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MENTAL HEALTH NU160 EXAM 3 UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST
TESTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED
SUCCESS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
1. Akathisia is best defined as:
A. Absence of movement
B. Involuntary muscle contractions
C. The inability to sit still (inner restlessness)
D. Loss of speech
Rationale: Akathisia presents as an inability to remain still and motor restlessness, often drug-
induced.
2. Akinesia refers to:
A. Tremor of the hands
B. Absence of physical and mental movement
C. Excessive movement
D. Inability to speak
Rationale: Akinesia denotes marked reduction or absence of voluntary movement.
3. Drug-induced parkinsonism describes:
A. Genetic Parkinson’s only
B. A group of symptoms that mimic Parkinson’s disease caused by medications
C. A psychiatric diagnosis
D. A type of seizure disorder
Rationale: Certain meds (antipsychotics) can cause bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor resembling
Parkinson’s.
4. Dyskinesia is:
A. A type of infection
B. Inability to execute voluntary movements (or abnormal involuntary movements)
C. Complete paralysis
D. Speech impairment only
Rationale: Dyskinesia involves abnormal or impaired voluntary movements; tardive dyskinesia is
a form.
5. Dystonia most correctly describes:
A. A mood disorder
B. Impaired muscle tone producing rigidity affecting posture, gait, or eye movements
C. Peripheral neuropathy
D. Only facial tics
Rationale: Dystonia = sustained muscle contractions causing twisting/postural abnormalities.
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6. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS) is characterized by all EXCEPT:
A. Fever and muscle rigidity
B. Unstable vital signs and confusion
C. Rapid improvement without intervention
D. Tremor and incontinence
Rationale: NMS is life-threatening and requires immediate treatment; it does not rapidly self-
resolve.
7. Tardive dyskinesia is:
A. A short-term effect of benzodiazepines
B. An often irreversible involuntary movement disorder from long-term antipsychotic use
C. A mood symptom of depression
D. A form of dystonia only seen in children
Rationale: TD causes repetitive facial/trunk/limb movements after chronic antipsychotic
exposure.
8. Type 1 (positive) symptoms of schizophrenia include:
A. Avolition and flat affect
B. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech/behavior (excess/added behaviors)
C. Social withdrawal only
D. Improved functioning
Rationale: Positive symptoms are additions to normal experience (hallucinations, delusions).
9. Type 2 (negative) symptoms of schizophrenia include:
A. Auditory hallucinations
B. Apathy, anhedonia, avolition, flat affect (loss of normal functions)
C. Bizarre delusions only
D. Increased speech output
Rationale: Negative symptoms represent deficits in affect, motivation, and speech.
10. Psychosis is best described as:
A. Mild anxiety only
B. Inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life demands
C. A physical illness only
D. Temporary tiredness
Rationale: Psychosis disrupts reality testing and social functioning.
11. The most common psychotic disorder is:
A. Bipolar disorder with psychotic features
B. Schizophrenia
C. Dissociative identity disorder
D. OCD
Rationale: Schizophrenia is the most prevalent primary psychotic disorder.
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12. Catatonia typically involves:
A. Improved social functioning
B. Immobility or excessive purposeless activity, odd postures, echolalia/echopraxia
C. Only hallucinations
D. A memory deficit only
Rationale: Catatonia affects motor behavior and responsiveness.
13. Which schizophrenia subtype often has the BEST prognosis when treated?
A. Disorganized
B. Residual
C. Paranoid
D. Catatonic
Rationale: Paranoid subtype often maintains organized delusions and may respond better to
treatment.
14. Hallucinations are:
A. Real sensory input with external stimulus
B. False sensory perceptions without external stimuli
C. Always auditory only
D. Fixed false beliefs
Rationale: Hallucinations can be auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory without external
source.
15. Delusions are:
A. Sensory distortions
B. Fixed false beliefs not based in reality
C. Temporary illusions
D. Memory loss episodes
Rationale: Delusions are firmly held beliefs despite contradictory evidence.
16. Illusions differ from hallucinations because:
A. Illusions are always auditory
B. Illusions are misperceptions of real external stimuli
C. Illusions are fixed false beliefs
D. Illusions are the same as delusions
Rationale: Illusions involve misinterpreting real stimuli (e.g., shadow seen as person).
17. Agnosia is the:
A. Loss of speech
B. Inability to recognize familiar objects or people
C. Distortion of time perception
D. Inability to sleep
Rationale: Agnosia reflects impaired recognition despite intact senses.
