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The nurse positions a male client's arm in an outward position to take his blood pressure. When
the cuff is removed, the client's arm remains in the same position for a while before he relaxes.
The nurse refers to this psychomotor behavior as
a. anergia
b. wavy flexibility
c. posturing
d. regression correct answers b. wavy flexibility
A mental health patient tries to explain to the nurse how to build a birdhouse. His instructions
consist of random words that do not make sense. The nurse refers to this form of thought as
a. associative looseness
b. neologisms
c. depersonalization
d. word salad correct answers d. word salad
A pediatric mental health patient says to the nurse, "It snowed last night because I wished very,
very hard that it would." The nurse knows that the patient is exhibiting which of the following
positive symptoms?
a. illusions
b. magical thinking
c. delusions
d. concrete thinking correct answers b. magical thinking
Which of the following are negative symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
, a. posturing
b. deteriorated appearance
c. religiosity
d. perseveration
e. echopraxia
f. hallucinations correct answers a. posturing
b. deteriorated appearance
Which of the following are negative symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
a. magical thinking
b. social isolation
c. bland or flat affect
d. anhedonia
e. regression
f. emotional ambivalence correct answers b. social isolation
c. bland or flat affect
d. anhedonia
e. regression
f. emotional ambivalence
Refer to Box 15-2, p. 351: Positive and Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia
Which of the following are positive symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
a. posturing
The nurse positions a male client's arm in an outward position to take his blood pressure. When
the cuff is removed, the client's arm remains in the same position for a while before he relaxes.
The nurse refers to this psychomotor behavior as
a. anergia
b. wavy flexibility
c. posturing
d. regression correct answers b. wavy flexibility
A mental health patient tries to explain to the nurse how to build a birdhouse. His instructions
consist of random words that do not make sense. The nurse refers to this form of thought as
a. associative looseness
b. neologisms
c. depersonalization
d. word salad correct answers d. word salad
A pediatric mental health patient says to the nurse, "It snowed last night because I wished very,
very hard that it would." The nurse knows that the patient is exhibiting which of the following
positive symptoms?
a. illusions
b. magical thinking
c. delusions
d. concrete thinking correct answers b. magical thinking
Which of the following are negative symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
, a. posturing
b. deteriorated appearance
c. religiosity
d. perseveration
e. echopraxia
f. hallucinations correct answers a. posturing
b. deteriorated appearance
Which of the following are negative symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
a. magical thinking
b. social isolation
c. bland or flat affect
d. anhedonia
e. regression
f. emotional ambivalence correct answers b. social isolation
c. bland or flat affect
d. anhedonia
e. regression
f. emotional ambivalence
Refer to Box 15-2, p. 351: Positive and Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia
Which of the following are positive symptoms of schizophrenia? Select all that apply.
a. posturing
