Psychiatric Assessment and Interview — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What mental apparatus is the executive part of the mind that maintains the balance between id and superego?_____

Answer: Ego (reality principle)

Flashcard 2: The _____ part of the brain is characterised by illogical and primitive thoughts called primary process thinking

Answer: unconscious

Flashcard 3: What mental apparatus establishes and maintains a moral conscience in an individual?_____

Answer: Superego (idealism principle)

Flashcard 4: Intimacy vs Isolation is the major psychosocial conflict seen in stage _____ of psychosocial development

Answer: 6

Flashcard 5: _____ - a hypothetical family in which children receive conflicting parental messages about their behaviour, attitudes, and feelings.

Answer: Double bind

Flashcard 6: Dreams may manifest themselves through _____ which is a process by which the ego organizes illogical, bizarre and absurd images into a more coherent form in dreams

Answer: secondary elaboration

Flashcard 7: Psychodynamic theory of development was given by _____

Answer: Sigmund Freud

Flashcard 8: The hierarchy of needs was described by _____.

Answer: Abraham Maslow

Flashcard 9: lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorder in india is _____%

Answer: 13.7

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Flashcard 10: minor mental illness is now classified as _____

Answer: neurosis

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