NR547 WEEK 3 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND WELL DEFINED DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS
)|ALREADY GRADED A+
psychosis - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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 - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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 - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-
Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorder
Hostility
,Excitability
Psychosis: Motor Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Motor delay
Dyscoordination
EPS
-Parkinsonism
-Dyskinesia
Psychosis: Affective Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Depression
Anxiety
Suicidality
Psychosis: Cognition symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Attention
Working memory
Verbal memory
Visual memory
Executive functioning
Processing speed
Social conditioning
, Psychosis: Negative Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Affective
flattening
Alogia
Anhedonia
Amotivation
Asociality
Hallucinations: - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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
Delusions: - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-fixed false, irrational beliefs
-persecution: delusions r/t being threatened, victimized, or spied on
-reference: delusions r/t receiving personal messages from tv, radio,
or actions of others
QUESTIONS AND WELL DEFINED DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS
)|ALREADY GRADED A+
psychosis - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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 - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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 - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-
Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorder
Hostility
,Excitability
Psychosis: Motor Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Motor delay
Dyscoordination
EPS
-Parkinsonism
-Dyskinesia
Psychosis: Affective Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Depression
Anxiety
Suicidality
Psychosis: Cognition symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Attention
Working memory
Verbal memory
Visual memory
Executive functioning
Processing speed
Social conditioning
, Psychosis: Negative Symptoms - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-Affective
flattening
Alogia
Anhedonia
Amotivation
Asociality
Hallucinations: - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-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
Delusions: - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-fixed false, irrational beliefs
-persecution: delusions r/t being threatened, victimized, or spied on
-reference: delusions r/t receiving personal messages from tv, radio,
or actions of others
