MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

1. The term used to explain a liability to outbursts or as a state of poor control over aggressive
impulses directed towards others, more frequently to those nearest and dearest:
a. Anxiety b. Irritability
c. Assertiveness d. Homicide

2. Subjective feeling of motor restlessness manifested by a compelling need to be in constant

movement is termed as:
a. Akathisia b. Akinesia
c. Agraphia d. Agnosia

3. Inability to perform a voluntary purposeful motor activity is termed as:

a. Apraxia b. Alogia
c. Aphasia d. Anhedonia

4. 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

5. The response that was appropriate to a first stimulus being given inappropriately to a
second different stimulus is termed as:
a. Conditioning b. Confabulation
c. Circumstantiality d. Perseveration

6. What is the term used to explain the phenomenon seen in the following context?
Examiner: “What is the color of grass?”
Patient: “White”
Examiner: “What is the color of snow?”
Patient: “Green”
a. Transitory thinking b. Ganser syndrome
c. Drivelling thinking d. Neologisms

7. A kind of aphasia characterized by difficulty in giving the correct name of an object is :

a. Nominal aphasia b. Amnestic aphasia
c. Sensory aphasia d. Receptive aphasia

8. Inability or difficulty in describing or being aware of one’s emotions or moods is termed

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as:
a. Apraxia b. Alexithymia
b. Agnosia d. Anomia

9. Absence of feeling is
a. Apathy b. Anhedonia
c. Euphoria d. Neuroticism

10. Haptic hallucination is:

a. Hallucination of touch b. Hallucination of smell
c. Hallucination of taste d. Hallucination of sound

Answer key:

1 b. Irritability
2. a. Akathisia
3. a. Apraxia
4. b. Echolalia
5. d. Perseveration
6.b. Ganser syndrome
7. a. Nominal aphasia
8.b. Alexithymia
9. b. Anhedonia
10. a. Hallucination of touch

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