You Are Completing an Initial Examination on a 74-Year-Old Man

question 58

Multiple Choice

You are completing an initial examination on a 74-year-old man. His daughter attends the appointment with him and reports that she has noticed progressive confusion, disorientation, and deterioration of intellectual capacity and function. The patient does not show a speech disturbance or restlessness. All of these findings indicate:

• A) Alzheimer disease.
• B) bradykinesia.
• C) dementia.
• D) Parkinson disease.

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Definitions:

Individual Differences

Variabilities among people in their behaviors, cognition, personality, and other attributes.

Rep Test

A technique used in psychology to explore an individual's personal constructs, specifically how they perceive and interpret their world and the people in it.

Personal Construct

An individual's unique mental framework used to interpret and understand the world around them.

Psychological Disorders

Patterns of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple areas of life and create distress for the person affected.