Choose the option that you think is most reasonable. There is one option that is most correct for each question.
1. What is a psychiatric diagnosis primarily?
A) An established biological fact
B) A description of symptoms at a specific time
C) A measure of how seriously ill a person is
D) Evidence that something is not working within the person
2. Can a person feel mentally ill without meeting the criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis?
A) No
Yes
C) Sometimes, if the person is young
D) Only if the person has recently experienced something difficult
3. What is a reasonable way to look at diagnoses?
A) They are temporary truths about a person's identity
B) They are there to sort people into different value classes.
C) They are tools for describing patterns of symptoms
D) They often last a lifetime
4. What does it mean that mental health can vary over time?
A) That diagnoses are actually unnecessary
B) That all people sooner or later get a serious illness
C) That mental illness is a trend in society
D) That how we feel is influenced by life situation and context
5. What is anxiety basically?
A) A sign of weak personality
B) A physical and psychological alarm reaction
C) Only fear of something concrete
D) Same as fear
6. What usually distinguishes panic attacks from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
A) They are acute and intense, GAD is more long-term worry
B) Panic attacks are always life-threatening
C) GAD is always linked to trauma
D) There is no real difference
7. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is often characterized by:
A) A strong need for control over other people
B) That the person lacks empathy from birth
C) That the person wants to be perfect and feels that this is not possible
D) Intrusive thoughts and repetitive actions to reduce anxiety
8. Depression can in practice manifest itself as:
A) Only clear sadness
B) Irritability, fatigue or decreased motivation
C) Increased energy, hyperactivity
D) Crying only in social situations
9. Asking someone about suicidal thoughts:
A) Increases the risk that the person will carry it out
B) Is dangerous if you are not a doctor
C) Can reduce risk by opening up for conversation
D) Should be avoided until you know how to conduct such a conversation
10. What does psychosis mean in general?
A) That the person has an increased tendency to be violent
B) That the person lacks genuine feelings
C) That the person is manipulative without realizing it
D) That the perception of reality is affected
11. Neuropsychiatric disabilities (e.g. ADHD, autism) involve:
A) Poor upbringing combined with an impatient temperament
B) That nervous systems function differently in a psychological sense
C) That the person lacks understanding of goal images
D) That the problems usually disappear in adulthood
12. What is executive function?
A) An emotional quality is needed to reason
B) A form of hallucination, although milder
C) Ability to plan, organize and complete actions
D) A personality trait that means getting stuck in thought loops
13. Bipolar disorder typically involves:
A) Rapid mood swings every day, sometimes hour by hour
B) Alternating between depression and periods of elevated mood
C) Only strong anxiety, especially in the evening
D) That the person is always socially unstable and ends up in conflicts
14. What does the stress–vulnerability model show in its simplest form?
A) That stress alone causes mental illness in certain situations
B) That everyone has the same level of vulnerability to the same kind of mental illness
C) That the combination of vulnerability and burden affects the risk of symptoms
D) That everyone can actually handle the same level of stress
15. Which statement about mental illness is most plausible?
A) It is always clearly visible from the outside, but may be imperceptible from the inside
B) It always depends on a single main cause
C) It can be explained by several different factors
D) It can often be resolved over time through sheer willpower