Calicut University 2009 B.A Psychology Supplementary – IV : Abnormal - Question Paper

part – A
ans any 2 of the subsequent. every ques. carries 20 marks.
1. Enumerate the historical background of modern abnormal behaviour.
2. explain the theoretical perspectives on depression.
3. Bring out the causes of schizophrenic disorder.
4. define the treatment of personality disorder. (2×20=40 Marks)

part – B
5. ans any 6 of the subsequent. every ques. carries five marks.
a) Behaviour assessment.
b) Projective techniques
c) Stress-arrousing situations
d) Coping skills
e) Sleep disorders
f) Phobias.
g) Obsessive – compulsive disorder.
h) Symptoms of affeine intoxication. (6×5=30 Marks)

part – C
6. ans any 5 of the subsequent. every ques. carries five marks.
a) Family therapy
b) Conduct disorder
c) Substance dependence
d) Cyclothymic disorder
e) Anorexia
f) Social support.
g) Bulimia
h) ADHD. (2×5=10 Marks)

part – D
7. ans all ques.. every ques. carries one mark.
Match the subsequent :
a) Galen i) Reform movement
b) Pinel ii) Dementia praecox
c) Kraepelin iii) Dyssomnias
d) Sleep disorder iv) Defense mechanism
e) Repression v) Humors (1×5=5 Marks)
8. Write actual or false :
a) Frued described anxiety as a response to perceived danger or stress.
b) In substance abuse there are recurrent and significant adverse consequences
related to the use of substances.
c) A dysthymic disorder is a stable condition in which a depressed mood is
dominant over long periods of time even if it is interrupted by short periods
of normal mood.
d) Phobias is characterised by luck of ability to express warm emotions,
extreme perfectionism and a rigid approach to the way things "should" be
done.
e) Inhalants are volatile substances or organic solvents that can be used to
produce modifications in perception. (1×5=5 Marks)
9. select the accurate ans :
a) The inability to recall events following to a specific time, upto and including
the current
i) Localised amnesia ii) Selective amnesia
iii) Generalised amnesia iv) Continuous amnesia.
b) Expressing an unacceptable impulse by transforming it into its opposite
i) Reaction formation ii) Projection
iii) Regression iv) Identification
c) A socially useful course of action developed when more direct forms of
gratification are blocked
i) Projection ii) Sublimation
iii) Regression iv) Displacement
d) Preoccupation with the idea that 1 has or might get a serious disease and
misinterpretation of bodily symptoms
i) Conversion disorder ii) Pain disorder
iii) Somotization disorder iv) Hypochondriasis
e) Intense and incapacitating fear and embarrassment when dealing with others
characterize
i) Panic disorder ii) Specific phobias
iii) Social phobia iv) Anxiety disorder
f) Condition related to a few inequality in the chromosome pair designated
as number 21
i) Dementia ii) Down syndrome
iii) Enkephalin iv) Epilepsy
g) An abnormal arrest of development during infancy or childhood which
persists in adult life
i) Exposure ii) Fading
iii) Gyri iv) Fixation
h) Sensory perception in the absence of an external stimulus
i) Illusion
ii) Delusion
iii) Exorcism
iv) Hallucination
i) Flight from reality in which the individual may leave his or her current
environment and life situation and establish a new life style in an other location
i) Fugue state
ii) Anxiety state
iii) Amnesic state
iv) Fantancy state
j) A disorder characterised by unusual elevation in mood that is not as extreme
as that obtained in mania
i) Hyper mania
ii) Acute mania
iii) Hypomania
iv) Hyper acute mania (1×10=10 Marks)

Earning:   Approval pending.