CCMA
2024
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE 2025/2026
,Trust vs. Mistrust
Erikson's first stage during the first year of life, infants learn to trust when they are cared
for in a consistent warm manner
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Erikson's stage in which a toddler learns to exercise will and to do things independently;
failure to do so causes shame and doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
Erikson's third stage in which the child finds independence in planning, playing and
other activities
Industry vs. Inferiority
Erikson's stage between 6 and 11 years, when the child learns to be productive
identity vs. role confusion
Erikson's stage during which teenagers and young adults search for and become their
true selves
intimacy versus isolation
Erikson's sixth stage of development. Adults see someone with whom to share their
lives in an eduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk
profound aloneness and isolation.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Erikson's stage of social development in which middle-aged people begin to devote
themselves more to fulfilling one's potential and doing public service
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
(Erikson) People in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by
accepting the lives they have lived or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived
How many recognized mental illnesses are there?
Over 300
Depression
A prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness; managed by therapy
medication and lifestyle
ADHD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder chronic condition that typically begins in childhood
and attentive in which individual struggle to regulate attention and focus hyperactivity
and impulse can present as a constant fidgety, excessive talking and struggling to stay
quiet more common and boys
anxiety
Disorders that can lead to extreme feelings of ease, worry and fear to the point the
person's ability to function and respond typically in a situation is inhibited; uncontrolled
stress, fast, heart rate, sweating, and being consumed with worry; controlled by
medication, therapy, and lifestyle
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
, A Condition stemming from from an overwhelming experience or terrifying event;
intrusive memories, such as flashbacks, trouble, concentrating and sleeping,
self-destructive behaviors, and avoidance of people experiences associated with the
event; controlled by therapy and medication
Stressor
Anything that causes stress or anxiety
Environmental stressors
conditions or events in your physical environment that cause you stress; such as major
disasters, death of a loved one air pollution
Socioeconomic stressor
Stressors involving financial situations
Cycle of working and struggling to make ends meet, paying debts, unexpected
expenses, job loss, retirement, changes in economy, identity theft, lack of job security,
involuntary job loss, loss of home or vehicle, lack of health insurance
Americans with disability act
is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on an individual's disability if the
disabled person is able to perform the essential functions of the job.
defense mechanisms
in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
apathy
a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
compensation
Balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment
Denial
Avoidance of an unpleasant or anxiety, provoking situation, or ideas by rejecting them or
ignoring them
Displacement
psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a
more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward
a safer outlet
Disassociation
Disconnection from emotions of importance from the idea, events and
compartmentalizing
Projection
Transference of a person's unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something
else
Regression
Reversion to an earlier more childlike behavior
2024
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE 2025/2026
,Trust vs. Mistrust
Erikson's first stage during the first year of life, infants learn to trust when they are cared
for in a consistent warm manner
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Erikson's stage in which a toddler learns to exercise will and to do things independently;
failure to do so causes shame and doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
Erikson's third stage in which the child finds independence in planning, playing and
other activities
Industry vs. Inferiority
Erikson's stage between 6 and 11 years, when the child learns to be productive
identity vs. role confusion
Erikson's stage during which teenagers and young adults search for and become their
true selves
intimacy versus isolation
Erikson's sixth stage of development. Adults see someone with whom to share their
lives in an eduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk
profound aloneness and isolation.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Erikson's stage of social development in which middle-aged people begin to devote
themselves more to fulfilling one's potential and doing public service
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
(Erikson) People in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by
accepting the lives they have lived or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived
How many recognized mental illnesses are there?
Over 300
Depression
A prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness; managed by therapy
medication and lifestyle
ADHD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder chronic condition that typically begins in childhood
and attentive in which individual struggle to regulate attention and focus hyperactivity
and impulse can present as a constant fidgety, excessive talking and struggling to stay
quiet more common and boys
anxiety
Disorders that can lead to extreme feelings of ease, worry and fear to the point the
person's ability to function and respond typically in a situation is inhibited; uncontrolled
stress, fast, heart rate, sweating, and being consumed with worry; controlled by
medication, therapy, and lifestyle
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
, A Condition stemming from from an overwhelming experience or terrifying event;
intrusive memories, such as flashbacks, trouble, concentrating and sleeping,
self-destructive behaviors, and avoidance of people experiences associated with the
event; controlled by therapy and medication
Stressor
Anything that causes stress or anxiety
Environmental stressors
conditions or events in your physical environment that cause you stress; such as major
disasters, death of a loved one air pollution
Socioeconomic stressor
Stressors involving financial situations
Cycle of working and struggling to make ends meet, paying debts, unexpected
expenses, job loss, retirement, changes in economy, identity theft, lack of job security,
involuntary job loss, loss of home or vehicle, lack of health insurance
Americans with disability act
is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on an individual's disability if the
disabled person is able to perform the essential functions of the job.
defense mechanisms
in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
apathy
a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
compensation
Balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment
Denial
Avoidance of an unpleasant or anxiety, provoking situation, or ideas by rejecting them or
ignoring them
Displacement
psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a
more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward
a safer outlet
Disassociation
Disconnection from emotions of importance from the idea, events and
compartmentalizing
Projection
Transference of a person's unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something
else
Regression
Reversion to an earlier more childlike behavior
