NSG 250 EXAM 3 & NSG-250 FINAL | COMPREHENSIVE NURSING
STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Sternberg's triangle of love: Intimacy - ANS ✔✔Feeling of closeness that occurs, sense of being
connected or bonded. We count on them, have support, share activities.
Sternberg's triangle of love: Passion - ANS ✔✔Physical attraction, arousal, and sexual behavior. Intimacy
can lead to passion, or passion can precedes intimacy
Sternberg's triangle of love: Decision/commitment - ANS ✔✔Includes decision or realization of being in
love and commitment to maintain love
Romantic love - ANS ✔✔intimacy and passion
Companionate love - ANS ✔✔intimacy and decision/commitment
Fatuous love - ANS ✔✔passion and decision/commitment
Consummate love - ANS ✔✔intimacy, passion, commitment
Imaginary audience - ANS ✔✔Adolescent perceptions that others are focusing a lot of critical attention
on them; feeling that they are being scrutinized by other. Friends, parents
Personal Fable - ANS ✔✔Adolescents feel like their emotions are unique and that no one will ever know
the same degree of sadness or happiness. Adolescent feels so special that they are exempt from laws,
rules and vulnerability and the laws of nature. They feel invulnerable and nothing will happen to them.
Often gets the child in trouble
Adolescent egocentrism - ANS ✔✔Other people are fascinated with them, others are critical of them, do
not want their inadequacies shown to others.
Social comparisons - ANS ✔✔People coming to know themselves by evaluating their own attitudes,
abilities, and traits in comparison with others
Piaget - adolescence - ANS ✔✔Formal operations
•Abstract - understand how things are related
•Hypothetical - reasoning
•Reflect on own's thinking
•Better memory and more knowledge
•Independent of environment and circumstance
•Ability to hypothesize
•Ability to plan and think ahead
•More mature approach to decision making
Erikson - Adolescence - ANS ✔✔identity v identity confusion; "who am I?"; try new friends, attitudes,
popular; can lead to identity crisis; cultural context
,Marcia's four identity statuses: Foreclosure - ANS ✔✔•is a seamless transition of identity. No Crisis.
Transitioned was planned by teachers, parents or others; little anxiety with little experimentation or self
reflection. Possible lower self esteem and may be easily influenced by others
Marcia's four identity statuses: Diffusion - ANS ✔✔•Diffusion-lacks a sense of direction, motivation.
Have not experienced any crisis; avoid issues. They have not picked a occupational direction or moral
code. Often associated with neglectful parenting, increased drop out rates, substance abuse.
Marcia's four identity statuses: Moratorium - ANS ✔✔•individual experiences an on going crisis
concerning career choice, religion, ethics. They usually have high anxiety and often have difficulty
breaking away from parents. Sometimes prolonged decision making can result in better choices.
Marcia's four identity statuses: Achievement - ANS ✔✔•individuals have passed through an identity
crisis; make their own choices and moral codes. Most desirable place and set a good foundation for
young adulthood. This is a difficult step. Adolescents in this stage have low anxiety, low confusion and
more self confidence.
Adolescence - Taking risks - ANS ✔✔•Substances
- Drugs
- Alcohol
•Sexual
•Driving
•Adventures
•Gangs
•Mortality rates
Adolescence - Warning Signs:
- Habitual response
- Cognition
- Psycho-social symptoms - ANS ✔✔•Changes in sleep and eating patterns
•Changes in communication
•Memory loss or confusion
•Alienates from family and friends.
•Spends excessive time alone-shys away from activities
•Weight loss or gain
Adolescence - Forming an identity - ANS ✔✔•Reflect on who am I?
•Who I wish to be?
•Real vs ideal self
•Figuring out who they are and how they fit into society
•Social reference group - who you identify with, peers, parents, friends.
•If the groups do not have same ideas
Adolescence - Early and late maturation - ANS ✔✔- Late boys
•Smaller/ less muscles
•Treated younger
•Lower social status
,- Early boys
•Social and athletic
•Expect adult behavior
•Alcohol/substance abuse
•Sexually active earlier
- Late girls
•Mature at same time as boys
•More popular
- Early girls
•Taller than peers
•Body image problems- different than peers
•Can not always discuss with peers
•Experience distress
•Lower self esteem
•Sexually active earlier
Extrinsic motivation in Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Salary, status, convenience (location, hours). Tend to find
life satisfaction outside of the job
Intrinsic motivation in Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Job provides creativity, productivity, offers some
challenges, gain self-esteem or respect
Piaget - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Formal Operations
•Thinking hypothetically and abstractly.
•Includes planning and logical thought.
Gardner - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Multiple intelligence
•Interpersonal skills and Intrapersonal skills
•Reflect on our knowledge of others and ourselves
Erikson - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔•Intimacy versus isolation
•Finding and creating intimate relationship vs being alone
Maslow - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔self actualization
•Motivated towards self-fulfillment
- being the best we can be
Carl Rogers - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔- Conditions of worth -instilled by others, esp. parents
•Do this, don't do that, if you do this you are good, if you do this you are bad
•If we meet the conditions that are positive, we are praised and shown attention however, if we fail to
meet the conditions set we are shamed.
