Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Exam
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Exam – 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
1. anosognosia - Correct Answer Ignorance of illness
2. apraxias - Correct Answer Inability to carry out specific tasks
3. astereognosis - Correct Answer Inability to recognize objects by touch
4. adiadochokinesia - Correct Answer Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
5. Name four disturbances of attention - Correct Answer Hypervigliance, selective
inattention, distractibility, trance
6. What is hypervigilance? - Correct Answer excessive attention and focus on all internal
and external stimuli
7. What is selective inattenion? - Correct Answer Blocking out only things that generate
anxiety
8. What is distractability? - Correct Answer Inability to concentrate attention
9. What is trance? - Correct Answer focused attention and altered consciousness
10. Name 4 disturbances in preception - Correct Answer Hallunications, hypagonic
experiences, depersonalization, and derealization
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, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Exam
11. Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - Correct Answer anorexia,
hyperphagia, insomnia, hypersomnia, durinal variation
12. What is hyperphagia? - Correct Answer increased appiette or intake of food
13. What is hypersomnia? - Correct Answer excessive sleeping
14. What is durinal variation? - Correct Answer mood regularly worse in the morning,
immediately after waking, then improves as the day goes on
15. The loss of normal speech melody is? - Correct Answer Dysprosody
16. The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - Correct Answer Sterotypy
17. The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - Correct Answer
Echopraxia
18. Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states
is? - Correct Answer Cataplexy
19. Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - Correct Answer Mannerisms
20. Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - Correct Answer
Akathisia
21. Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
Correct Answer Tangentality
22. Sundowning is usually associated with? - Correct Answer Being over medicated
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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Exam – 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
1. anosognosia - Correct Answer Ignorance of illness
2. apraxias - Correct Answer Inability to carry out specific tasks
3. astereognosis - Correct Answer Inability to recognize objects by touch
4. adiadochokinesia - Correct Answer Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
5. Name four disturbances of attention - Correct Answer Hypervigliance, selective
inattention, distractibility, trance
6. What is hypervigilance? - Correct Answer excessive attention and focus on all internal
and external stimuli
7. What is selective inattenion? - Correct Answer Blocking out only things that generate
anxiety
8. What is distractability? - Correct Answer Inability to concentrate attention
9. What is trance? - Correct Answer focused attention and altered consciousness
10. Name 4 disturbances in preception - Correct Answer Hallunications, hypagonic
experiences, depersonalization, and derealization
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, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Exam
11. Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - Correct Answer anorexia,
hyperphagia, insomnia, hypersomnia, durinal variation
12. What is hyperphagia? - Correct Answer increased appiette or intake of food
13. What is hypersomnia? - Correct Answer excessive sleeping
14. What is durinal variation? - Correct Answer mood regularly worse in the morning,
immediately after waking, then improves as the day goes on
15. The loss of normal speech melody is? - Correct Answer Dysprosody
16. The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - Correct Answer Sterotypy
17. The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - Correct Answer
Echopraxia
18. Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states
is? - Correct Answer Cataplexy
19. Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - Correct Answer Mannerisms
20. Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - Correct Answer
Akathisia
21. Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
Correct Answer Tangentality
22. Sundowning is usually associated with? - Correct Answer Being over medicated
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