MENTAL HEALTH NU160 EXAM 3 UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST
TESTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED
SUCCESS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
1. Akathisia is best defined as:
A. Absence of movement
B. Involuntary muscle contractions
C. The inability to sit still (inner restlessness)
D. Loss of speech
Rationale: Akathisia presents as an inability to remain still and motor restlessness, often drug-
induced.
2. Akinesia refers to:
A. Tremor of the hands
B. Absence of physical and mental movement
C. Excessive movement
D. Inability to speak
Rationale: Akinesia denotes marked reduction or absence of voluntary movement.
3. Drug-induced parkinsonism describes:
A. Genetic Parkinson’s only
B. A group of symptoms that mimic Parkinson’s disease caused by medications
C. A psychiatric diagnosis
D. A type of seizure disorder
Rationale: Certain meds (antipsychotics) can cause bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor resembling
Parkinson’s.
4. Dyskinesia is:
A. A type of infection
B. Inability to execute voluntary movements (or abnormal involuntary movements)
C. Complete paralysis
D. Speech impairment only
Rationale: Dyskinesia involves abnormal or impaired voluntary movements; tardive dyskinesia is
a form.
5. Dystonia most correctly describes:
A. A mood disorder
B. Impaired muscle tone producing rigidity affecting posture, gait, or eye movements
C. Peripheral neuropathy
D. Only facial tics
Rationale: Dystonia = sustained muscle contractions causing twisting/postural abnormalities.
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6. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS) is characterized by all EXCEPT:
A. Fever and muscle rigidity
B. Unstable vital signs and confusion
C. Rapid improvement without intervention
D. Tremor and incontinence
Rationale: NMS is life-threatening and requires immediate treatment; it does not rapidly self-
resolve.
7. Tardive dyskinesia is:
A. A short-term effect of benzodiazepines
B. An often irreversible involuntary movement disorder from long-term antipsychotic use
C. A mood symptom of depression
D. A form of dystonia only seen in children
Rationale: TD causes repetitive facial/trunk/limb movements after chronic antipsychotic
exposure.
8. Type 1 (positive) symptoms of schizophrenia include:
A. Avolition and flat affect
B. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech/behavior (excess/added behaviors)
C. Social withdrawal only
D. Improved functioning
Rationale: Positive symptoms are additions to normal experience (hallucinations, delusions).
9. Type 2 (negative) symptoms of schizophrenia include:
A. Auditory hallucinations
B. Apathy, anhedonia, avolition, flat affect (loss of normal functions)
C. Bizarre delusions only
D. Increased speech output
Rationale: Negative symptoms represent deficits in affect, motivation, and speech.
10. Psychosis is best described as:
A. Mild anxiety only
B. Inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life demands
C. A physical illness only
D. Temporary tiredness
Rationale: Psychosis disrupts reality testing and social functioning.
11. The most common psychotic disorder is:
A. Bipolar disorder with psychotic features
B. Schizophrenia
C. Dissociative identity disorder
D. OCD
Rationale: Schizophrenia is the most prevalent primary psychotic disorder.
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12. Catatonia typically involves:
A. Improved social functioning
B. Immobility or excessive purposeless activity, odd postures, echolalia/echopraxia
C. Only hallucinations
D. A memory deficit only
Rationale: Catatonia affects motor behavior and responsiveness.
13. Which schizophrenia subtype often has the BEST prognosis when treated?
A. Disorganized
B. Residual
C. Paranoid
D. Catatonic
Rationale: Paranoid subtype often maintains organized delusions and may respond better to
treatment.
14. Hallucinations are:
A. Real sensory input with external stimulus
B. False sensory perceptions without external stimuli
C. Always auditory only
D. Fixed false beliefs
Rationale: Hallucinations can be auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory without external
source.
15. Delusions are:
A. Sensory distortions
B. Fixed false beliefs not based in reality
C. Temporary illusions
D. Memory loss episodes
Rationale: Delusions are firmly held beliefs despite contradictory evidence.
16. Illusions differ from hallucinations because:
A. Illusions are always auditory
B. Illusions are misperceptions of real external stimuli
C. Illusions are fixed false beliefs
D. Illusions are the same as delusions
Rationale: Illusions involve misinterpreting real stimuli (e.g., shadow seen as person).
17. Agnosia is the:
A. Loss of speech
B. Inability to recognize familiar objects or people
C. Distortion of time perception
D. Inability to sleep
Rationale: Agnosia reflects impaired recognition despite intact senses.
