NUR 314 Final Exam Questions and All
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Edition.
Mental illness - Answer all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
Mental health - Answer a state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or
her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a
contribution to the community
Contributing factors to mental health - Answer Resilience (individual attributes and behaviors),
Social and economic circumstances, environmental factors (cultures, etc.)
Social Influences on mental health care - Answer Consumer Movement and Mental Health
Recovery
Components of Recovery - Answer Hope, person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer-
supported, relationships and social networks, culturally based and influenced, addresses
trauma, strengths and responsibility, respect
Decade of the Brain - Answer 1990s
Epidemiology - Answer Helps ID high risk groups-understanding
Incidence - Answer number of new cases
prevalence - Answer total number of new and existing
Classification of mental illness - Answer diagnostic and statistical classification of mental
disorders (DSM 5) "classifies the "disorders people have"
NANDA - Answer diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental
health problems
, What are future challenges and roles for mental health issues? - Answer Educational
challenges: aging population, cultural diversity and competency, science, technology, and
electronic health care, geographical disparities
Advocacy and Legislative involvement - Answer role of the patient advocate and combating
stigma
Freud's psychoanalytic theory - Answer levels of awareness: conscious, preconscious,
unconscious
personality structure: id, ego, superego
Defense mechanisms and anxiety
Defense mechanisms and anxiety - Answer ego develops defense mechanisms; unconscious
level except for suppression.
What can cause mental dysfunction? - Answer drugs, hormones, infection, and physical
trauma, genetic factors, environmental influences
What is depression caused by? - Answer deficiency of norepinephrine and/or serotonin
What causes schizophrenia? - Answer excess of dopamine
What is structural imaging of the brain? - Answer anatomic changes CT (lesions, abrasions,
infarct) and MRI (edema, ischemia, infection, neoplasm)
What is functional imaging of the brain? - Answer physiologic activity; PET (O2 utilization,
glucose, blood flow) and SPECT (Circ: CS fluid)
What causes anxiety disorders? - Answer deficiency of GABA
Mechanism of action benzodiazepines? - Answer promotes the activity of GABA by binding to
a specific receptor on the GABA receptor complex; inhibits cellular excitation causing a calming
effect.
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Edition.
Mental illness - Answer all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
Mental health - Answer a state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or
her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a
contribution to the community
Contributing factors to mental health - Answer Resilience (individual attributes and behaviors),
Social and economic circumstances, environmental factors (cultures, etc.)
Social Influences on mental health care - Answer Consumer Movement and Mental Health
Recovery
Components of Recovery - Answer Hope, person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer-
supported, relationships and social networks, culturally based and influenced, addresses
trauma, strengths and responsibility, respect
Decade of the Brain - Answer 1990s
Epidemiology - Answer Helps ID high risk groups-understanding
Incidence - Answer number of new cases
prevalence - Answer total number of new and existing
Classification of mental illness - Answer diagnostic and statistical classification of mental
disorders (DSM 5) "classifies the "disorders people have"
NANDA - Answer diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental
health problems
, What are future challenges and roles for mental health issues? - Answer Educational
challenges: aging population, cultural diversity and competency, science, technology, and
electronic health care, geographical disparities
Advocacy and Legislative involvement - Answer role of the patient advocate and combating
stigma
Freud's psychoanalytic theory - Answer levels of awareness: conscious, preconscious,
unconscious
personality structure: id, ego, superego
Defense mechanisms and anxiety
Defense mechanisms and anxiety - Answer ego develops defense mechanisms; unconscious
level except for suppression.
What can cause mental dysfunction? - Answer drugs, hormones, infection, and physical
trauma, genetic factors, environmental influences
What is depression caused by? - Answer deficiency of norepinephrine and/or serotonin
What causes schizophrenia? - Answer excess of dopamine
What is structural imaging of the brain? - Answer anatomic changes CT (lesions, abrasions,
infarct) and MRI (edema, ischemia, infection, neoplasm)
What is functional imaging of the brain? - Answer physiologic activity; PET (O2 utilization,
glucose, blood flow) and SPECT (Circ: CS fluid)
What causes anxiety disorders? - Answer deficiency of GABA
Mechanism of action benzodiazepines? - Answer promotes the activity of GABA by binding to
a specific receptor on the GABA receptor complex; inhibits cellular excitation causing a calming
effect.
