) Glossolalia
d) Paralalia

10. Tactile hallucinations where patient complaints that spider is crawling under his skin is called
a) Kinesthetic
b) Functional
c) Formication
d) Extracampine

11. The credit for identifying Dementia Praecox goes to
a) Freud
b) Bleuler
c) Kraepelin
d) Schneider

12. Type of speech derailment where the patient never returns back to the main topic of conversation is called
a) Circumstantiality
b) Illogicality
c) Thought Block
d) Tangentiality

13. A patient is hypervigilant and strongly believe that all his family members are plotting against him is suffering from delusion of
a) Jealousy
b) Persecution
c) Erotomania
d) Grandiosity

14. A symptom of catatonia where the patient opposes the examiner’s attempt to move his body parts is known as
a) Negativism
b) Waxy Flexibility
c) Automatic Obedience
d) Stupor

15. Persistent use of dirty and obscene words is called
a) Glossolalia
b) Paralalia
c) Echolalia
d) Coprolalia

 

 

Key:

1. a
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. a
7. d
8. b
9. d
10. c
11. c
12. d
13. b
14. a
15. d