•Conditions are set for us in infancy and we hold to them throughout our lives with the behaviors we
engage in,
•If a person is made an example off, or ridiculed for doing something seen as bad behavior , then they
feel unworthy with no positive regard given externally.
- Unconditional positive regard
•involves showing complete support and acceptance of a person no matter what that person says or
does.
, Holland's Theory of Careers - ANS ✔✔•Individuals work best in jobs that match their interest and
personality
•Explore the types on individual and career track on page
•Match you characteristics with your career path
•Formulate the characteristics
for health care professionals.
Havinghurst: Developmental Model of the One Career Work Cycle - ANS ✔✔- Identify with a worker:
ages 5-10 years
•Working enters self concept through parents
- Develop the habits of industry: 10-15 yrs.
•Learn to organize time- work to give work a priority
- Acquiring an identity as a worker: 15-25 yrs.
•Choose occupation and begin to prepare for it
- Becoming a productive person: 25-40 yrs.
•Perfect skills for their occupation
- Maintaining a productive society: 40-70 yrs.
•High point of career
- Contemplating a productive and responsible life: >70 yrs.
•Retired look back on careers are they satisfied?
Midlife crisis - Levinson - seasons of life - ANS ✔✔•crisis model - changes in mid life are abrupt and
stressful
•earlier decision in life are questioned. Life patterns are reestablished
•Revolves around being young vs old, attached vs isolated
Midlife crisis - Rosenberg - transitions model - ANS ✔✔•Occur around specific events, death of a friend,
parent, sudden illness, unemployment, new job, divorce etc.
•Affect men and women differently. (stay at home mom, when last child leaves)
•Most people can adapt because they know these changes are coming. People plan for the transitions -
crisis are dealt with before they occur
•If situations are anticipated they are less likely to lead to a crisis
Climacteric - ANS ✔✔overall complex of physical and emotional effects that accompany hormonal
changes in middle adulthood
Female:
•Menopause in women ages 45-55
•3 different stages premenopause, perimenopause, and postmenopause.
•Physical changes
•Possible risk of heart disease
•Osteoporosis- bones get weaker
Males
- Climacteric Event
•Erectile issues
+ Related to cardiovascular disease
+ medications etc.
+Decrease in hormones
STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Sternberg's triangle of love: Intimacy - ANS ✔✔Feeling of closeness that occurs, sense of being
connected or bonded. We count on them, have support, share activities.
Sternberg's triangle of love: Passion - ANS ✔✔Physical attraction, arousal, and sexual behavior. Intimacy
can lead to passion, or passion can precedes intimacy
Sternberg's triangle of love: Decision/commitment - ANS ✔✔Includes decision or realization of being in
love and commitment to maintain love
Romantic love - ANS ✔✔intimacy and passion
Companionate love - ANS ✔✔intimacy and decision/commitment
Fatuous love - ANS ✔✔passion and decision/commitment
Consummate love - ANS ✔✔intimacy, passion, commitment
Imaginary audience - ANS ✔✔Adolescent perceptions that others are focusing a lot of critical attention
on them; feeling that they are being scrutinized by other. Friends, parents
Personal Fable - ANS ✔✔Adolescents feel like their emotions are unique and that no one will ever know
the same degree of sadness or happiness. Adolescent feels so special that they are exempt from laws,
rules and vulnerability and the laws of nature. They feel invulnerable and nothing will happen to them.
Often gets the child in trouble
Adolescent egocentrism - ANS ✔✔Other people are fascinated with them, others are critical of them, do
not want their inadequacies shown to others.
Social comparisons - ANS ✔✔People coming to know themselves by evaluating their own attitudes,
abilities, and traits in comparison with others
Piaget - adolescence - ANS ✔✔Formal operations
•Abstract - understand how things are related
•Hypothetical - reasoning
•Reflect on own's thinking
•Better memory and more knowledge
•Independent of environment and circumstance
•Ability to hypothesize
•Ability to plan and think ahead
•More mature approach to decision making
Erikson - Adolescence - ANS ✔✔identity v identity confusion; "who am I?"; try new friends, attitudes,
popular; can lead to identity crisis; cultural context
,Marcia's four identity statuses: Foreclosure - ANS ✔✔•is a seamless transition of identity. No Crisis.
Transitioned was planned by teachers, parents or others; little anxiety with little experimentation or self
reflection. Possible lower self esteem and may be easily influenced by others
Marcia's four identity statuses: Diffusion - ANS ✔✔•Diffusion-lacks a sense of direction, motivation.
Have not experienced any crisis; avoid issues. They have not picked a occupational direction or moral
code. Often associated with neglectful parenting, increased drop out rates, substance abuse.
