Behavioral Sciences & Psychology

1. Regarding code of ethics

"Physical therapists shall enhance their expertise through the lifelong acquisition and refinement of knowledge, skills, abilities, and professional behaviors"

• a) Physical therapists shall educate members of the public.

• b) Physical therapists shall promote practice environments that support autonomous and accountable professional judgments.

• c) Physical therapists shall provide truthful, accurate, and relevant information and shall not make misleading representations

• d) Physical therapists shall evaluate the strength of evidence and applicability of content presented during professional development

2. Regarding hypothetical-deductive reasoning

• a) It is a type of inductive reasoning.

• b) It is general to specific approach.

• c) It is specific to general approach.

• d) It develops in sensorimotor stage.

3. “A 2 years old infant has lost a massive amount of blood in a road accident and again the best chance of saving the child’s life is an urgent blood transfusion and operative intervention to arrest the bleeding. Both the child’s parents refuse to give permission for a blood transfusion, requesting instead that the best available non-blood products are used to restore volume and that surgery is carried out without blood. They understand that this will be a far more dangerous course of action than surgery plus blood transfusion but persist in refusing permission for a blood transfusion for their child. The surgeon in charge tells them there is no time to argue about the issue, and he is cross matching blood for transfusion and will administer the blood against the parent’s instructions in order to save the child’s life.”

Surgeon’s decision demonstrates which ethical principle?

• a) Justice

• b) Autonomy

• c) Veracity

• d) Paternalism

4. Regarding Allostatic load

• a) It quantifies stress-induced biological risk.

• b) It is the resultant of chronic stress.

• c) It cause wear and tear on the body

• d) All of above

5. Core values pertaining to the principle,

"Physical therapists shall respect the inherent dignity and rights of all individuals";

• a) Compassion and caring

• b) Excellence

• c) Altruism

• d) Accountability

6. Regarding common defense mechanism

• a) Projection is related to individual attributes, unwanted thoughts, feelings and motives onto another person.

• b) Rationalization involves a cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or an impulse less threatening.

• c) Regression is an unconscious defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.

• d) Denial is when ego reverts to an earlier stage of development usually in response to stressful situations.

7. Regarding principle,

"Physical therapists shall fulfill their legal and professional obligations"

• a) Physical therapists shall comply with applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

• b) Physical therapists involved in research shall abide by accepted standards governing protection of research participants.

• c) Physical therapists shall not exploit persons over whom they have supervisory.

• d) Physical therapists who have knowledge that a colleague is unable to perform their professional responsibilities with reasonable skill and safety shall report this information to the appropriate authority.

8. Regarding Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

• a) Sensorimotor stage: Birth- 2years

• b) Concrete operational stage: 2-7 years

• c) Pre-operational stage: 7-11 years

• d) Formal operational stage: 11 years onwards

9. Regarding moral reasoning

• a) Piaget proposed that moral reasoning develops in three stages.

• b) First stage is based on rigid obedience to authority.

• c) Second stage is characterized by increasing flexibility.

• d) In third stage children may become capable of formal reasoning.

10. Which is NOT true,

• a) Virtue: an individual's accepted standards of right or wrong

• b) Value: qualities that are considered to be good or desirable in a person.

• c) Principle: rules or beliefs governing one’s behavior.

• d) Society's standards of right and wrong.