Psych HESI 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Correct Answers | New Update
Unconscious failure to recognize an event, thought, or feeling that is too painful for
conscious awareness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Denial
The transference of feelings to another person or object - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Displacement
Attempt to be like someone or emulate the personality, traits, or behaviors of
another person - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Identification
Using reason to avoid emotional conflict - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intellectualization
Incorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group into one's own
ego structure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Introjection
Separation of an unacceptable feeling, idea, or impulse from one's thought process
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Isolation
Indirectly expressing aggression toward others; a facade of overt compliance
masks covert resentment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Passive-aggression
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,Attributing one's own thoughts or impulses to another person - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Projection
Offering an acceptable, logical explanation to make unacceptable feelings and
behavior acceptable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rationalization
Development of conscious attitudes & behaviors that are the opposite of what is
really felt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reaction formation
Reverting to an earlier level of development when anxious or highly stressed -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Regression
The INVOLUNTARY exclusion of a painful thought or memory from awareness -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Repression
Substitution of an unacceptable feeling by a more socially acceptable one -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sublimation
The INTENTIONAL exclusion of feelings and ideas - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Suppression
Communication or behavior done to negate a previously unacceptable act -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Undoing
Seven basic communication principles that can be applied to all patients -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔(1) Establish trust. (2) Demonstrate a nonjudgmental attitude. (3)
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,Be empathetic, not sympathetic. (4) Use active listening. (5) Accept & support the
pt's feelings. (6) Clarify & validate pt's statements. (7) Use a matter-of-fact
approach
Nurses must remember to keep statements _____________-free, _____________-
free, & _____________-free - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Value-free, advice-free, &
reassurance-free. NO OPINIONS!!
Seven useful phrases - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Tell me about..."
"Go on..."
"I'd like to discuss what you're thinking..."
"What are your thoughts...?"
"Are you saying that...?"
"What are you feeling?"
"It seems as if..."
Twelve forbidden phrases - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"You should..." "You'll have to..."
"You can't..."
"If it were me, I'd..." "I think you..."
"Why don't you..."
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, "It's the policy on this unit."
"Don't worry."
"Everyone..."
"Why...?"
"Just a second..."
"I know..."
What are indications for Electroconvulsive Therapy? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Used with
severely depressed pt.s who fail to respond to antidepressants & therapy. May be
used with extremely suicidal pt.s b/c two weeks are needed for antidepressants to
take effect.
What meds are given prior to ECT? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An anticholinergic (to dry
oral secretions) and muscle relaxant
What is the primary concern following ECT? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AIRWAY. Nausea
is common after ECT--vomiting by an unconscious client can lead to aspiration.
HAVE SUCTION EQUIPMENT & O2 AVAILABLE**
Agoraphobia= fear of... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Crowds or open places
Thanatophobia= fear of... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Death
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and Correct Answers | New Update
Unconscious failure to recognize an event, thought, or feeling that is too painful for
conscious awareness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Denial
The transference of feelings to another person or object - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Displacement
Attempt to be like someone or emulate the personality, traits, or behaviors of
another person - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Identification
Using reason to avoid emotional conflict - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intellectualization
Incorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group into one's own
ego structure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Introjection
Separation of an unacceptable feeling, idea, or impulse from one's thought process
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Isolation
Indirectly expressing aggression toward others; a facade of overt compliance
masks covert resentment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Passive-aggression
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,Attributing one's own thoughts or impulses to another person - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Projection
Offering an acceptable, logical explanation to make unacceptable feelings and
behavior acceptable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rationalization
Development of conscious attitudes & behaviors that are the opposite of what is
really felt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reaction formation
Reverting to an earlier level of development when anxious or highly stressed -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Regression
The INVOLUNTARY exclusion of a painful thought or memory from awareness -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Repression
Substitution of an unacceptable feeling by a more socially acceptable one -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sublimation
The INTENTIONAL exclusion of feelings and ideas - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Suppression
Communication or behavior done to negate a previously unacceptable act -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Undoing
Seven basic communication principles that can be applied to all patients -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔(1) Establish trust. (2) Demonstrate a nonjudgmental attitude. (3)
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,Be empathetic, not sympathetic. (4) Use active listening. (5) Accept & support the
pt's feelings. (6) Clarify & validate pt's statements. (7) Use a matter-of-fact
approach
Nurses must remember to keep statements _____________-free, _____________-
free, & _____________-free - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Value-free, advice-free, &
reassurance-free. NO OPINIONS!!
Seven useful phrases - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Tell me about..."
"Go on..."
"I'd like to discuss what you're thinking..."
"What are your thoughts...?"
"Are you saying that...?"
"What are you feeling?"
"It seems as if..."
Twelve forbidden phrases - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"You should..." "You'll have to..."
"You can't..."
"If it were me, I'd..." "I think you..."
"Why don't you..."
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, "It's the policy on this unit."
"Don't worry."
"Everyone..."
"Why...?"
"Just a second..."
"I know..."
What are indications for Electroconvulsive Therapy? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Used with
severely depressed pt.s who fail to respond to antidepressants & therapy. May be
used with extremely suicidal pt.s b/c two weeks are needed for antidepressants to
take effect.
What meds are given prior to ECT? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An anticholinergic (to dry
oral secretions) and muscle relaxant
What is the primary concern following ECT? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AIRWAY. Nausea
is common after ECT--vomiting by an unconscious client can lead to aspiration.
HAVE SUCTION EQUIPMENT & O2 AVAILABLE**
Agoraphobia= fear of... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Crowds or open places
Thanatophobia= fear of... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Death
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