Marcia's four identity statuses: Moratorium - ANS ✔✔•individual experiences an on going crisis
concerning career choice, religion, ethics. They usually have high anxiety and often have difficulty
breaking away from parents. Sometimes prolonged decision making can result in better choices.
Marcia's four identity statuses: Achievement - ANS ✔✔•individuals have passed through an identity
crisis; make their own choices and moral codes. Most desirable place and set a good foundation for
young adulthood. This is a difficult step. Adolescents in this stage have low anxiety, low confusion and
more self confidence.
Adolescence - Taking risks - ANS ✔✔•Substances
- Drugs
- Alcohol
•Sexual
•Driving
•Adventures
•Gangs
•Mortality rates
Adolescence - Warning Signs:
- Habitual response
- Cognition
- Psycho-social symptoms - ANS ✔✔•Changes in sleep and eating patterns
•Changes in communication
•Memory loss or confusion
•Alienates from family and friends.
•Spends excessive time alone-shys away from activities
•Weight loss or gain
Adolescence - Forming an identity - ANS ✔✔•Reflect on who am I?
•Who I wish to be?
•Real vs ideal self
•Figuring out who they are and how they fit into society
•Social reference group - who you identify with, peers, parents, friends.
•If the groups do not have same ideas
Adolescence - Early and late maturation - ANS ✔✔- Late boys
•Smaller/ less muscles
•Treated younger
•Lower social status
,- Early boys
•Social and athletic
•Expect adult behavior
•Alcohol/substance abuse
•Sexually active earlier
- Late girls
•Mature at same time as boys
•More popular
- Early girls
•Taller than peers
•Body image problems- different than peers
•Can not always discuss with peers
•Experience distress
•Lower self esteem
•Sexually active earlier
Extrinsic motivation in Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Salary, status, convenience (location, hours). Tend to find
life satisfaction outside of the job
Intrinsic motivation in Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Job provides creativity, productivity, offers some
challenges, gain self-esteem or respect
Piaget - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Formal Operations
•Thinking hypothetically and abstractly.
•Includes planning and logical thought.
Gardner - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔Multiple intelligence
•Interpersonal skills and Intrapersonal skills
•Reflect on our knowledge of others and ourselves
Erikson - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔•Intimacy versus isolation
•Finding and creating intimate relationship vs being alone
Maslow - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔self actualization
•Motivated towards self-fulfillment
- being the best we can be
Carl Rogers - Young Adults - ANS ✔✔- Conditions of worth -instilled by others, esp. parents
•Do this, don't do that, if you do this you are good, if you do this you are bad
•If we meet the conditions that are positive, we are praised and shown attention however, if we fail to
meet the conditions set we are shamed.
•Conditions are set for us in infancy and we hold to them throughout our lives with the behaviors we
engage in,
•If a person is made an example off, or ridiculed for doing something seen as bad behavior , then they
feel unworthy with no positive regard given externally.
- Unconditional positive regard
•involves showing complete support and acceptance of a person no matter what that person says or
does.
, Holland's Theory of Careers - ANS ✔✔•Individuals work best in jobs that match their interest and
personality
•Explore the types on individual and career track on page
•Match you characteristics with your career path
•Formulate the characteristics
for health care professionals.
Havinghurst: Developmental Model of the One Career Work Cycle - ANS ✔✔- Identify with a worker:
ages 5-10 years
•Working enters self concept through parents
- Develop the habits of industry: 10-15 yrs.
•Learn to organize time- work to give work a priority
- Acquiring an identity as a worker: 15-25 yrs.
•Choose occupation and begin to prepare for it
- Becoming a productive person: 25-40 yrs.
•Perfect skills for their occupation
- Maintaining a productive society: 40-70 yrs.
•High point of career
- Contemplating a productive and responsible life: >70 yrs.
•Retired look back on careers are they satisfied?
Midlife crisis - Levinson - seasons of life - ANS ✔✔•crisis model - changes in mid life are abrupt and
stressful
•earlier decision in life are questioned. Life patterns are reestablished
•Revolves around being young vs old, attached vs isolated
Midlife crisis - Rosenberg - transitions model - ANS ✔✔•Occur around specific events, death of a friend,
parent, sudden illness, unemployment, new job, divorce etc.
•Affect men and women differently. (stay at home mom, when last child leaves)
•Most people can adapt because they know these changes are coming. People plan for the transitions -
crisis are dealt with before they occur
•If situations are anticipated they are less likely to lead to a crisis
Climacteric - ANS ✔✔overall complex of physical and emotional effects that accompany hormonal
changes in middle adulthood
Female:
•Menopause in women ages 45-55
•3 different stages premenopause, perimenopause, and postmenopause.
•Physical changes
•Possible risk of heart disease
•Osteoporosis- bones get weaker
Males
- Climacteric Event
•Erectile issues
+ Related to cardiovascular disease
+ medications etc.
+Decrease in hormones
