NURS 451 - Theories and Therapies (Exam
1) ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is defined as "Interconnected concepts, definitions, or models that explain why a series
of incidents occur?" - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Theories
What is the nurse's approach to understanding mental health clients influenced by? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Philosophy or theory of what makes a person human
Who founded the psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Freud
Freud - theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
What are the five key ideas of Freud's psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Psychic determinism, role of unconscious, levels of awareness, personality
structure, instinctual drives (sexual and aggressive)
Which theory includes psychic determinism? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes role of unconscious? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes levels of awareness? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes personality structure? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes instinctual drives? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the three levels of awareness? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Conscious, preconscious, unconscious
, According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the three components of personality
structure? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Id, ego, superego
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the two main instinctual drives? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Sexual, aggressive
What does psychic determinism mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No behavior is
accidental
What does the role of unconscious mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅All symptoms come
out of repressed anger/sexual needs/etc
What is the nurse's role in reference to the psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Help people become more aware of repressed ideations and needs
What is ego? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Connection with reality, understanding of oneself
based on reality
What is superego? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Moral behavior, conscience
What does psychoanalytic therapy focus on? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The past
What are the various methods of psychoanalytic therapy? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Talk
therapy, revealing the unconscious, hypnosis, dream analysis,
What is transference? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Patient attributes feelings regarding
another person in his/her life to nurse
What is it called when a patient attributes feelings regarding another person in his/her life to
nurse? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Transference
What is countertransference? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Nurse attributes feelings to
patient
1) ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is defined as "Interconnected concepts, definitions, or models that explain why a series
of incidents occur?" - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Theories
What is the nurse's approach to understanding mental health clients influenced by? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Philosophy or theory of what makes a person human
Who founded the psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Freud
Freud - theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
What are the five key ideas of Freud's psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Psychic determinism, role of unconscious, levels of awareness, personality
structure, instinctual drives (sexual and aggressive)
Which theory includes psychic determinism? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes role of unconscious? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes levels of awareness? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes personality structure? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
Which theory includes instinctual drives? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Psychoanalytic
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the three levels of awareness? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Conscious, preconscious, unconscious
, According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the three components of personality
structure? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Id, ego, superego
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, what are the two main instinctual drives? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Sexual, aggressive
What does psychic determinism mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No behavior is
accidental
What does the role of unconscious mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅All symptoms come
out of repressed anger/sexual needs/etc
What is the nurse's role in reference to the psychoanalytic theory? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Help people become more aware of repressed ideations and needs
What is ego? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Connection with reality, understanding of oneself
based on reality
What is superego? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Moral behavior, conscience
What does psychoanalytic therapy focus on? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The past
What are the various methods of psychoanalytic therapy? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Talk
therapy, revealing the unconscious, hypnosis, dream analysis,
What is transference? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Patient attributes feelings regarding
another person in his/her life to nurse
What is it called when a patient attributes feelings regarding another person in his/her life to
nurse? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Transference
What is countertransference? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Nurse attributes feelings to
patient
