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