PsyQuiz

Sigmund Freud’s theories..

One of the theories is called structural theory of
Freud. What is the name of his other theory ?
Topographical theory
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 Oedipus complex

Freud suggested that complex feelings occur between

the ages of three and five, during what he termed the
“phallic stage” of psychosexual development. The
resolution of these intense feelings comes when the son
identifies with the father and lets go of his strong feelings
towards the mother.

What is the female equivalent of

the Oedipus complex?
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung suggested
that such feelings were not restricted to
boys but that girls also experienced a
similar ambivalence which he termed as
the “Electra Complex”.
Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder of unknown aetiology. It
is characterized by excessive sleepiness, which is
associated with cataplexy or rapid eye movement (REM)
sleep phenomena, such as sleep paralysis or
hypnagogic experiences.

How common is cataplexy in Narcolepsy?

 Up to 20%
 Up to 50%
 Up to 70%
 None is true
70%
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Identify this man
 A famous anti-psychiatrist!
Wrote a popular book named ‘The divided
self’
Been criticized for being a traitor to the
profession for ridiculing psychiatry yet
collecting a big pay for his role as a
professor in psychiatry!
 R D Laing (1927-1989)

 Laing, R(onald) D(avid) (1927-1989),

British psychiatrist renowned for his
unorthodox theories about mental illness.
Also a psychoanalyst and existentialist
philosopher, Laing regarded schizophrenia
as a symptom of confusion rather than its
cause, and viewed insanity as a means of
coping with trauma.
Conditioning..
What is this experiment called?
 No clues!!
Operant conditioning.
 Skinner’s research on operant conditioning
led him to conclude that simply rewarding
small acts can condition complex forms of
behaviour.
Social phobia is characterized by a marked and persistent fear of social
situations or situations in which some performance is required in which
embarrassment may occur.
What is not true of social phobia?

 The lifetime prevalence of social phobia has

been found to be 3-13%.
 The onset is typically in mid-adolescent life.
 The male female prevalence is equal.
 The course is often continuous and lifelong,
although attenuation in severity in adulthood is
common.
 Answer..

 The prevalence is higher in women than men

in community samples. However, men
predominate in clinical settings.
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Identify this Nobel laureate who
suffered from schizophrenia..
A major motion picture is made on
this man.
Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, "A Beautiful
Mind," has become a New York Times Best Seller
and a popular motion picture.
 Behaviourism, a movement in psychology
that advocates the use of strict
experimental procedures to study
observable behaviour (or responses) in
relation to the environment (or stimuli).
 Who is considered as the father of
behaviorism?
 John B. Watson
 Behaviourism was first developed in the
early 20th century by the American
psychologist John B. Watson.
Identify this man
 Clues..
He was a psychiatrist and also the
president of a country!
 A psychiatrist who became the leader of
the Bosnian Serbs in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Radovan Karadžić was
president of the self-proclaimed Serb
Republic between 1992 and 1996.

 Radovan Karadžić
Meditation has been practised in Asia for
thousands of years. However,
transcendental meditation (TM) is the
most successful form to reach the West.

Who is the founder of TM?

 No clues..
 TM was introduced from India into
western society by the Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi who, in 1957, founded the Spiritual
Regeneration Movement. He claimed that
TM could develop creative intelligence,
raise consciousness, and enable fuller use
to be made of mental potential. His
crusade took root in the United States and
Europe; his most famous followers were
the Beatles.
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS MAN?
 Clues..
 He coined the term SCHIZOPHRENIA and described it’s 4
primary symptoms (4 As).

 Eugene Blueler (b. 30 April 1857 - d. 9 February 1940) The 4 As are

as follows: : the blunted Affect (diminished emotional response to
stimuli) 　 loosening of Associations (by which he meant a disordered
pattern of thought, inferring a cognitive deficit) 　 Ambivalence
(apathy) 　 Autism (a loss of awareness of external events, and a
preoccupation with the self and one's own thoughts).…
Identify this man..
Hierarchy of needs/ self
actualization..
 Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
SPOT PRIZE!!!
Identify this man..
 Clues..
 A famous depression inventory is named
after him.
 Father of CBT.

 AARON BECK ( 1921…)

 Who coined the term ‘first rank
symptoms (FRS)’ of schizophrenia?
No Clues…
The original FRSs described by Kurt Sneider (1887-1967)
are as follows:
 Voices heard arguing
 Voices heard commenting on one's actions
 Experience of influences playing on the body
 Thought withdrawal
 Thoughts are ascribed to other people who
intrude their thoughts upon the patient
 Thought diffusion (also called thought
broadcast)
 Delusional perception
Identify this man..
 A famous behaviorist..
 He wrote The Behaviour of Organisms and
Beyond Freedom and Dignity.

 BF Skinner (1904-1990) : He conducted

pioneering work on experimental psychology and
advocated behaviorism, which seeks to
understand behavior as a function of
environmental histories of reinforcement.
Identify this man..
 Clues..

 He was a famous malacologist (Mollusk

specialist)!
 He developed the field of genetic
epistemology

*Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

SPOT PRIZE!!!
Identify this person..
 Clues..
 She is best known for her book “The Ego and
the Mechanisms of Defense”
 She was very close to Freud and his basic ideas
unlike many of her contemporaries.

Anna Freud (1895-1982)

Who is this man?
 Clues..

 He divided the human psyche into

three parts, the ego, the personal
unconscious, and the collective
unconscious.
 Initially considered the crown prince of
psychoanalysis by Freud later he
became his arch enemy!

 CARL JUNG (1875 – 1961)

Identify this man..
 Clues..
 He wrote “Identity and the Life Cycle”
 He’s famous for his theory of eight stages
of life of human beings.

 Erik Erikson (1902-1995)

Identify this man
 Clues..

 Russian physiologist and founder of Conditioned

Reflexes
 The ‘classical conditioning’ is based on his
experiments

 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 –

February 27, 1936)
Identify this man
 Clues..
 A famous psychiatrist, he was arrested
when young and taken to a Nazi
concentration camp but he survived it.
 He was the founder of logo-therapy and
famous for his book titled “Man’s search
for meaning”.

 VIKTOR FRANKL (1905-1997)

SPOT PRIZE!!!
 These 3 men founded the world’s
first group psychiatric practice.

 A. Who are they?

 B. When was it founded?
 C. Where was it founded?
 Answer
 A. Drs. Karl, Will, and C.F. Menninger.
 The Menninger Clinic was founded
– B. in 1925
– C. in Topeka, Kansas.