NUR 354 - Exam 2 Questions with
Correct Answers
types of psychotic disorders - Answer-schizophrenia, schizoaffective, schizophreniform,
delusional, substance-induced psychotic disorder, depression/bipolar with psychotic
features
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia - Answer-(e.g., hallucinations, delusions,
associative looseness) are easier to recognize and respond the best to antipsychotic
drug therapy.
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia - Answer-(e.g., reduction in affect, social
withdrawal and dysfunction, lack of motivation, inability to experience pleasure) respond
less well to antipsychotic therapy and can be more debilitating.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - Answer-extra, things that aren't supposed to be
there
schizophrenia: positive symptoms include - Answer-hallucinations, delusions,
disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, movement disorders, disordered thoughts
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - hallucinations - Answer-auditory, visual, olfactory,
gustatory, tactile
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - command hallucination - Answer-directs person to
take action (jump out window, hit nurse)
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - olfactory, tactile, gustatory hallucinations are -
Answer-unusual in mental illness, other causes should be investigated
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - hallucinations, other alterations in perception -
Answer-illusions, depersonalization, derealization
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - hallucinations, other alterations in perception -
illusions - Answer-misinterpretation/perception of real experience
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - hallucinations, other alterations in perception -
depersonalization - Answer-feeling of being unreal, lost identity
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - hallucinations, other alterations in perception -
derealization - Answer-feeling that environment has changed
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - delusions - Answer-persecutory, referential,
grandiose, erotomanic, nihilistic, somatic, control
,schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disorganized speech - Answer-might speak
incoherently, respond to questions with unrelated answers, say illogical things, or shift
topics frequently
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disorganized behavior - Answer-Can include odd,
bizarre behavior such as smiling, laughing, or talking to oneself or being
preoccupied/responding to internal stimuli. It can include purposeless, ambivalent
behavior or movements.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (catatonia) - Answer-
increase/decrease in rate and amount of movement
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (catalepsy) - Answer-muscle
rigidity
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (waxy flexibility) - Answer-
maintaining a given posture inappropriately, usually seen in catatonia
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (motor retardation) - Answer-
pronounced slowing of movement
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (motor agitation) - Answer-
excited behavior such as running or pacing rapidly
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (stereotyped behaviors) -
Answer-repetitive behaviors that do not serve logical purpose
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (echopraxia) - Answer-
mimicking of movements of another
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (negativism) - Answer-
tendency to resist/oppose request/wishes of others
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (impaired impulse control) -
Answer-reduced ability to resist one's impulses
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (gesturing or posturing) -
Answer-assuming unusual and illogical expressions (often grimaces) or positions
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - movement disorders (boundary impairment) -
Answer-impaired ability to sense where one's body or influence ends and another's
begins
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts - Answer-Religiosity
Magical thinking
,Paranoia
Circumstantiality
Tangentiality
Cognitive retardation
Alogia, or poverty of speech
Flight of ideas
Thought blocking
Thought insertion
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (religiosity) - Answer-such as
the belief they are divine beings or prophets, that a god is talking to them, they are
possessed by demons, etc.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (magical thinking) - Answer-
believing that thoughts or actions affect others (because I was mad at him, he fell down)
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (paranoia) - Answer-irrational
fear, ranging from mild (wary, guarded) to profound (believing irrationally that another
person intends to kill you), fear may result in defensive actions, harming another person
before that person can harm the patient
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (circumstantiality) - Answer-
indirect speech in which the individual digresses to give unnecessary and often
irrelevant details before arriving at the main point.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (tangentiality) - Answer-thought
disturbance that is marked by oblique speech in which the person constantly digresses
to irrelevant topics and fails to arrive at the main point.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (cognitive retardation) -
Answer-when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or
making decisions that affect their everyday life.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (alogia, poverty of speech) -
Answer-disruption in the thought process that leads to a lack of speech and issues with
verbal fluency.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (flight of ideas) - Answer-when
someone talks quickly and erratically, jumping rapidly between ideas and thoughts.
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (thought blocking) - Answer-
person stops speaking suddenly and without explanation in the middle of a sentence.
(possibly by hallucinations)
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - disordered thoughts (thought insertion) - Answer-
involves somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's.
, schizophrenia: negative symptoms - Answer-flat affect, apathy, anhedonia, alogia,
avolition, asociality, hopelessness
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - flat affect - Answer-affective blunting - immobile,
blank facial expressions
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - blunted affect - Answer-reduced, minimal
emotional response
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - constricted affect - Answer-reduced in
range/intensity
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - inappropriate affect - Answer-incongruent with
actual emotional state/situation
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - bizarre affect - Answer-odd, illogical, inappropriate,
unfounded
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - anhedonia - Answer-inability to experience
pleasure (includes grimacing)
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - apathy - Answer-impaired attention
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - asociality - Answer-decreased desire for or comfort
during social interaction
schizophrenia: negative symptoms - avolition - Answer-difficulty with ADLs
schizophrenia: cognitive symptoms - decrease in - Answer-Memory
Cognition
Abstraction
Executive function
Concept formation
Decision-making
Problem-solving
schizophrenia: mood (affective) symptoms - Answer-Depression
Suicidality
Anxiety
Inappropriate emotional responses
Mania
Irritability
Euphoria
schizophrenia: typical behaviors - deteriorated - Answer-appearance