1. Negativism, waxy flexibility, mutism, posturing and stupor are characteristics of:

A. Paranoid schizophrenia

B. Disorganized schizophrenia

C. Catatonic schizophrenia

D.  Undifferentiated schizophrenia

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2. Haptic hallucination is:Copyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz

A. Hallucination of touch

B. Hallucination of smell

C. Hallucination of taste

D. Hallucination of sound

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3. A dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia, during which a person actually flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern is termed as:

A. neurasthenia

B. dissociative amnesia

C. dissociative fugue

D. trance

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4. An unconscious defense mechanism in which unacceptable mental contents are banished or kept out of consciousness is:

A. sublimation

B. suppression

C. rationalization

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5. Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another; tends to be repetitive and persistent is termed as:

A. echopraxia

B. echolalia

C. verbigeration

D. mannerism

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6. An elimination disorder in which the patient suffers from incontinence of urine during sleep is termed as:

A. enuresis

B. encopresis

C. dyspareunia

D. pseudocyesis

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7. folie a à deux is also called as:

A. shared psychotic disorder

B. formal thought disorder

C. labile affect

D. la belle indifference -

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8. Feigning disease to achieve a specific goal, for example, to avoid an unpleasant responsibility is called:

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B. factitious disorder

C. amnestic disorder.

D. conversion disorder

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9. Craving and eating of nonfood substances, such as paint and clay observed in some mental illness is termed as:

A. binge eating

B. verbigeration

C. polyphagia

D. pica

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10. Symptoms such as sleep disturbance (especially early morning awakening), decreased appetite, constipation, weight loss, and loss of sexual response usually observed in depression are collectively called as:

A. negative signs

B. vegetative signs

C. Positive signs

D. cardinal signs

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11. A kind of delusion in which the patient believes one's thoughts are being removed from one's mind by other people or forces is termed as:

A. delusional perception

B. thought broadcasting

C. thought blocking

D. thought withdrawal

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12. A state of uncritical compliance with influence or of uncritical acceptance of an idea, belief, or attitude; commonly observed among persons with hysterical traits is called as:

A. sublimation

B. mannerism

C. suggestibility

D. paranoid ideation

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13. Unconscious defense mechanism in which a person undergoes a partial or total return to earlier patterns of adaptation is:

A. sublimation

B. displacement

C. regression

D. repression

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14. Hallucination with content that is consistent with either a depressed or manic mood is: Copyright@ www.nursingplanet.com/Quiz

A. elementary hallucination

B. mood-congruent hallucination

C. mood-incongruent hallucination

D. partial hallucination

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15. Hallucination primarily involving taste is termed as:

A. gustatory hallucination

B. tactile hallucination

C. haptic hallucination

D. olfactory hallucination

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