NUR 634 Test 1 || Already Graded A+.
Attention correct answers Ability to focus or concentrate
Obtunded correct answers You must shake a patient to get a response
stuporous correct answers the patient is unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal rub)
Coma correct answers the patient is completely unarousable
Memory correct answers The process of recording and retrieving information
Perceptions correct answers Awareness of the objects in the environment to the five senses and
their interrelationships
Thought process correct answers The logic, coherence, and relevance of a patients thoughts as
they lead to thoughts and goals
Insight correct answers Awareness that thought, symptoms, or behaviors are normal or abnormal
Judgement correct answers Process of comparing and evaluating different possible courses of
action
Agnosia correct answers the inability to recognize familiar objects.
Apraxia correct answers Inability to perform purposeful movement
, Circumlocutions correct answers Words or phrases are substituted for the word a person cannot
remember; the thing you block out writing-eraser
Paraphasias correct answers Words are malformed; I write with a den- pen
receptive aphasia correct answers inability to understand spoken or written words; wernicki's
expressive aphasia correct answers trouble communicating thoughts through speech or writing;
broca's
incoherence correct answers speech that is incomprehensible because it is illogical
Blocking correct answers sudden interruption of speech, before the completion of an idea, occurs
in normal people
Confabulation correct answers fabrication of facts to hide memory impairment
Perseveration correct answers Persistent repetition of words or ideas
Echolalia correct answers repetition of the words or phrases of others
Clanging correct answers choosing a word on the basis of sound rather than meaning
Circumstantiality correct answers Speech characterized by indirection and delay due to the
patients excessive use of details that have no connection to the point
derailment correct answers speech in which a person shifts topics with no apparent relation
between the topics
Attention correct answers Ability to focus or concentrate
Obtunded correct answers You must shake a patient to get a response
stuporous correct answers the patient is unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal rub)
Coma correct answers the patient is completely unarousable
Memory correct answers The process of recording and retrieving information
Perceptions correct answers Awareness of the objects in the environment to the five senses and
their interrelationships
Thought process correct answers The logic, coherence, and relevance of a patients thoughts as
they lead to thoughts and goals
Insight correct answers Awareness that thought, symptoms, or behaviors are normal or abnormal
Judgement correct answers Process of comparing and evaluating different possible courses of
action
Agnosia correct answers the inability to recognize familiar objects.
Apraxia correct answers Inability to perform purposeful movement
, Circumlocutions correct answers Words or phrases are substituted for the word a person cannot
remember; the thing you block out writing-eraser
Paraphasias correct answers Words are malformed; I write with a den- pen
receptive aphasia correct answers inability to understand spoken or written words; wernicki's
expressive aphasia correct answers trouble communicating thoughts through speech or writing;
broca's
incoherence correct answers speech that is incomprehensible because it is illogical
Blocking correct answers sudden interruption of speech, before the completion of an idea, occurs
in normal people
Confabulation correct answers fabrication of facts to hide memory impairment
Perseveration correct answers Persistent repetition of words or ideas
Echolalia correct answers repetition of the words or phrases of others
Clanging correct answers choosing a word on the basis of sound rather than meaning
Circumstantiality correct answers Speech characterized by indirection and delay due to the
patients excessive use of details that have no connection to the point
derailment correct answers speech in which a person shifts topics with no apparent relation
between the topics
