GEORGETTE REVIEW PMHNP ACTUAL
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ Fidelity: Answer: Being true and loyal
⫸ Transference and countertransference Answer: Transference:
Displacement of feelings for significant people in the client's past
onto the PMHNP in the present relationship
Countertransference: The nurse's emotional reaction to the client based
on her
or his past experiences
⫸ idiosyncratic reaction Answer: an unusual and unpredictable adverse
drug reaction that occurs in a small number of people and is not a
common, dose-dependent side effect
⫸ Schizophreniform Disorder Answer: a short-term mental health
condition characterized by the same psychotic symptoms as
schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized
thinking, but lasting for more than one month but less than six months
⫸ Repression Answer: Unconscious exclusion of unwanted, disturbing
emotions,
,thoughts, or impulses from conscious awareness
⫸ Suppression Answer: Conscious analog of repression; conscious
denial of a disturbing
situation, feeling, or event
⫸ Sublimation Answer: Unconscious process of substitution of socially
acceptable,
constructive activity for strong unacceptable impulse
⫸ Sensorimotor (Birth-2 years) Answer: The critical achievement of
this stage is object
permanence: the ability to understand that objects have an existence
independent of the child's involvement with them
⫸ Preoperational (2-7 years) Answer: More extensive use of language
and symbolism;
magical thinking
⫸ Concrete Operations (7-12 years): Answer: Child begins to use logic;
develops
concepts of reversibility and conservation:
Reversibility: The realization that one thing can turn into another and
,back again (e.g., water and ice)
Conservation: Ability to recognize that although the shape of an object
may change, it will still maintain characteristics that enable it to be
recognized as that object (e.g., clay)
⫸ Formal Operations (12 years-adult): Answer: Ability to think
abstractly; thinking
operates in a formal, logical manner
⫸ In Transtheoretical Model of Change:
The Precontemplation stage means Answer: The person has no intention
to change.
⫸ Internal validity: Answer: The independent variable (the treatment)
caused a change in the
dependent variable (the outcome)
⫸ External validity: Answer: The sample is representative of the
population and the results
can be generalized
⫸ Mean: Average of scores Answer: Standard deviation: Indication of
the possible deviations from the mean
, ⫸ P Value Answer: Also known as level of significance; describes the
probability
of a particular result occurring by chance alone (if P = .01, there is a 1%
probability of obtaining a result by chance alone
⫸ Frontal Lobe Answer: A region of the cerebral cortex that has
specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory,
and judgement
contains: Language (Broca's area): Expressive speech
⫸ Temporal lobe; functions include: Answer: Language (Wernicke's
area): Receptive speech or language
comprehension
⫸ Basal ganglia: Also known as the corpus striatum
XServes as a complex feedback system to modulate and stabilize
somatic
motor activity (information conveyed from the CNS to skeletal muscles)
Answer: Problems in the basal ganglia can lead to bradykinesia,
hyperkinesias, and
dystonia.
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ Fidelity: Answer: Being true and loyal
⫸ Transference and countertransference Answer: Transference:
Displacement of feelings for significant people in the client's past
onto the PMHNP in the present relationship
Countertransference: The nurse's emotional reaction to the client based
on her
or his past experiences
⫸ idiosyncratic reaction Answer: an unusual and unpredictable adverse
drug reaction that occurs in a small number of people and is not a
common, dose-dependent side effect
⫸ Schizophreniform Disorder Answer: a short-term mental health
condition characterized by the same psychotic symptoms as
schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized
thinking, but lasting for more than one month but less than six months
⫸ Repression Answer: Unconscious exclusion of unwanted, disturbing
emotions,
,thoughts, or impulses from conscious awareness
⫸ Suppression Answer: Conscious analog of repression; conscious
denial of a disturbing
situation, feeling, or event
⫸ Sublimation Answer: Unconscious process of substitution of socially
acceptable,
constructive activity for strong unacceptable impulse
⫸ Sensorimotor (Birth-2 years) Answer: The critical achievement of
this stage is object
permanence: the ability to understand that objects have an existence
independent of the child's involvement with them
⫸ Preoperational (2-7 years) Answer: More extensive use of language
and symbolism;
magical thinking
⫸ Concrete Operations (7-12 years): Answer: Child begins to use logic;
develops
concepts of reversibility and conservation:
Reversibility: The realization that one thing can turn into another and
,back again (e.g., water and ice)
Conservation: Ability to recognize that although the shape of an object
may change, it will still maintain characteristics that enable it to be
recognized as that object (e.g., clay)
⫸ Formal Operations (12 years-adult): Answer: Ability to think
abstractly; thinking
operates in a formal, logical manner
⫸ In Transtheoretical Model of Change:
The Precontemplation stage means Answer: The person has no intention
to change.
⫸ Internal validity: Answer: The independent variable (the treatment)
caused a change in the
dependent variable (the outcome)
⫸ External validity: Answer: The sample is representative of the
population and the results
can be generalized
⫸ Mean: Average of scores Answer: Standard deviation: Indication of
the possible deviations from the mean
, ⫸ P Value Answer: Also known as level of significance; describes the
probability
of a particular result occurring by chance alone (if P = .01, there is a 1%
probability of obtaining a result by chance alone
⫸ Frontal Lobe Answer: A region of the cerebral cortex that has
specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory,
and judgement
contains: Language (Broca's area): Expressive speech
⫸ Temporal lobe; functions include: Answer: Language (Wernicke's
area): Receptive speech or language
comprehension
⫸ Basal ganglia: Also known as the corpus striatum
XServes as a complex feedback system to modulate and stabilize
somatic
motor activity (information conveyed from the CNS to skeletal muscles)
Answer: Problems in the basal ganglia can lead to bradykinesia,
hyperkinesias, and
dystonia.
