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NURS 663 EXAM CHAPTER #8 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NURS 663 EXAM CHAPTER #8QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Psychoneurosis includes all of the following disorders except:
A. anxiety disorders
B. OCD
C. sexual dysfunction
D. dysthymia
E. delusional disorders - Answer-E. delusional disorders
Sterotypy is:
A. ingrained, habitual involuntary movement
B. repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech
C. pathological imitation of movements of one person by another
D. subjective feeling of muscular tension and restlessness
E. temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional
states - Answer-B. repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech
Alexithymia is:
A. an unpleasant mood
B. a state in which a person is easily annoyed and provoked to anger
C. a loss of interest in and withdrawal from pleasurable activities
D. an inability to describe or to be aware of emotions or mood
E. a normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated emotional state
- Answer-D. an inability to describe or to be aware of emotions or mood
Sundowning:
A. is a result of overmedication
B. is associated with akathisia
C. is associated with stupor
D. occurs usually as a function of mania
E. usually occurs in young individuals - Answer-A. is a result of overmedication
A psychiatric patient who, although coherent, never gets to the point has a disturbance
in the form of thought called:
A. blocking
B. tangentiality
C. verbigeration
D. circumstantiality
E. word salad - Answer-B. tangentiality
In DSM 5, delirium tremens is called:
A. opiate withdrawal delirium
B. alcohol withdrawal delirium
, C. benzodiazepine withdrawal delirium
D. alcohol intoxication delirium
E. amphetamine intoxication delirium - Answer-B. alcohol withdrawal delirium
Asking a patient to interpret a proverb is used as a way of assessing:
A. abstract thinking
B. impulse control
C. insight
D. intelligence
E. judgment - Answer-A. abstract thinking
Which of the following is a paramnesia:
A. eidetic images
B. jamais vu
C. letholgica
D. reproession
E. screen memories - Answer-B. jamais vu
The "Alice in Wonderland" effect is another name for:
A. dysmegalopsia
B. dysphasia
C. trailing phenomenon
D. dysmetria
E. fausse reconnaissance - Answer-A. dysmegalopsia
Broca's aphasia is another term used for:
A. fluent aphasia
B. jargon aphasia
C. global aphasia
D. pharaphasia
E. expressive aphasia - Answer-E. expressive aphasia
Compared with primary process thinking, secondary process thinking is:
A. illogical
B. related to the id
C. influenced by the environment
D. immediate gratification seeking
E. magical - Answer-C. influenced by the environment
A 41yr man presents to his psychiatrist upon his wifes request. 4 weeks earlier, the pt
was hospitalized for a mild injury to his head after crashing his car into a tree. He has a
3 yr hx of alcoholism. the pt recounts that while shopping in his local grocery store 2
weeks ago, he had the realization that the store clerk is simply an imposter replacing his
wife. The pt's wife insists that her hsuband is completely delusional and is on the verge
of divorcing him if he continues to neglect her as his actual, lawful wife of 15 yrs. Which
of the following types of delusions is the pt expressing?
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