NUR 400 - Quiz 2 questions and
answers (100% accuracy)
Disorganized symptoms - answer Symptoms of schizophrenia that make it
difficult for the person to understand and respond to the ordinary sights
and sounds of daily living. These include confused speech and thinking
and disorganized behavior
Delusions - answer Erroneous fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed
by reasonable argument. They usually involve a misinterpretation of
experience and are unchanged by reasonable arguments
Hallucinations - answer Perceptual experiences that occur in the absence
of actual external sensory stimuli and may be auditory, visual, tactile,
gustatory, or olfactory
Negative symptoms - answer A lessening or loss of normal functions, such
as restriction or flattening in the range of intensity of emotion; reduced
fluency and productivity of thought and speech; withdrawal and inability
to initiate and persist in goal-directed activity; and inability to experience
pleasure
Positive symptoms - answer An excess or distortion of normal functions,
including delusions and hallucinations
Psychosis - answer a state in which a person experiences hallucinations,
delusions or disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior
-key diagnostic factor in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Affective lability - answer Abrupt, dramatic, unprovoked changes in the
types of emotions expressed
Aggression - answer Overt behavior intended to hurt, belittle, take
revenge, or achieve domination and control; can be verbal or physical.
,Behaviors or attitudes that reflect rage, hostility, and the potential for
physical or verbal destructiveness; usually occurs if the person believes
someone is going to do him or her harm
Agitation - answer Inability to sit still or attend to others accompanied by
heightened emotions and tension
Agranulocytosis - answer Dangerously low level of circulating neutrophils
Akathisia - answer An extrapyramidal side effect characterized by the
inability to sit still or restlessness; more common in middle-aged patients.
Sometimes misdiagnosed as agitation or an increase in psychotic
symptoms
Ambivalence - answer Presence and expression of two opposing feelings,
leading to inaction
Apathy - answer Reactions to stimuli that are decreased along with a
diminished interest and desire
Autistic thinking - answer Thinking restricted to the literal and immediate
so that the individual has private rules of logic and reasoning that make
no sense to others
Catatonic excitement - answer Hyperactivity characterized by purposeless
activity and abnormal movements like grimacing and posturing
Circumstantiality - answer Extremely detailed and lengthy discourse about
a topic
Clang association - answer Repetition of word phrases that are similar in
sound but in no other way, for example, "right, light, sight, might"
Concrete thinking - answer Lack of abstraction in thinking in which people
are unable to understand punch lines, metaphors, and analogies
, Confused speech and thinking - answer Symptoms of schizophrenia that
render the patient unable to respond accurately to the ordinary signs and
sounds of daily living
Diminished emotional expression - answer One of the core negative
symptoms of schizophrenia
Echolalia - answer Repetition of another's words that is parrot-like and
inappropriate
Echopraxia - answer Involuntary imitation of another person's movements
and gestures
Fight of ideas - answer Repeated and rapid changes in the topic of
conversation, generally after just one sentence or phrase
Hypervigilance - answer Sustained attention to external stimuli as if
expecting something important or frightening to happen
Hypofrontality - answer Reduced cerebral blood flow and glucose
metabolism in the prefrontal cortex
Illusions - answer Disorganized perceptions that create an oversensitivity
to colors, shapes, and background activities, which occur when the person
misperceives or exaggerates stimuli in the external environment
Loose associations - answer Absence of the normal connectedness of
thoughts and ideas; sudden shifts without apparent relationship to
preceding topic
Metonymic speech - answer Use of words with similar meanings
interchangeably
answers (100% accuracy)
Disorganized symptoms - answer Symptoms of schizophrenia that make it
difficult for the person to understand and respond to the ordinary sights
and sounds of daily living. These include confused speech and thinking
and disorganized behavior
Delusions - answer Erroneous fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed
by reasonable argument. They usually involve a misinterpretation of
experience and are unchanged by reasonable arguments
Hallucinations - answer Perceptual experiences that occur in the absence
of actual external sensory stimuli and may be auditory, visual, tactile,
gustatory, or olfactory
Negative symptoms - answer A lessening or loss of normal functions, such
as restriction or flattening in the range of intensity of emotion; reduced
fluency and productivity of thought and speech; withdrawal and inability
to initiate and persist in goal-directed activity; and inability to experience
pleasure
Positive symptoms - answer An excess or distortion of normal functions,
including delusions and hallucinations
Psychosis - answer a state in which a person experiences hallucinations,
delusions or disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior
-key diagnostic factor in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Affective lability - answer Abrupt, dramatic, unprovoked changes in the
types of emotions expressed
Aggression - answer Overt behavior intended to hurt, belittle, take
revenge, or achieve domination and control; can be verbal or physical.
,Behaviors or attitudes that reflect rage, hostility, and the potential for
physical or verbal destructiveness; usually occurs if the person believes
someone is going to do him or her harm
Agitation - answer Inability to sit still or attend to others accompanied by
heightened emotions and tension
Agranulocytosis - answer Dangerously low level of circulating neutrophils
Akathisia - answer An extrapyramidal side effect characterized by the
inability to sit still or restlessness; more common in middle-aged patients.
Sometimes misdiagnosed as agitation or an increase in psychotic
symptoms
Ambivalence - answer Presence and expression of two opposing feelings,
leading to inaction
Apathy - answer Reactions to stimuli that are decreased along with a
diminished interest and desire
Autistic thinking - answer Thinking restricted to the literal and immediate
so that the individual has private rules of logic and reasoning that make
no sense to others
Catatonic excitement - answer Hyperactivity characterized by purposeless
activity and abnormal movements like grimacing and posturing
Circumstantiality - answer Extremely detailed and lengthy discourse about
a topic
Clang association - answer Repetition of word phrases that are similar in
sound but in no other way, for example, "right, light, sight, might"
Concrete thinking - answer Lack of abstraction in thinking in which people
are unable to understand punch lines, metaphors, and analogies
, Confused speech and thinking - answer Symptoms of schizophrenia that
render the patient unable to respond accurately to the ordinary signs and
sounds of daily living
Diminished emotional expression - answer One of the core negative
symptoms of schizophrenia
Echolalia - answer Repetition of another's words that is parrot-like and
inappropriate
Echopraxia - answer Involuntary imitation of another person's movements
and gestures
Fight of ideas - answer Repeated and rapid changes in the topic of
conversation, generally after just one sentence or phrase
Hypervigilance - answer Sustained attention to external stimuli as if
expecting something important or frightening to happen
Hypofrontality - answer Reduced cerebral blood flow and glucose
metabolism in the prefrontal cortex
Illusions - answer Disorganized perceptions that create an oversensitivity
to colors, shapes, and background activities, which occur when the person
misperceives or exaggerates stimuli in the external environment
Loose associations - answer Absence of the normal connectedness of
thoughts and ideas; sudden shifts without apparent relationship to
preceding topic
Metonymic speech - answer Use of words with similar meanings
interchangeably
