NR 326-Mental Health Exam 1 Questions and
Answers 100% Correct 2025
Mental health -Correct Answers ✔-The successful adaptation to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced
by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent with
local and cultural norms.
Mental illness -Correct Answers ✔-Your mind's way of dealing w/stress in terms
of anxiety & grief in a negative or positive
way.
Anxiety -Correct Answers ✔-A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is
associated with feelings of uncertainty and
helplessness.
Mild anxiety -Correct Answers ✔-Type of anxiety that is seldom a problem;
learning is enhanced.
Moderate anxiety -Correct Answers ✔-Type of anxiety in which the perceptual
field diminishes
Severe anxiety -Correct Answers ✔-Type of anxiety where the perceptual fields
are so diminished that concentration centers on one detail only or on many
extraneous details
Panic anxiety -Correct Answers ✔-The most intense state of anxiety; learning can't
occur; unable to focus on even one detail.
MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS -Correct Answers ✔-1. Physiological
needs 2. Safety needs 3. Belongingness and love needs 4. Esteem needs 5. Self-
actualization needs
Compensation -Correct Answers ✔-Covering up a real or perceived weakness by
emphasizing a trait one considers more
desirable.
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Rationalization -Correct Answers ✔-Attempting to make excuses or formulate
logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings
or behaviors.
Denial -Correct Answers ✔-Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real
situation or the feelings associated with it.
Reaction formation** -Correct Answers ✔-Preventing unacceptable or undesirable
thoughts or behaviors from being expressed
by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
Displacement -Correct Answers ✔-The transfer of feelings from one target to
another that is considered less threatening or that
is neutral.
Regression -Correct Answers ✔-Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level
of development and the comfort measures
associated with that level of functioning.
Identification -Correct Answers ✔-An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring
certain attributes and characteristics of an
individual one admires.
Repression -Correct Answers ✔-Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and
experiences from one's awareness
Intellectualization -Correct Answers ✔-An attempt to avoid expressing actual
emotions associated with a stressful situation by
using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis.
Sublimation -Correct Answers ✔-Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are
personally or socially unacceptable into activities
that are constructive.
Introjection -Correct Answers ✔-Integrating the beliefs and values of another
individual into one's own ego structure.
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