NUR 252: Mental Health Exam 1 Test
Questions And 100% Correct Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Mental Health attributes: (14) - Answer 1. Accurate appraisal of reality
2. Effective in work/productive
3. Healthy self concept
4. Satisfying relationships
5. Effective coping
6. Happiness/joy/laugh
7. Control of behavior
8. Able to deal with conflicting emotions
9. Live w/o fear, guilt, anxiety
10. Ability to take responsibility for one's own actions
11. Think clearly
12. Relate to others (relationships, empathy)
13. Attain self-defined spirituality
14. Negotiate each developmental task
Resiliency:
1. define
2. T or F: can be developed - Answer 1. ability to recover or adjust successfully to trauma or
change
2. true
Factors affecting mental health: (15) - Answer 1. Biological
2. Hormones
3. Genetics
4. spirituality
5. Religion & Culture
6. Regional differences
7. Support systems: Family/Friends/community
8. Personal traits
9. Health practices/beliefs
10. Enviro experiences
,11. Negative influences
12. psychosocial stressors
13. Poverty
14. Impaired parenting
15. Developmental events
Explain Mind-body dualism - Answer What affects the body, affects the mind and what
affects the mind, affects the body
Culture:
1. why is it important for culture to be considered when assessing mental health?
2. cultural misunderstanding leads to... - Answer 1. Bc it affects the expression of symptoms,
specific practices/norms considered normal in their culture
2. distrust of healthcare staff
T or F: stigma is a major barrier to mental health tx & recovery and negatively affects the
individual and family (How?) - Answer True
By discrimination, labeling, social isolation, reduced opportunities (housing, jobs)
What is the purpose of the DSM-5? - Answer Helps diagnose mental health illnesses through
criteria ; culturally competent
T or F:
1. Metal health is fundamental to health
2. Mental disorders are real health conditions that greatly impact individuals and families
3. The efficacy of mental health tx is well documented
4. A range of Tx exists for most mental disorders - Answer All true
T or f: most psychotropics act by either increasing or decreasing activity of certain NTs-receptor
systems - Answer True
Psychiatric illness results in an alteration in... (Hint: targets of psychotropic medications) -
Answer neurotransmitters
Name the monoamine neurotransmitters - Answer Dopamin, NE, serotonin, Histamine
Dopamine:
,1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in decision making, cognition, motivation,
emotions/rewards/pleasure; movement, stimulates hypothalamus to release hormones, can
stimulate heart
2. Depression, Parkinson's
3. Schizophrenia, Mania/Psychosis, cocaine use
Extrapyramidal SE are the result of... - Answer dopamine blocking
Norepinephrine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in mood, attention & arousal; stimulates SNS & alpha-1
receptors
2. Depression
3. Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia
Serotonin:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in regulating behavior/mood, attention, sleep, arousal,
hunger, pain perception, libido & hormonal activity
2. Depression
3. Anxiety
Histamine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved with regulating alertness, inflammatory response,
gastric secretions
2. Sedation, Wt. gain
3. Anxiety, depression
GABA:
1. function
, 2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Inhibitory functions; role in pain perception, anticonvulsant with
muscle relaxing properties; may impair cognition & psychomotor fxn; suppresses dopamine
2. Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia
3. Relaxation
Glutamate:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Excitatory; involved with memory & learning
2. decreased NMDA: psychosis
3. Increased NMDA: Alzheimer's; increased AMPA: improvement in cognitive performance
Acetylcholine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Balances dopamine, skeletal muscle movement, arousal,
memory & learning, sleep/wake, regulates mood, stimulates PNS
2. AD, PD, Huntington's chorea
3. Depression
Most psychotropic medications affect which area of the brain? - Answer Frontal lobe because
last to finish developing & highly involved in cognition
Limbic system: fxns
1. Hippocampus
2. Amygdala
3. Hypothalamus
4. Thalamus - Answer 1. making new memories
2. process fear and anxiety
3. Homeostasis: SNS/PNS stimulation; temp, perspiration, bp, libido, hunger, thirst, circadian
rhythm); CRH > corticotropin > cortisol
4. filters sensory info before it reaches cerebral cortex
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Questions And 100% Correct Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Mental Health attributes: (14) - Answer 1. Accurate appraisal of reality
2. Effective in work/productive
3. Healthy self concept
4. Satisfying relationships
5. Effective coping
6. Happiness/joy/laugh
7. Control of behavior
8. Able to deal with conflicting emotions
9. Live w/o fear, guilt, anxiety
10. Ability to take responsibility for one's own actions
11. Think clearly
12. Relate to others (relationships, empathy)
13. Attain self-defined spirituality
14. Negotiate each developmental task
Resiliency:
1. define
2. T or F: can be developed - Answer 1. ability to recover or adjust successfully to trauma or
change
2. true
Factors affecting mental health: (15) - Answer 1. Biological
2. Hormones
3. Genetics
4. spirituality
5. Religion & Culture
6. Regional differences
7. Support systems: Family/Friends/community
8. Personal traits
9. Health practices/beliefs
10. Enviro experiences
,11. Negative influences
12. psychosocial stressors
13. Poverty
14. Impaired parenting
15. Developmental events
Explain Mind-body dualism - Answer What affects the body, affects the mind and what
affects the mind, affects the body
Culture:
1. why is it important for culture to be considered when assessing mental health?
