Mental Health Exam 1
NUR2459/Rasmussen / Actual Questions &
Verified Answers / 2025/2026
Question Answer
Anhedonia Lack of pleasure
Mimics being drunk. Ex. Slurred speech,
Ataxia
stumbling, falling, and incoordination
Dysthymia Mild Depression of atleast 2 years
Thymia Chronic for 2 or more years
Anergia Lack of energy
Alogia Without speech
Loss of the ability to recognize objects, faces,
Agnosia
voices, or places
Avolition Lack of motivation
, Denial, repression, projection, regression,
displacement, and rationalization Freud's list
List the defense
includes: Acting out, avoidance, dissociation,
mechanisms
identification, intellectualization, isolation,
reaction formation, sublimation
The refusal of accepting/Not acknowledging the
Denial
problem
* Involuntary suppressing memory until it
disappears into the subconscious *Voluntary
Repression Suppression
blocking out unpleasant feelings and experiences
from awareness
Projection Forcing your beliefs or behavior on someone else.
the form of acting out of one's age. Ex. toddlers
Regression
act like an infant
Blaming or shifting emotions on other people or
things for their faults. /Showing emotion toward
Displacement
someone or something completely unrelated to
that which caused the emotion.
Making up explanations for something that has
Rationalization happened. /Making excuses to rationalize what
they did and why.
Acting out Behavioral outcome of conflict between an
NUR2459/Rasmussen / Actual Questions &
Verified Answers / 2025/2026
Question Answer
Anhedonia Lack of pleasure
Mimics being drunk. Ex. Slurred speech,
Ataxia
stumbling, falling, and incoordination
Dysthymia Mild Depression of atleast 2 years
Thymia Chronic for 2 or more years
Anergia Lack of energy
Alogia Without speech
Loss of the ability to recognize objects, faces,
Agnosia
voices, or places
Avolition Lack of motivation
, Denial, repression, projection, regression,
displacement, and rationalization Freud's list
List the defense
includes: Acting out, avoidance, dissociation,
mechanisms
identification, intellectualization, isolation,
reaction formation, sublimation
The refusal of accepting/Not acknowledging the
Denial
problem
* Involuntary suppressing memory until it
disappears into the subconscious *Voluntary
Repression Suppression
blocking out unpleasant feelings and experiences
from awareness
Projection Forcing your beliefs or behavior on someone else.
the form of acting out of one's age. Ex. toddlers
Regression
act like an infant
Blaming or shifting emotions on other people or
things for their faults. /Showing emotion toward
Displacement
someone or something completely unrelated to
that which caused the emotion.
Making up explanations for something that has
Rationalization happened. /Making excuses to rationalize what
they did and why.
Acting out Behavioral outcome of conflict between an
