ANCC PMHNP Exam review Questions and Correct
Answers 2025 Update
Piaget's Cognitive Theory
Stages: sensorimotor (object permanence), preoperational (magical thinking/language),
concrete operations (logic, reversibility), formal operations (formal, logical)
Henry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory
behavior is in respond to interpersonal dynamics. Stages: oral gratification/first anxiety, delayed
gratification, formation of peer relationships, same sex friendships, opposite sex relationships,
self-identity development
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
survival, safety/security, love, self-esteem, self-actualization
Health Belief Model
barriers to health promotion: perception of susceptibility, seriousness of illness, perceived
benefits of treatment, barriers to change, expectations of efficacy
Bandura's Self-Efficacy/Social Learning Theory
behavior is a result of cognitive and environmental factors, learned through observation/role-
modeling, efficacy predicts change/maintenance
Watson's Caring Theory
Caring is essential component of nursing
Frontal lobe
Frontal lobe: motor function, premotor area, association cortex (decision-making), executive
functions (memory, reasoning, planning, prioritizing, insight, flexibility, judgment, impulse
control, intelligence, abstraction), language (expressive), personality
, Temporal lobe
receptive language, memory, emotion, integration of vision/sensory info (damage results in A/V
hallucination, aphasia, amnesia)
Occipital lobe
visual cortex, integration of sensory info (damage results in visual hallucinations, blindness)
Parietal lobe
primary sensory data, taste, reading/writing (damage results in sensory disturbances, agnosia)
Cerebellum
processing of sensory info from thalamus, including speech/cognition, judgment, perception,
motor function, equilibrium (if damaged, atataxia, negative Rhomberg)
Limbic system
emotions, memory (hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala)
Hypothalamus
regulates appetite, thirst, libido, circadian rhythm, hormones
Thalamus
relays sensory info and affects emotions, memory, affective behaviors
Hippocampus
memory
Amygdala
regulates mood, fear, emotion, aggression
Basal ganglia/corpus striatum
Answers 2025 Update
Piaget's Cognitive Theory
Stages: sensorimotor (object permanence), preoperational (magical thinking/language),
concrete operations (logic, reversibility), formal operations (formal, logical)
Henry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory
behavior is in respond to interpersonal dynamics. Stages: oral gratification/first anxiety, delayed
gratification, formation of peer relationships, same sex friendships, opposite sex relationships,
self-identity development
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
survival, safety/security, love, self-esteem, self-actualization
Health Belief Model
barriers to health promotion: perception of susceptibility, seriousness of illness, perceived
benefits of treatment, barriers to change, expectations of efficacy
Bandura's Self-Efficacy/Social Learning Theory
behavior is a result of cognitive and environmental factors, learned through observation/role-
modeling, efficacy predicts change/maintenance
Watson's Caring Theory
Caring is essential component of nursing
Frontal lobe
Frontal lobe: motor function, premotor area, association cortex (decision-making), executive
functions (memory, reasoning, planning, prioritizing, insight, flexibility, judgment, impulse
control, intelligence, abstraction), language (expressive), personality
, Temporal lobe
receptive language, memory, emotion, integration of vision/sensory info (damage results in A/V
hallucination, aphasia, amnesia)
Occipital lobe
visual cortex, integration of sensory info (damage results in visual hallucinations, blindness)
Parietal lobe
primary sensory data, taste, reading/writing (damage results in sensory disturbances, agnosia)
Cerebellum
processing of sensory info from thalamus, including speech/cognition, judgment, perception,
motor function, equilibrium (if damaged, atataxia, negative Rhomberg)
Limbic system
emotions, memory (hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala)
Hypothalamus
regulates appetite, thirst, libido, circadian rhythm, hormones
Thalamus
relays sensory info and affects emotions, memory, affective behaviors
Hippocampus
memory
Amygdala
regulates mood, fear, emotion, aggression
Basal ganglia/corpus striatum
