NSG 250 EXAM 3 | COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
imaginary audience - correct answer ✔✔adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's
attention and concern
personal fables - correct answer ✔✔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
social referencing group - correct answer ✔✔narrowly or broadly defined groups with which people
identify with, and in doing so, help define themselves
social comparison - correct answer ✔✔the process of evaluating oneself and one's situation relative to
others
self-regulation - correct answer ✔✔in adolescents, making one's judgement and regulating one's own
behavior
rite of passage - correct answer ✔✔symbolic events or rituals to mark life transitions, such as from
childhood to adult status
-ex:
tanner scale - correct answer ✔✔uses physical measurements to define development on external
primary and secondary characteristics
puberty - correct answer ✔✔the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of
reproducing
menarche - correct answer ✔✔the first menstrual period
female sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔primary- hormone production, pituitary> signals adrenal
gland> produces androgen and hypothalamus; estrogen and progesterone
secondary- menarche
male sex characterstics - correct answer ✔✔primary- hormone production, pituitary> signals adrenal
gland> produces androgen and hypothalamus; androgens> testosterone
secondary- spermarche, enlargement of sexual organs
reproductive hormones - correct answer ✔✔testosterone and estrogen
adolescent risk taking - correct answer ✔✔rapid physical, cognitive, and emotional changes making
adolescents at a higher risk
ex of risk taking behaviors: Substances, Sexual, driving
amygdala crisis - correct answer ✔✔(emotional regulation) This region of the brain is associated with
stimulus-seeking behavior, causes them to make bad decisions
, second neural pruning - correct answer ✔✔Myelinization and pruning begin in the later middle
childhood and complete in late adolescence.
•Progression of myelination and pruning
•the back of the brain (sensory function)-early process
•Pruning and myelination to the section of the brain involved in coordination
•Final progression(late adolescence) is in the pre-frontal cortex involved with complex mental functions
prefrontal cortex - correct answer ✔✔part of frontal lobe responsible for thinking, planning, and
language
formal operational thinking - correct answer ✔✔Ability to think in more complex ways
Abstract
•Speculative
•Independent of environment and circumstance
•Ability to hypothesize
•Ability to plan and think ahead
secular trends - correct answer ✔✔patterns of the onset of puberty over historical time, especially
across generations
physical domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔-rapid growth spurt
-males become stronger
-females become more flexible and coordinated
-boys tend to be 2 years behind girls
cognitive domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔Gray matter decrease, white matter increase
Adolescence is the stage of the most intense pruning
Pruning levels off at about age 25 years.
Increased myelin coating for better transmission
psychosocial domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔peers- crowds, gangs, Cliques
Start dating, risk taking behaviors
Mental health issues
identity v identity confusion - correct answer ✔✔Fifth stage of ego according to Erikson, adolescents
explore their independence and develop a sense of self
Characteristics of high risk behavior and resilient adolescents - correct answer ✔✔Trying to be
independent even when they still being cared for, Drinking alcohol, doing drugs, reckless driving
family dynamics - correct answer ✔✔Adolescents become more mature and look for more
independence, tend to be many ups and downs, it id important family is stable and supportive
diffusion status - correct answer ✔✔identity status characterizing individuals who have not questioned
who they are and have not committed themselves to an identity
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
imaginary audience - correct answer ✔✔adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's
attention and concern
personal fables - correct answer ✔✔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
social referencing group - correct answer ✔✔narrowly or broadly defined groups with which people
identify with, and in doing so, help define themselves
social comparison - correct answer ✔✔the process of evaluating oneself and one's situation relative to
others
self-regulation - correct answer ✔✔in adolescents, making one's judgement and regulating one's own
behavior
rite of passage - correct answer ✔✔symbolic events or rituals to mark life transitions, such as from
childhood to adult status
-ex:
tanner scale - correct answer ✔✔uses physical measurements to define development on external
primary and secondary characteristics
puberty - correct answer ✔✔the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of
reproducing
menarche - correct answer ✔✔the first menstrual period
female sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔primary- hormone production, pituitary> signals adrenal
gland> produces androgen and hypothalamus; estrogen and progesterone
secondary- menarche
male sex characterstics - correct answer ✔✔primary- hormone production, pituitary> signals adrenal
gland> produces androgen and hypothalamus; androgens> testosterone
secondary- spermarche, enlargement of sexual organs
reproductive hormones - correct answer ✔✔testosterone and estrogen
adolescent risk taking - correct answer ✔✔rapid physical, cognitive, and emotional changes making
adolescents at a higher risk
ex of risk taking behaviors: Substances, Sexual, driving
amygdala crisis - correct answer ✔✔(emotional regulation) This region of the brain is associated with
stimulus-seeking behavior, causes them to make bad decisions
, second neural pruning - correct answer ✔✔Myelinization and pruning begin in the later middle
childhood and complete in late adolescence.
•Progression of myelination and pruning
•the back of the brain (sensory function)-early process
•Pruning and myelination to the section of the brain involved in coordination
•Final progression(late adolescence) is in the pre-frontal cortex involved with complex mental functions
prefrontal cortex - correct answer ✔✔part of frontal lobe responsible for thinking, planning, and
language
formal operational thinking - correct answer ✔✔Ability to think in more complex ways
Abstract
•Speculative
•Independent of environment and circumstance
•Ability to hypothesize
•Ability to plan and think ahead
secular trends - correct answer ✔✔patterns of the onset of puberty over historical time, especially
across generations
physical domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔-rapid growth spurt
-males become stronger
-females become more flexible and coordinated
-boys tend to be 2 years behind girls
cognitive domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔Gray matter decrease, white matter increase
Adolescence is the stage of the most intense pruning
Pruning levels off at about age 25 years.
Increased myelin coating for better transmission
psychosocial domain (adolescence) - correct answer ✔✔peers- crowds, gangs, Cliques
Start dating, risk taking behaviors
Mental health issues
identity v identity confusion - correct answer ✔✔Fifth stage of ego according to Erikson, adolescents
explore their independence and develop a sense of self
Characteristics of high risk behavior and resilient adolescents - correct answer ✔✔Trying to be
independent even when they still being cared for, Drinking alcohol, doing drugs, reckless driving
family dynamics - correct answer ✔✔Adolescents become more mature and look for more
independence, tend to be many ups and downs, it id important family is stable and supportive
diffusion status - correct answer ✔✔identity status characterizing individuals who have not questioned
who they are and have not committed themselves to an identity
