MENTAL HEALTH NU160 EXAM 3
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - ANSWERA serious and potentially fatal side effect
with unstable vital signs, fever, confusion, muscle rigidity, tremor, and incontinence
Type 1: Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia - ANSWERMaladaptive behaviors and
thoughts, ACTIONS, ACT OUT
Delusions, hallucinations, illusions, speech problems, bizarre behaviors, agitation,
catatonic behavior
Too much dopamine, brain size and structure normal
Response to antipsychotics is usually good
Type 2: Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - ANSWERLack of adaptive
mechanisms, THOUGHTS, DON'T ACT OUT
Anergia, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, flat affect, won't speak unless spoken to
Too little dopamine, decreased blood flow to brain, increased size of ventricles in brain,
decrease in size of brain
Response to antipsychotics is usually poor
The inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life's demands is -
ANSWERpsychosis
Catatonia - ANSWERdisrupts how your brain works, disrupting how a person processes
and reacts to the world around them
Schizophrenia Subtype: Catatonic - ANSWERimmobility or excessive activity with no
purpose, odd movements, rigid posture, echopraxia (mimics movements of others),
echolalia (echoes others' speech), may suffer from malnutrition, dehydration,
exhaustion, prognosis is fair
Schizophrenia Subtype: Disorganized - ANSWERdisordered thinking, speech, and
behavior, unable to perform ADL's, early onset, prognosis is poor
Schizophrenia Subtype: Paranoid - ANSWERorganized delusions of grandeur or
persecution, auditory hallucinations, high anxiety, suspicious, angry, can be violent or
suicidal, late onset, prognosis is good with treatment
Schizophrenia Subtype: Residual - ANSWERat least one acute episode of
schizophrenia, is free of acute psychosis but has symptoms of disorder, emotional
changes, schizophrenia present for many years, time is limited between acute episodes,
prognosis is poor
, hallucinations - ANSWERfalse sensory inputs with no external stimuli
delusions - ANSWERfixed false ideas that are not based in reality
illusions - ANSWERfalse perceptions of real stimuli
agnosia - ANSWERinability to recognize familiar objects or people
ideas of reference - ANSWERThe idea that people or the media are talking about
oneself
derealization - ANSWERA loss of ego boundaries with an inability to tell where one's
body ends and the environment begins
An individual with schizophrenia that cannot set goals - ANSWERnegative symptom
Agranulocytosis (dangerously low WBC) can be caused by taking antipsychotic
medications and can lead to - ANSWERinfection
Examples of Positive Symptoms - ANSWERdelusions, hallucinations, disorganized
speech, disorganized behavior, distorted communications, catatonic behavior, agitation
Examples of Negative Symptoms - ANSWERblunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor
rapport, passive behaviors, apathy, social withdrawal, difficult to think abstractly, not
spontaneous, stereotypical thinking, alogia: restricted thought and speech, avolition:
restricted goal-directed behaviors, anhedonia: lack of pleasure, impaired attention
What is an important question to ask a family member of someone in psychosis -
ANSWERis there a family history of mental illness
A random, jumbled set of words that have no connection or relationship to one another -
ANSWERword salad
Repeating words or phrases that sound alike, or substituting a word that sounds like the
appropriate word - ANSWERclang associations
Words or expressions invented by the individual - ANSWERneologisms
Thinking characterized by speech that moves from one unrelated idea to another.
Example: I'm hungry, but the desert has no rain so it's cold outside - ANSWERLoose
associations
Phases of becoming Disorganized: Prodromal phase - ANSWERbegins with withdrawal,
lack of energy, and little motivation
may appear confused, agitated, angry
complain about physical problems
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - ANSWERA serious and potentially fatal side effect
with unstable vital signs, fever, confusion, muscle rigidity, tremor, and incontinence
Type 1: Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia - ANSWERMaladaptive behaviors and
thoughts, ACTIONS, ACT OUT
Delusions, hallucinations, illusions, speech problems, bizarre behaviors, agitation,
catatonic behavior
Too much dopamine, brain size and structure normal
Response to antipsychotics is usually good
Type 2: Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - ANSWERLack of adaptive
mechanisms, THOUGHTS, DON'T ACT OUT
Anergia, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, flat affect, won't speak unless spoken to
Too little dopamine, decreased blood flow to brain, increased size of ventricles in brain,
decrease in size of brain
Response to antipsychotics is usually poor
The inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life's demands is -
ANSWERpsychosis
Catatonia - ANSWERdisrupts how your brain works, disrupting how a person processes
and reacts to the world around them
Schizophrenia Subtype: Catatonic - ANSWERimmobility or excessive activity with no
purpose, odd movements, rigid posture, echopraxia (mimics movements of others),
echolalia (echoes others' speech), may suffer from malnutrition, dehydration,
exhaustion, prognosis is fair
Schizophrenia Subtype: Disorganized - ANSWERdisordered thinking, speech, and
behavior, unable to perform ADL's, early onset, prognosis is poor
Schizophrenia Subtype: Paranoid - ANSWERorganized delusions of grandeur or
persecution, auditory hallucinations, high anxiety, suspicious, angry, can be violent or
suicidal, late onset, prognosis is good with treatment
Schizophrenia Subtype: Residual - ANSWERat least one acute episode of
schizophrenia, is free of acute psychosis but has symptoms of disorder, emotional
changes, schizophrenia present for many years, time is limited between acute episodes,
prognosis is poor
, hallucinations - ANSWERfalse sensory inputs with no external stimuli
delusions - ANSWERfixed false ideas that are not based in reality
illusions - ANSWERfalse perceptions of real stimuli
agnosia - ANSWERinability to recognize familiar objects or people
ideas of reference - ANSWERThe idea that people or the media are talking about
oneself
derealization - ANSWERA loss of ego boundaries with an inability to tell where one's
body ends and the environment begins
An individual with schizophrenia that cannot set goals - ANSWERnegative symptom
Agranulocytosis (dangerously low WBC) can be caused by taking antipsychotic
medications and can lead to - ANSWERinfection
Examples of Positive Symptoms - ANSWERdelusions, hallucinations, disorganized
speech, disorganized behavior, distorted communications, catatonic behavior, agitation
Examples of Negative Symptoms - ANSWERblunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor
rapport, passive behaviors, apathy, social withdrawal, difficult to think abstractly, not
spontaneous, stereotypical thinking, alogia: restricted thought and speech, avolition:
restricted goal-directed behaviors, anhedonia: lack of pleasure, impaired attention
What is an important question to ask a family member of someone in psychosis -
ANSWERis there a family history of mental illness
A random, jumbled set of words that have no connection or relationship to one another -
ANSWERword salad
Repeating words or phrases that sound alike, or substituting a word that sounds like the
appropriate word - ANSWERclang associations
Words or expressions invented by the individual - ANSWERneologisms
Thinking characterized by speech that moves from one unrelated idea to another.
Example: I'm hungry, but the desert has no rain so it's cold outside - ANSWERLoose
associations
Phases of becoming Disorganized: Prodromal phase - ANSWERbegins with withdrawal,
lack of energy, and little motivation
may appear confused, agitated, angry
complain about physical problems
