Psych NP Review Questions And
Correct Answers
What is hypervigilance? - ✔✔✔✔excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
What is selective inattention? - ✔✔✔✔Blocking out only things that generate anxiety
What is distractibility? - ✔✔✔✔Inability to concentrate attention
What is trance? - ✔✔✔✔focused attention and altered consciousness
Name 4 disturbances in perception - ✔✔✔✔Hallucinations, hypnagogic experiences, depersonalization,
and derealization
Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - ✔✔✔✔anorexia, hyperplasia, insomnia,
hypersomnia, durinal variation
simultagnosia - ✔✔✔✔Inability to comprehend more than one element of visual scene at a time
anosognosia - ✔✔✔✔Ignorance of illness
apraxias - ✔✔✔✔Inability to carry out specific tasks
astereognosis - ✔✔✔✔Inability to recognize objects by touch
adiadochokinesia - ✔✔✔✔Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
, Name four disturbances of attention - ✔✔✔✔Hypervigliance, selective inattention, distractibility, trance
What is hyperphagia? - ✔✔✔✔increased appiette or intake of food
What is hypersomnia? - ✔✔✔✔excessive sleeping
What is durinal variation? - ✔✔✔✔mood regularly worse in the morning, immediately after waking,
then improves as the day goes on
The loss of normal speech melody is? - ✔✔✔✔Dysprosody
The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - ✔✔✔✔Sterotypy
The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - ✔✔✔✔Echopraxia
Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states is? -
✔✔✔✔Cataplexy
Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - ✔✔✔✔Mannerisms
Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - ✔✔✔✔Akathisia
Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
✔✔✔✔Tangentality
Sundowning is usually associated with? - ✔✔✔✔Being over medicated
What are neologisms? - ✔✔✔✔new words created by patients
Correct Answers
What is hypervigilance? - ✔✔✔✔excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
What is selective inattention? - ✔✔✔✔Blocking out only things that generate anxiety
What is distractibility? - ✔✔✔✔Inability to concentrate attention
What is trance? - ✔✔✔✔focused attention and altered consciousness
Name 4 disturbances in perception - ✔✔✔✔Hallucinations, hypnagogic experiences, depersonalization,
and derealization
Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - ✔✔✔✔anorexia, hyperplasia, insomnia,
hypersomnia, durinal variation
simultagnosia - ✔✔✔✔Inability to comprehend more than one element of visual scene at a time
anosognosia - ✔✔✔✔Ignorance of illness
apraxias - ✔✔✔✔Inability to carry out specific tasks
astereognosis - ✔✔✔✔Inability to recognize objects by touch
adiadochokinesia - ✔✔✔✔Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
, Name four disturbances of attention - ✔✔✔✔Hypervigliance, selective inattention, distractibility, trance
What is hyperphagia? - ✔✔✔✔increased appiette or intake of food
What is hypersomnia? - ✔✔✔✔excessive sleeping
What is durinal variation? - ✔✔✔✔mood regularly worse in the morning, immediately after waking,
then improves as the day goes on
The loss of normal speech melody is? - ✔✔✔✔Dysprosody
The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - ✔✔✔✔Sterotypy
The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - ✔✔✔✔Echopraxia
Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states is? -
✔✔✔✔Cataplexy
Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - ✔✔✔✔Mannerisms
Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - ✔✔✔✔Akathisia
Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
✔✔✔✔Tangentality
Sundowning is usually associated with? - ✔✔✔✔Being over medicated
What are neologisms? - ✔✔✔✔new words created by patients