2. cultural misunderstanding leads to... - Answer 1. Bc it affects the expression of symptoms,
specific practices/norms considered normal in their culture
2. distrust of healthcare staff
T or F: stigma is a major barrier to mental health tx & recovery and negatively affects the
individual and family (How?) - Answer True
By discrimination, labeling, social isolation, reduced opportunities (housing, jobs)
What is the purpose of the DSM-5? - Answer Helps diagnose mental health illnesses through
criteria ; culturally competent
T or F:
1. Metal health is fundamental to health
2. Mental disorders are real health conditions that greatly impact individuals and families
3. The efficacy of mental health tx is well documented
4. A range of Tx exists for most mental disorders - Answer All true
T or f: most psychotropics act by either increasing or decreasing activity of certain NTs-receptor
systems - Answer True
Psychiatric illness results in an alteration in... (Hint: targets of psychotropic medications) -
Answer neurotransmitters
Name the monoamine neurotransmitters - Answer Dopamin, NE, serotonin, Histamine
Dopamine:
,1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in decision making, cognition, motivation,
emotions/rewards/pleasure; movement, stimulates hypothalamus to release hormones, can
stimulate heart
2. Depression, Parkinson's
3. Schizophrenia, Mania/Psychosis, cocaine use
Extrapyramidal SE are the result of... - Answer dopamine blocking
Norepinephrine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in mood, attention & arousal; stimulates SNS & alpha-1
receptors
2. Depression
3. Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia
Serotonin:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved in regulating behavior/mood, attention, sleep, arousal,
hunger, pain perception, libido & hormonal activity
2. Depression
3. Anxiety
Histamine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Involved with regulating alertness, inflammatory response,
gastric secretions
2. Sedation, Wt. gain
3. Anxiety, depression
GABA:
1. function
, 2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Inhibitory functions; role in pain perception, anticonvulsant with
muscle relaxing properties; may impair cognition & psychomotor fxn; suppresses dopamine
2. Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia
3. Relaxation
Glutamate:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Excitatory; involved with memory & learning
2. decreased NMDA: psychosis
3. Increased NMDA: Alzheimer's; increased AMPA: improvement in cognitive performance
Acetylcholine:
1. function
2. Decreased in...
3. Increased in... - Answer 1. Balances dopamine, skeletal muscle movement, arousal,
memory & learning, sleep/wake, regulates mood, stimulates PNS
2. AD, PD, Huntington's chorea
3. Depression
Most psychotropic medications affect which area of the brain? - Answer Frontal lobe because
last to finish developing & highly involved in cognition
Limbic system: fxns
1. Hippocampus
2. Amygdala
3. Hypothalamus
4. Thalamus - Answer 1. making new memories
2. process fear and anxiety
3. Homeostasis: SNS/PNS stimulation; temp, perspiration, bp, libido, hunger, thirst, circadian
rhythm); CRH > corticotropin > cortisol
4. filters sensory info before it reaches cerebral cortex
Compare
1. Eustress
