A client with schizophrenia is described as "having difficulty with executive functions." What can the nurse expect to assess behaviorally?
1. Inability to speak
2. Inhibited behaviors
3. Poor response to social cues
4. Uncoordinated movements
ANS: 3
Executive functions include reasoning, planning, prioritizing, sequencing behavior, insight, flexi-bility, judgment, focusing on tasks, responding to social cues, and attending in appropriate ways to incoming stimuli. Executive functions arise from the association cortex of the frontal lobe.
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