Psych NP Review Exam Prep Questions And Answers (202472025)
simultagnosia - ✔✔Inability to comphrehend more than one element of visual scene at a time
anosognosia - ✔✔Ignorance of illness
apraxias - ✔✔Inability to carry out specific tasks
astereognosis - ✔✔Inability to recognize objects by touch
adiadochokinesia - ✔✔Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Name four disturbances of attention - ✔✔Hypervigliance, selective inattention, distractibility,
trance
What is hypervigilance? - ✔✔excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
What is selective inattenion? - ✔✔Blocking out only things that generate anxiety
What is distractability? - ✔✔Inability to concentrate attention
What is trance? - ✔✔focused attention and altered consciousness
Name 4 disturbances in preception - ✔✔Hallunications, hypagonic experiences,
depersonalization, and derealization
Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - ✔✔anorexia, hyperphagia, insomnia,
hypersomnia, durinal variation
What is hyperphagia? - ✔✔increased appiette or intake of food
, What is hypersomnia? - ✔✔excessive sleeping
What is durinal variation? - ✔✔mood regularly worse in the morning, immediately after waking,
then improves as the day goes on
The loss of normal speech melody is? - ✔✔Dysprosody
The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - ✔✔Sterotypy
The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - ✔✔Echopraxia
Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states is? -
✔✔Cataplexy
Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - ✔✔Mannerisms
Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - ✔✔Akathisia
Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
✔✔Tangentality
Sundowning is usually associated with? - ✔✔Being over medicated
What are neologisms? - ✔✔new words created by patients
What is loosening of associations? - ✔✔Flow of thoughts in which ideas shift from one subject to
another in completly unrelated way
simultagnosia - ✔✔Inability to comphrehend more than one element of visual scene at a time
anosognosia - ✔✔Ignorance of illness
apraxias - ✔✔Inability to carry out specific tasks
astereognosis - ✔✔Inability to recognize objects by touch
adiadochokinesia - ✔✔Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Name four disturbances of attention - ✔✔Hypervigliance, selective inattention, distractibility,
trance
What is hypervigilance? - ✔✔excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
What is selective inattenion? - ✔✔Blocking out only things that generate anxiety
What is distractability? - ✔✔Inability to concentrate attention
What is trance? - ✔✔focused attention and altered consciousness
Name 4 disturbances in preception - ✔✔Hallunications, hypagonic experiences,
depersonalization, and derealization
Name 5 physiological disturbances associated with mood - ✔✔anorexia, hyperphagia, insomnia,
hypersomnia, durinal variation
What is hyperphagia? - ✔✔increased appiette or intake of food
, What is hypersomnia? - ✔✔excessive sleeping
What is durinal variation? - ✔✔mood regularly worse in the morning, immediately after waking,
then improves as the day goes on
The loss of normal speech melody is? - ✔✔Dysprosody
The repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech is? - ✔✔Sterotypy
The pathological imiatation of movements of one's person is? - ✔✔Echopraxia
Temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipatated by variety of emotional states is? -
✔✔Cataplexy
Ingrained, habitual involuntary movements are? - ✔✔Mannerisms
Subjectuve feelings of muscular tension secondary to psych meds is? - ✔✔Akathisia
Coherent patients that never gets to the point has a disturbance in the form of thought -
✔✔Tangentality
Sundowning is usually associated with? - ✔✔Being over medicated
What are neologisms? - ✔✔new words created by patients
What is loosening of associations? - ✔✔Flow of thoughts in which ideas shift from one subject to
another in completly unrelated way
