ANCC study guide: theory Exam
Questions and Answers Latest
2025/2026 GRADED A
a. What is countertransference?
b. Give examples
c. how is it solved - CORRECT ANSWER-a. emotional reactions of the provider to the
client based on past experiences
b. anxious, let client stay longer or less times, have dreams, intense reactions,
resistance to others treating client
c. SUPERVISION - peer to peer
a. What is the most important goal of the biopsychosocial framework?
b. What are the dimensions of this concept above? - CORRECT ANSWER-a. recovery
b. health, home, purpose, community
Acronym for Erikson's stages and describe one word description of virtues associated
with each stage - CORRECT ANSWER-TAIIIIGD
1. trust vs. mistrust - hope
2. autonomy vs. shame/doubt - will
3. initiative vs. guilt - purpose
4. industry vs. inferiority - competence
5. identity vs role confusion - fidelity
6. intimacy vs. isolation - love
7. generatively vs. stagnation - care
, 8. despair vs integrity - wisdom
Describe each of Freud's psychosexual stages - CORRECT ANSWER-OAPIG - "Oh A
Pig"
1. Oral (0-1) = sucking/feeding - SCZ, substance abuse/paranoia
2. Anal (1-3) = sphincter control - depression or anal rentnentive = obsessive
(OCD)/clean or anal expulsive = messy
3. Phallic (3-6) = exhibitionism, masturabation with oedipal focus, castration anxiety,
female fear of lost maternal love - sexual identity disorders
4. Latency (6-puberty) = peers relationships, learning, socialization - inability to form
social relationships
5. Genital (puberty forward) = integration of behaviors from earlier stages, primary
genital based sexuality - sexual perversion disorders
Describe each stage of Erikson's - CORRECT ANSWER-1. trust vs mistrust =
trusting/meaningful relationships vs suspicion/no hope
2. autonomy vs shame/doubt = self-control/willpower/esteem vs lack of
independence/poor self control
3. initiative vs guilt = sense of purpose/self-directed behavior/goal formation vs lack of
goals
4. industry vs inferiority = sense of competency/achievement vs difficulty with
working/learning
5. identity vs role confusion = personal sense of identity vs poor identification in group
setting
6. intimacy vs isolation = committed realtionships/love vs emotional
isolation/egocentricism
7. generatively vs stagnation = gives time and talents to others/cares for others vs. self
absorption/inability to grow/change as a person
8. integrity vs despair = fulfillment/comfort with life/insight and balanced perspective
on life/willingness to face death vs bitterness/dissatisfaction/despair over impending
death
Questions and Answers Latest
2025/2026 GRADED A
a. What is countertransference?
b. Give examples
c. how is it solved - CORRECT ANSWER-a. emotional reactions of the provider to the
client based on past experiences
b. anxious, let client stay longer or less times, have dreams, intense reactions,
resistance to others treating client
c. SUPERVISION - peer to peer
a. What is the most important goal of the biopsychosocial framework?
b. What are the dimensions of this concept above? - CORRECT ANSWER-a. recovery
b. health, home, purpose, community
Acronym for Erikson's stages and describe one word description of virtues associated
with each stage - CORRECT ANSWER-TAIIIIGD
1. trust vs. mistrust - hope
2. autonomy vs. shame/doubt - will
3. initiative vs. guilt - purpose
4. industry vs. inferiority - competence
5. identity vs role confusion - fidelity
6. intimacy vs. isolation - love
7. generatively vs. stagnation - care
, 8. despair vs integrity - wisdom
Describe each of Freud's psychosexual stages - CORRECT ANSWER-OAPIG - "Oh A
Pig"
1. Oral (0-1) = sucking/feeding - SCZ, substance abuse/paranoia
2. Anal (1-3) = sphincter control - depression or anal rentnentive = obsessive
(OCD)/clean or anal expulsive = messy
3. Phallic (3-6) = exhibitionism, masturabation with oedipal focus, castration anxiety,
female fear of lost maternal love - sexual identity disorders
4. Latency (6-puberty) = peers relationships, learning, socialization - inability to form
social relationships
5. Genital (puberty forward) = integration of behaviors from earlier stages, primary
genital based sexuality - sexual perversion disorders
Describe each stage of Erikson's - CORRECT ANSWER-1. trust vs mistrust =
trusting/meaningful relationships vs suspicion/no hope
2. autonomy vs shame/doubt = self-control/willpower/esteem vs lack of
independence/poor self control
3. initiative vs guilt = sense of purpose/self-directed behavior/goal formation vs lack of
goals
4. industry vs inferiority = sense of competency/achievement vs difficulty with
working/learning
5. identity vs role confusion = personal sense of identity vs poor identification in group
setting
6. intimacy vs isolation = committed realtionships/love vs emotional
isolation/egocentricism
7. generatively vs stagnation = gives time and talents to others/cares for others vs. self
absorption/inability to grow/change as a person
8. integrity vs despair = fulfillment/comfort with life/insight and balanced perspective
on life/willingness to face death vs bitterness/dissatisfaction/despair over impending
death
