NUR2459 PROFESSIONAL EXAMPREP 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
REVIEW GRADED A+
◉ Medication response for Negative Symptoms. Answer: Often
PERSISTS despite medications.
◉ Positive/Soft Symptoms. Answer: Appear in acute episodes.
◉ Negative/Hard Symptoms. Answer: Present throughout illness.
◉ Delusions. Answer: Fixed false beliefs: persecution, grandiose,
religious, somatic, reference, control.
◉ Hallucinations. Answer: False sensory perceptions, auditory,
visual, tactile, and olfactory.
◉ Disorganized speech. Answer: Loose associations, word salad,
neologisms, clang associations, tangentiality.
,◉ Disorganized behavior. Answer: Hyperactivity, agitation, childlike
silliness, inappropriate acts.
◉ Catatonia. Answer: Psychologically induced immobility or
excessive movement, waxy flexibility.
◉ Alogia. Answer: Poverty of speech, little substance.
◉ Anhedonia. Answer: No joy or pleasure from life or activities.
◉ Apathy. Answer: Indifference toward people, activities, events.
◉ Asociality. Answer: Social withdrawal; few relationships.
◉ Avolition. Answer: Absence of will or drive to take action.
◉ Affect is blunted. Answer: Restricted emotional range.
◉ Affect is flat. Answer: No facial expression of emotions.
◉ Inattention. Answer: Cannot concentrate or focus.
, ◉ Anosognosia. Answer: Lack of awareness of having an illness or
disorder, even when symptoms are obvious to others.
◉ Anergia. Answer: Lack of energy.
◉ Etiology - Genetic. Answer: If one parent has it, 15% chance to get
it; both is 35%.
◉ Etiology - Neuroanatomic. Answer: Less brain tissue, enlarged
ventricles, decreased frontal/temporal volume.
◉ Etiology - Neurochemical. Answer: Dopamine excess, serotonin
modulation.
◉ Prognosis Factors - Better Prognosis. Answer: High premorbid
functioning, later onset, female, abrupt onset, rapid symptom
resolution, no family history, medication adherence, no substance
use, supportive family, early treatment.
◉ Prognosis Factors - Poorer Prognosis. Answer: Low premorbid
functioning, earlier onset, male, gradual, insidious onset, persistent
symptoms, positive family history, non-adherence, persistent
substance use, critical family, longer, untreated psychosis.
TESTED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
REVIEW GRADED A+
◉ Medication response for Negative Symptoms. Answer: Often
PERSISTS despite medications.
◉ Positive/Soft Symptoms. Answer: Appear in acute episodes.
◉ Negative/Hard Symptoms. Answer: Present throughout illness.
◉ Delusions. Answer: Fixed false beliefs: persecution, grandiose,
religious, somatic, reference, control.
◉ Hallucinations. Answer: False sensory perceptions, auditory,
visual, tactile, and olfactory.
◉ Disorganized speech. Answer: Loose associations, word salad,
neologisms, clang associations, tangentiality.
,◉ Disorganized behavior. Answer: Hyperactivity, agitation, childlike
silliness, inappropriate acts.
◉ Catatonia. Answer: Psychologically induced immobility or
excessive movement, waxy flexibility.
◉ Alogia. Answer: Poverty of speech, little substance.
◉ Anhedonia. Answer: No joy or pleasure from life or activities.
◉ Apathy. Answer: Indifference toward people, activities, events.
◉ Asociality. Answer: Social withdrawal; few relationships.
◉ Avolition. Answer: Absence of will or drive to take action.
◉ Affect is blunted. Answer: Restricted emotional range.
◉ Affect is flat. Answer: No facial expression of emotions.
◉ Inattention. Answer: Cannot concentrate or focus.
, ◉ Anosognosia. Answer: Lack of awareness of having an illness or
disorder, even when symptoms are obvious to others.
◉ Anergia. Answer: Lack of energy.
◉ Etiology - Genetic. Answer: If one parent has it, 15% chance to get
it; both is 35%.
◉ Etiology - Neuroanatomic. Answer: Less brain tissue, enlarged
ventricles, decreased frontal/temporal volume.
◉ Etiology - Neurochemical. Answer: Dopamine excess, serotonin
modulation.
◉ Prognosis Factors - Better Prognosis. Answer: High premorbid
functioning, later onset, female, abrupt onset, rapid symptom
resolution, no family history, medication adherence, no substance
use, supportive family, early treatment.
◉ Prognosis Factors - Poorer Prognosis. Answer: Low premorbid
functioning, earlier onset, male, gradual, insidious onset, persistent
symptoms, positive family history, non-adherence, persistent
substance use, critical family, longer, untreated psychosis.
