Q. Obsessive-compulsive behavior, panic, and phobias are formally classified as __________ disorders.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
anxiety
Abnormal Psychology MCQs and Notes
Q. Behavioral problems in which the person exhibits symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury, but for which there is no identifiable cause, are called
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
somatoform disorders.
Q. Hearing voices that are not really there would be called a(n)
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
hallucination.
Q. The antisocial personality
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
tends to be selfish and lacking remorse.
Q. Which of the following is classified as a mood disorder?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
bipolar disorder
Q. Psychological dependence on mood- or behavior-altering drugs is known as
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
a substance related disorder.
Q. The extreme reaction known as fugue refers to
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
physical flight to escape conflict.
Q. A psychosis arising from an advanced stage of syphilis, in which the disease attacks brain cells, is called
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
general paresis.
Q. __________ schizophrenia usually involves delusions of persecution and grandeur.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Paranoid
Q. Which of the following is characteristic of a dissociative disorder?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
amnesia