DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.Sc. (Psychology) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017.
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2005 onwards)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions of the following.
1. Mention the classification of mental retardation.
2. Write the effects of alcohol abuse.
3. Mention the various types of psychoactive drugs.
4. List out the major causes for abnormality.
5. Highlight the clinical picture of hysterical neurosis.
6. Outline the types of schizophrenia.
7. How are psychoses classified in psychological literature?
8. Identify the psycho-socio and socio-cultural factors of
abnormal behaviours.
Sub. Code
23
DE-189
2
Sp 2
PART B — 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions of the following.
9. What do you understand by psychosomatic disorders?
Discuss the causes of psychosomatic disorders.
10. Explain the organic causes of mental retardation.
11. Examine the heredity and neuro physiological factors
associated with psychosis.
12. Explain the disorders of memory.
13. Explain the degrees of mental-retardation.
14. What is amnesia? Write about the different types of
amnesia.
15. Discuss the dynamic personality theories.