NCCAP NATIONAL UPDATED EXAM TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Advance Directives - ✔✔a written statement of a person's wishes regarding their
medical treatment, usually includes a living will
✔✔Kubler-Ross - ✔✔woman psychologist who identified 5 stages of dying. This
process is individualized by each person.
✔✔Robert Havighurst - ✔✔man who developed developmental tasks theory: ( tasks that
take place at a specific time during one's life.)
✔✔Primary Aging - ✔✔the course of physical deterioration that takes place throughout
life.
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔casual principles representing the "proper" age and behavior for a
range of life events.
✔✔Stages of grief - ✔✔shock, emotional release, depression, physical symptoms,
panic, guilt/regrets, anger/hostility, inability to return, hope, adjustment to reality are a
part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost.
✔✔Coping Skills - ✔✔are methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
, ✔✔Activity Theory - ✔✔theory that most people are at their highest point of happiness
when they are occupied in some kind of gratifying activity.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔prescriptive time line for important events which occur in
someone's life .
✔✔Theories on Aging - ✔✔Psychological & social (psycho social) and physical
(biological) theories of aging.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔a sub category of gerontology. Focuses on the social rather
than the biological/physical features of aging
✔✔Abraham Maslow - ✔✔psychologist who developed a pyramid of needs that
influence inspirations.
✔✔Erik Erickson - ✔✔man who developed a theory involving 8 stages of life. "We
develop our personality by the way we resolve stages in our life".
✔✔Personality - ✔✔the mixture of characteristics that form an person's unique spirit.
✔✔Wellness model - ✔✔Treatment give emphasis to wellness. The person is seen as a
complete ( spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially)
✔✔Fluid intelligence - ✔✔the capacity to think rationally and resolve problems in
situations, independent of acquired knowledge. It involves the ability to identify patterns
and relationships that strengthen problems and to extrapolate these findings using logic.
✔✔Medical model - ✔✔most usual sickness centered approach to treatment. It focuses
on the sickness, not the human being.
✔✔Long term care model - ✔✔focuses on the resident's rights & quality of life/care.
(involved in planning process, individual activities, one on one activities involving staff,
volunteers, families, friends, peers, groups activities in and out of the facility and in the
community.)
✔✔Crystallized intelligence - ✔✔the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience. It
does not associate with memory, but it does rely on accessing information from long-
term memory.
✔✔Restorative care model - ✔✔"restorative nursing" Residents who have finished
therapy, but are continuing to increase skills or preserve them..
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Advance Directives - ✔✔a written statement of a person's wishes regarding their
medical treatment, usually includes a living will
✔✔Kubler-Ross - ✔✔woman psychologist who identified 5 stages of dying. This
process is individualized by each person.
✔✔Robert Havighurst - ✔✔man who developed developmental tasks theory: ( tasks that
take place at a specific time during one's life.)
✔✔Primary Aging - ✔✔the course of physical deterioration that takes place throughout
life.
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔casual principles representing the "proper" age and behavior for a
range of life events.
✔✔Stages of grief - ✔✔shock, emotional release, depression, physical symptoms,
panic, guilt/regrets, anger/hostility, inability to return, hope, adjustment to reality are a
part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost.
✔✔Coping Skills - ✔✔are methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
, ✔✔Activity Theory - ✔✔theory that most people are at their highest point of happiness
when they are occupied in some kind of gratifying activity.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔prescriptive time line for important events which occur in
someone's life .
✔✔Theories on Aging - ✔✔Psychological & social (psycho social) and physical
(biological) theories of aging.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔a sub category of gerontology. Focuses on the social rather
than the biological/physical features of aging
✔✔Abraham Maslow - ✔✔psychologist who developed a pyramid of needs that
influence inspirations.
✔✔Erik Erickson - ✔✔man who developed a theory involving 8 stages of life. "We
develop our personality by the way we resolve stages in our life".
✔✔Personality - ✔✔the mixture of characteristics that form an person's unique spirit.
✔✔Wellness model - ✔✔Treatment give emphasis to wellness. The person is seen as a
complete ( spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially)
✔✔Fluid intelligence - ✔✔the capacity to think rationally and resolve problems in
situations, independent of acquired knowledge. It involves the ability to identify patterns
and relationships that strengthen problems and to extrapolate these findings using logic.
✔✔Medical model - ✔✔most usual sickness centered approach to treatment. It focuses
on the sickness, not the human being.
✔✔Long term care model - ✔✔focuses on the resident's rights & quality of life/care.
(involved in planning process, individual activities, one on one activities involving staff,
volunteers, families, friends, peers, groups activities in and out of the facility and in the
community.)
✔✔Crystallized intelligence - ✔✔the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience. It
does not associate with memory, but it does rely on accessing information from long-
term memory.
✔✔Restorative care model - ✔✔"restorative nursing" Residents who have finished
therapy, but are continuing to increase skills or preserve them..
