Pmhnp Mandatory Revision Questions and Correct Answers 2024

Amygdala - A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion, particularly fear and aggression. Also plays a part in pleasure circuit and drug dependency. accumbens nucleus - is a brain part involved in functions such as REWARD, motivation, addiction or positive behavioral reinforcement prefrontal cortex - part of frontal lobe responsible for thinking and language hippocampus - Part of Limbic system is associated mainly with memory, in particular long-term memory as well as mood hypnogogic - relating to the state immediately before falling asleep. hypnogogic hallucinations - dream-like auditory or visual experiences while dozing or falling asleep hypnopompic - relating to the state immediately preceding waking up sublimation (defense mechanism) - - Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive. EX: Mom of son killed by drunk driver, president of MADD. Introjection: Defense Mechanism - -a coping mechanism when we take on attributes of other people who seem better able to cope with the situation than we do. EX: Children integrate their parents value system into the process of conscience formation. displacement (defense mechanism) - - The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral. EX: A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse. Intellectualization Defense Mechanism - - An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual process of logic, reasoning and analysis. Undoing: Defense Mechanism - - Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable. -person tries to cancel out or remove an unhealthy, destructive or otherwise threatening thought or action by engaging in contrary behavior EX: Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way home he stops and buys her flowers. For example, after thinking about being violent with someone, one would then be overly nice or accommodating to them. Compensation : Defense Mechanism - overachieve in one area to compensate for failures in another. making up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another area