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N244 Midterm Questions with Correct Answers
for a Specific Exam Mail
Altruism
Ans: Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others.
Sublimation
Ans: Dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by unconsciously
substituting acceptable forms of expression.
Suppression
Ans: Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings
Repression
Ans: Unconsciously putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out
of awareness
Displacement
Ans: Shifting feelings related to an object, person, or situation to another less
threatening object, person, or situation
Reaction Formation
Ans: Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is
felt
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Undoing
Ans: Performing an act to make up for prior behavior
Rationalization
Ans: Creating reasonable and acceptable explanations for unacceptable
behavior
Denial
Ans: Pretending the truth is not reality to manage the anxiety of
acknowledging what is real
Intellectualization
Ans: Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from the facts
involved; acknowledging the facts but not the emotions
Conversion
Ans: Responding to stress through the unconscious development of physical
manifestations not caused by a physical illness
Splitting
Ans: Inability to reconcile negative and positive attributes of self or others
Projection
Ans: Attributing one's unacceptable thoughts and feelings onto another who
does not have them
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Always Send Mail Through the Post Office
Ans: Appearance (unkept/disheveled)
Speech (pressured)
Memory/Mood (labile)
Thoughts (tangential, flight of ideas, circumstantial, loose association)
Thoughts of self harm
Perception (delusions/hallucinations)
Orientation
Maximum legal limits for seclusion and restraints
Ans: 18+: 4 hours
9-17: 2 hours
8 and younger: 1 hour
Maslow's Heirarchy
Ans: Physiological
Safety/security
Love and belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Ans: Focuses on thoughts and behaviors to solve current problems. How
thoughts and behaviors are related to each other. Good for depression,
anxiety, and eating disorders.
Dialetical behavior therapy
Pretest - Stuvia US
N244 Midterm Questions with Correct Answers
for a Specific Exam Mail
Altruism
Ans: Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others.
Sublimation
Ans: Dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by unconsciously
substituting acceptable forms of expression.
Suppression
Ans: Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings
Repression
Ans: Unconsciously putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out
of awareness
Displacement
Ans: Shifting feelings related to an object, person, or situation to another less
threatening object, person, or situation
Reaction Formation
Ans: Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is
felt
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Undoing
Ans: Performing an act to make up for prior behavior
Rationalization
Ans: Creating reasonable and acceptable explanations for unacceptable
behavior
Denial
Ans: Pretending the truth is not reality to manage the anxiety of
acknowledging what is real
Intellectualization
Ans: Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from the facts
involved; acknowledging the facts but not the emotions
Conversion
Ans: Responding to stress through the unconscious development of physical
manifestations not caused by a physical illness
Splitting
Ans: Inability to reconcile negative and positive attributes of self or others
Projection
Ans: Attributing one's unacceptable thoughts and feelings onto another who
does not have them
Pretest - Stuvia US
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Always Send Mail Through the Post Office
Ans: Appearance (unkept/disheveled)
Speech (pressured)
Memory/Mood (labile)
Thoughts (tangential, flight of ideas, circumstantial, loose association)
Thoughts of self harm
Perception (delusions/hallucinations)
Orientation
Maximum legal limits for seclusion and restraints
Ans: 18+: 4 hours
9-17: 2 hours
8 and younger: 1 hour
Maslow's Heirarchy
Ans: Physiological
Safety/security
Love and belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Ans: Focuses on thoughts and behaviors to solve current problems. How
thoughts and behaviors are related to each other. Good for depression,
anxiety, and eating disorders.
Dialetical behavior therapy
Pretest - Stuvia US
