PMHNP BOARDS 2024 ACTUAL PAPER
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Action. Answer: Person is engaging in specific, overt actions to
change
⩥ Maintenance. Answer: Person is engaging in behaviors to prevent
relapse
⩥ Motivational Interviewing. Answer: Builds on transtheoretical model
of change. Motivation elicited from client. Nonconfrontational,
nonadversarial
⩥ Descriptive statistics. Answer: Mean, standard deviation, variance
⩥ Variance. Answer: How values are dispersed around mean. Larger
variance - larger dispersion of scores
⩥ Inferential statistics. Answer: Numerical values that enable one to
reach conclusions that extend beyond immediate data, generated by
quantitative research designs (t-test, ANOVA, pearson's r, probability, P
value)
,⩥ T test. Answer: Analyze whether TWO means are statistically
DIFFERENT from one another
⩥ ANOVA. Answer: Tests differences among THREE OR MORE
groups
⩥ Pearson's r correlation. Answer: Tests RELATIONSHIP between two
variables
⩥ Probability. Answer: Likelihood of an event occurring between 0-1. 1
= absolutely yes gonna happen, 0 = no way.
⩥ P value. Answer: Level of significance. Describes probability of
particular result occurring by chance alone. P = 0.01, 1% chance of
obtaining result by chance alone
⩥ Central nervous system. Answer: Spinal cord and brain
⩥ Peripheral nervous system. Answer: Cranial nerves outside brain
stem, peripheral nerves, somatic and autonomic NS (sympathetic and
parasympathetic NS)
⩥ Somatic nervous system. Answer: Conveys info from CNS to skeletal
muscles, responsible for voluntary movement
,⩥ Autonomic nervous system. Answer: Regulates internal body
functions to maintain homeostasis. Autonomic = automatic. Smooth
muscle, involuntary movement, sympathetic and parasympathetic
nervous systems
⩥ Sympathetic nervous system. Answer: Excitatory division, fight/flight,
stimulates or increases activity of organs
⩥ Parasympathetic nervous system. Answer: Maintains or stores energy,
rest/digest
⩥ Frontal lobe. Answer: Largest and most developed. Motor fxn,
premotor, association ctx, executive fxns, language, personality
⩥ Association cortex. Answer: Multimodal sensory input to trigger
memory and make decisions
⩥ Broca's area. Answer: Expressive speech, in frontal lobe
⩥ Temporal lobe. Answer: Language (Wernicke's area), primary auditory
area, memory, emotion, integration of vision with sensory information.
⩥ Temporal lobe problems. Answer: Leads to AVH, aphasia, amnesia
, ⩥ Wernick's area. Answer: Receptive speech or language
comprehension, temporal lobe
⩥ Occipital lobe. Answer: Visual stuff. Integrates vision with other
sensory information
⩥ Parietal lobe. Answer: Primary sensory area, taste, reading and writing
⩥ Parietal lobe problems. Answer: Lead to sensory-perceptual
disturbances, agnosia
⩥ Cerebral cortex. Answer: Controls opposite side of body. Sensory
information relayed from thalamus, then processed and integrated in the
cortex. Responsible for speech, cognition, judgment, perception, motor
function.
⩥ Limbic system. Answer: Essential for regulation and modulation of
emotions and memory. Hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus,
amygdala.
⩥ Hypothalamus. Answer: Responsible for appetite, sensations of
hunger and thirst, water balance, circadian rhythms, body temp, libido,
hormone regulation
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Action. Answer: Person is engaging in specific, overt actions to
change
⩥ Maintenance. Answer: Person is engaging in behaviors to prevent
relapse
⩥ Motivational Interviewing. Answer: Builds on transtheoretical model
of change. Motivation elicited from client. Nonconfrontational,
nonadversarial
⩥ Descriptive statistics. Answer: Mean, standard deviation, variance
⩥ Variance. Answer: How values are dispersed around mean. Larger
variance - larger dispersion of scores
⩥ Inferential statistics. Answer: Numerical values that enable one to
reach conclusions that extend beyond immediate data, generated by
quantitative research designs (t-test, ANOVA, pearson's r, probability, P
value)
,⩥ T test. Answer: Analyze whether TWO means are statistically
DIFFERENT from one another
⩥ ANOVA. Answer: Tests differences among THREE OR MORE
groups
⩥ Pearson's r correlation. Answer: Tests RELATIONSHIP between two
variables
⩥ Probability. Answer: Likelihood of an event occurring between 0-1. 1
= absolutely yes gonna happen, 0 = no way.
⩥ P value. Answer: Level of significance. Describes probability of
particular result occurring by chance alone. P = 0.01, 1% chance of
obtaining result by chance alone
⩥ Central nervous system. Answer: Spinal cord and brain
⩥ Peripheral nervous system. Answer: Cranial nerves outside brain
stem, peripheral nerves, somatic and autonomic NS (sympathetic and
parasympathetic NS)
⩥ Somatic nervous system. Answer: Conveys info from CNS to skeletal
muscles, responsible for voluntary movement
,⩥ Autonomic nervous system. Answer: Regulates internal body
functions to maintain homeostasis. Autonomic = automatic. Smooth
muscle, involuntary movement, sympathetic and parasympathetic
nervous systems
⩥ Sympathetic nervous system. Answer: Excitatory division, fight/flight,
stimulates or increases activity of organs
⩥ Parasympathetic nervous system. Answer: Maintains or stores energy,
rest/digest
⩥ Frontal lobe. Answer: Largest and most developed. Motor fxn,
premotor, association ctx, executive fxns, language, personality
⩥ Association cortex. Answer: Multimodal sensory input to trigger
memory and make decisions
⩥ Broca's area. Answer: Expressive speech, in frontal lobe
⩥ Temporal lobe. Answer: Language (Wernicke's area), primary auditory
area, memory, emotion, integration of vision with sensory information.
⩥ Temporal lobe problems. Answer: Leads to AVH, aphasia, amnesia
, ⩥ Wernick's area. Answer: Receptive speech or language
comprehension, temporal lobe
⩥ Occipital lobe. Answer: Visual stuff. Integrates vision with other
sensory information
⩥ Parietal lobe. Answer: Primary sensory area, taste, reading and writing
⩥ Parietal lobe problems. Answer: Lead to sensory-perceptual
disturbances, agnosia
⩥ Cerebral cortex. Answer: Controls opposite side of body. Sensory
information relayed from thalamus, then processed and integrated in the
cortex. Responsible for speech, cognition, judgment, perception, motor
function.
⩥ Limbic system. Answer: Essential for regulation and modulation of
emotions and memory. Hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus,
amygdala.
⩥ Hypothalamus. Answer: Responsible for appetite, sensations of
hunger and thirst, water balance, circadian rhythms, body temp, libido,
hormone regulation
