NR547 Week 3 Exam Study
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psychosis - Ans✔✔-disruptions in thoughts and perceptions leading to a
disconnection from reality
-symptoms may include abnormal behaviors and sensations, including
catatonic behavior
-may be acute or chronic
-Although psychosis is categorized as a psychiatric disorder, it commonly occurs
as a secondary condition due to underlying endocrine, vascular, immunologic,
or metabolic problems
-Drugs, other substances, or other psychiatric conditions such as depression or
mania may also cause symptoms
Psychosis: Clinical Presentation - Ans✔✔-divided into several clinical domains
-positive
• occur when clients experience things in addition to reality
• hearing voices or seeing things that are not there
-negative
• involve a loss of something
,• loss of ability to experience pleasure or loss of motivation
-cognitive
• disorganization in thoughts, memories, focus, or attention
-affective
• the client's feelings and emotions
-motor
• may include abnormalities in gait, balance, and coordination, irregular muscle
contractions, or tremors
Psychosis: Positive Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorder
Hostility
Excitability
Psychosis: Motor Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Motor delay
Dyscoordination
EPS
-Parkinsonism
-Dyskinesia
Psychosis: Affective Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Depression
, Anxiety
Suicidality
Psychosis: Cognition symptoms - Ans✔✔-Attention
Working memory
Verbal memory
Visual memory
Executive functioning
Processing speed
Social conditioning
Psychosis: Negative Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Affective flattening
Alogia
Anhedonia
Amotivation
Asociality
Hallucinations: - Ans✔✔-perceptual experiences in the absence of external
stimuli
-Auditory
• may include command hallucinations
-Visual
-Tactile: feeling sensations in the body in the absence of stimuli
-Olfactory: smelling things that are not there
-Gustatory: tasting things that are not there
Guide: GRADED A+. Questions
and Verified Answers. Latest
2026 Update
psychosis - Ans✔✔-disruptions in thoughts and perceptions leading to a
disconnection from reality
-symptoms may include abnormal behaviors and sensations, including
catatonic behavior
-may be acute or chronic
-Although psychosis is categorized as a psychiatric disorder, it commonly occurs
as a secondary condition due to underlying endocrine, vascular, immunologic,
or metabolic problems
-Drugs, other substances, or other psychiatric conditions such as depression or
mania may also cause symptoms
Psychosis: Clinical Presentation - Ans✔✔-divided into several clinical domains
-positive
• occur when clients experience things in addition to reality
• hearing voices or seeing things that are not there
-negative
• involve a loss of something
,• loss of ability to experience pleasure or loss of motivation
-cognitive
• disorganization in thoughts, memories, focus, or attention
-affective
• the client's feelings and emotions
-motor
• may include abnormalities in gait, balance, and coordination, irregular muscle
contractions, or tremors
Psychosis: Positive Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorder
Hostility
Excitability
Psychosis: Motor Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Motor delay
Dyscoordination
EPS
-Parkinsonism
-Dyskinesia
Psychosis: Affective Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Depression
, Anxiety
Suicidality
Psychosis: Cognition symptoms - Ans✔✔-Attention
Working memory
Verbal memory
Visual memory
Executive functioning
Processing speed
Social conditioning
Psychosis: Negative Symptoms - Ans✔✔-Affective flattening
Alogia
Anhedonia
Amotivation
Asociality
Hallucinations: - Ans✔✔-perceptual experiences in the absence of external
stimuli
-Auditory
• may include command hallucinations
-Visual
-Tactile: feeling sensations in the body in the absence of stimuli
-Olfactory: smelling things that are not there
-Gustatory: tasting things that are not there
