FITZGERALD PMHNP EXAMINATION SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Attachment theory
Mary Ainsworth
Insecure-avoidant:
Insecure-ambivalent:
Insecure-disorganized: - ✔✔John Bowlby
Mary Ainsworth
- Parents aggressive, child avoids
- Clings to inconsistent parents, has trouble exploring
- emotionally absent parents, the child behaves in bizarre way when threatened.
the idea that early attachments with parents and other caregivers can shape
relationships for a person's whole life
✔✔Freud's Psychosexual Stages - ✔✔1. Oral Stage
2. Anal Stage
3. Phallic Stage
4. Latency Stage
5. Genital Stage
✔✔Chapter 4 NeuroScience - ✔✔
✔✔Neural plasticity or neuroplasticity
,Synaptic Pruning: - ✔✔The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural
connections throughout life.
In Adolescence synapses that are relevant persist, refining the efficiency of the brain.
✔✔brainstem function
Cerebellum function - ✔✔consists of medulla, pons, and midbrain
origin of most cranial nerves, contains reticular formation (important for arousal, sleep-
wake cycles), location of respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive control centers
process and store information, coordinates voluntary movements (posture, balance,
speech)
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Regulates basic powerful emotions,: Fear, rage, sexual desire.
two lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion.
✔✔Hippocampus - ✔✔short-term memory into long-term memory, learning
Seeing a hippo on campus whould be in short tierm and then go to long term memory.
✔✔Thalamus - ✔✔the brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem; it
directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to
the cerebellum and medulla
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔a neural structure lying below the thalamus; directs eating,
drinking, body temperature; helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland,
and is linked to emotion
✔✔Cerebral Cortex functions
Frontal Lobe:
Parietal Lobe:
Occipital Lobe:
Temporal Lobe: - ✔✔Executive Functioning has Motor strip, Supplemental motor area,
Broca's area, Prefrontal cortex
- Recieves and evaluates sensory information.
- Vision and visual memory, language formation
, - Recieves and processes auditory information.
✔✔Dopamine:
Norepinephrine:
Serotonin:
Histamine:
Glutamate
GABA:
Acetylcholine: - ✔✔DOPAMINE
Pathways: Nigro, Tub, Mesolimbic, mesocortical
✔✔Chapter 5 Psychiatric Assessment - ✔✔
✔✔CHAMPION FISH CALLER - ✔✔C hief Complaint
H ow Can We Help?
A llergies
M edications
P ast History
I deation
O rientation
N arcotics and
Substances
F amily
I ncome
S ocial Support
H ousing
C ollateral
A buse
L egal
L eaving
E xamination
R eview of Systems
✔✔Clues to a medical disorder - ✔✔-Later age onset
-Known underlying medical condition
-Atypical presentation of psychiatric condition
-Absence of personal or family history of a psychiatric condition
-Poor response to usual treatment
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Attachment theory
Mary Ainsworth
Insecure-avoidant:
Insecure-ambivalent:
Insecure-disorganized: - ✔✔John Bowlby
Mary Ainsworth
- Parents aggressive, child avoids
- Clings to inconsistent parents, has trouble exploring
- emotionally absent parents, the child behaves in bizarre way when threatened.
the idea that early attachments with parents and other caregivers can shape
relationships for a person's whole life
✔✔Freud's Psychosexual Stages - ✔✔1. Oral Stage
2. Anal Stage
3. Phallic Stage
4. Latency Stage
5. Genital Stage
✔✔Chapter 4 NeuroScience - ✔✔
✔✔Neural plasticity or neuroplasticity
,Synaptic Pruning: - ✔✔The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural
connections throughout life.
In Adolescence synapses that are relevant persist, refining the efficiency of the brain.
✔✔brainstem function
Cerebellum function - ✔✔consists of medulla, pons, and midbrain
origin of most cranial nerves, contains reticular formation (important for arousal, sleep-
wake cycles), location of respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive control centers
process and store information, coordinates voluntary movements (posture, balance,
speech)
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Regulates basic powerful emotions,: Fear, rage, sexual desire.
two lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion.
✔✔Hippocampus - ✔✔short-term memory into long-term memory, learning
Seeing a hippo on campus whould be in short tierm and then go to long term memory.
✔✔Thalamus - ✔✔the brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem; it
directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to
the cerebellum and medulla
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔a neural structure lying below the thalamus; directs eating,
drinking, body temperature; helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland,
and is linked to emotion
✔✔Cerebral Cortex functions
Frontal Lobe:
Parietal Lobe:
Occipital Lobe:
Temporal Lobe: - ✔✔Executive Functioning has Motor strip, Supplemental motor area,
Broca's area, Prefrontal cortex
- Recieves and evaluates sensory information.
- Vision and visual memory, language formation
, - Recieves and processes auditory information.
✔✔Dopamine:
Norepinephrine:
Serotonin:
Histamine:
Glutamate
GABA:
Acetylcholine: - ✔✔DOPAMINE
Pathways: Nigro, Tub, Mesolimbic, mesocortical
✔✔Chapter 5 Psychiatric Assessment - ✔✔
✔✔CHAMPION FISH CALLER - ✔✔C hief Complaint
H ow Can We Help?
A llergies
M edications
P ast History
I deation
O rientation
N arcotics and
Substances
F amily
I ncome
S ocial Support
H ousing
C ollateral
A buse
L egal
L eaving
E xamination
R eview of Systems
✔✔Clues to a medical disorder - ✔✔-Later age onset
-Known underlying medical condition
-Atypical presentation of psychiatric condition
-Absence of personal or family history of a psychiatric condition
-Poor response to usual treatment
