ANCC LATEST 2026 EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔veracity - ✔✔telling the truth
✔✔respect - ✔✔treating everyone with equal respect
✔✔deontological theory - ✔✔action is judged based on the act itself
✔✔teleological theory - ✔✔action is judged based on the consequences
✔✔virtue ethics - ✔✔actions are chosen based on moral virtues of the person
✔✔Four elements of malpractice - ✔✔duty, breach of duty, proximate cause, damages
✔✔competency - ✔✔legal, not medical concept - determination that client can make
reasonable judgments and decisions regarding treatment and health concerns
✔✔primary prevention - ✔✔decreasing the incidence of mental disorders
ex. stress management classes, smoking prevention, DARE
✔✔secondary prevention - ✔✔aimed at decreasing prevalence
ex. telephone hotlines, crisis intervention, disaster response
✔✔tertiary prevention - ✔✔aimed at decreasing the disability and severity of mental
disorder
ex. day programs, housing, social skills training
✔✔biological risk factors - ✔✔hx of mental illness, poor nutrition, poor health
✔✔psychological risk factors - ✔✔poor self concept, external locus of control, poor ego
defenses
✔✔social risk factors - ✔✔stressful occupation, low socioeconomic status, poor level of
social integration
✔✔research utilization - ✔✔synthesizing, disseminating, and using research generated
knowledge to make a change in practice
✔✔evidence based practice - ✔✔integration of best research evidence with clinical
expertise and patient values and needs
✔✔evidence based practice model - ✔✔P - patient, population, problem
I - intervention
,C- comparison treatment or placebo
O - outcome
✔✔internal validity - ✔✔the treatment caused a change in the outcome
✔✔external validity - ✔✔the outcome is generalizable to the population
✔✔IRB - ✔✔protects rights of participants in studies - the belmont report
✔✔Trust v Mistrust - ✔✔0-1 year
ability to form relationships, hope, trust in others
✔✔Autonomy v Shame and doubt - ✔✔1-3 years
self control, self esteem, will power
✔✔Initiative v guilt - ✔✔3-6 years
self directed behavior, goal formation, sense of purpose
✔✔Industry v inferiority - ✔✔6-12 years
ability to work, sense of competency and achievement
✔✔Identity v role confusion - ✔✔12-20 years
personal sense of identity
✔✔Intimacy v isolation - ✔✔20-35 years
committed relationships, capacity to love
✔✔generativity v self absorption or stagnation - ✔✔35-65 years
ability to give time and talent to others, ability to grow and change
✔✔integrity v despair - ✔✔> 65 years
fulfillment and comfort with life, willingness to face death, insight
✔✔Psychodynamic theory - ✔✔Freud
intrapsychic conflict among structures of mind
Id (I want), ego (I think, I evaluate), superego (I should or ought)
all behavior is purposeful and meaningful
✔✔oral stage - ✔✔0-18 months
sucking, chewing, feeding
linked to schizophrenia, substance abuse, paranoia
✔✔anal stage - ✔✔18 - 3 years
sphincter control, expulsions, retentions
, linked to depressive disorders
✔✔phallic stage - ✔✔3-6 years
exhibitionism, masturbation
linked to sexual identity issues
✔✔latency stage - ✔✔6-puberty
peer relationships, learning, socialization
linked to issues forming relationships
✔✔genital stage - ✔✔puberty and on
integration and synthesis of behaviors from early stages, genital based sexuality
linked to sexual perversion disorders
✔✔Denial - ✔✔avoidance of unpleasant realities but ignoring them
✔✔projection - ✔✔unconscious rejection of unacceptable personal beliefs or feelings by
attributing them to others
✔✔regression - ✔✔return to more comfortable thoughts, behaviors, or feelings in earlier
stages of development
✔✔repression - ✔✔unconscious exclusion of unwanted emotions or thoughts
✔✔reaction formation - ✔✔overcompensation; opposite feeling is acted on
✔✔rationalization - ✔✔justification of illogical ideas, feelings or actions by developing
an acceptable explanation
✔✔undoing - ✔✔attempting to make up for or undo an unacceptable behavior
✔✔intellectualization - ✔✔attempts to master current stressor or conflict by expansion
of knowledge
✔✔suppression - ✔✔conscious analog of repression
✔✔sublimination - ✔✔unconscious process of substitution of socially acceptable
constructive activity for strong unacceptable impulse
✔✔altruism - ✔✔meeting the needs of others in order to discharge drives
✔✔cognitive theory - ✔✔piaget
human development evolves through cognition, learning, and comprehending
stages of development
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔veracity - ✔✔telling the truth
✔✔respect - ✔✔treating everyone with equal respect
✔✔deontological theory - ✔✔action is judged based on the act itself
✔✔teleological theory - ✔✔action is judged based on the consequences
✔✔virtue ethics - ✔✔actions are chosen based on moral virtues of the person
✔✔Four elements of malpractice - ✔✔duty, breach of duty, proximate cause, damages
✔✔competency - ✔✔legal, not medical concept - determination that client can make
reasonable judgments and decisions regarding treatment and health concerns
✔✔primary prevention - ✔✔decreasing the incidence of mental disorders
ex. stress management classes, smoking prevention, DARE
✔✔secondary prevention - ✔✔aimed at decreasing prevalence
ex. telephone hotlines, crisis intervention, disaster response
✔✔tertiary prevention - ✔✔aimed at decreasing the disability and severity of mental
disorder
ex. day programs, housing, social skills training
✔✔biological risk factors - ✔✔hx of mental illness, poor nutrition, poor health
✔✔psychological risk factors - ✔✔poor self concept, external locus of control, poor ego
defenses
✔✔social risk factors - ✔✔stressful occupation, low socioeconomic status, poor level of
social integration
✔✔research utilization - ✔✔synthesizing, disseminating, and using research generated
knowledge to make a change in practice
✔✔evidence based practice - ✔✔integration of best research evidence with clinical
expertise and patient values and needs
✔✔evidence based practice model - ✔✔P - patient, population, problem
I - intervention
,C- comparison treatment or placebo
O - outcome
✔✔internal validity - ✔✔the treatment caused a change in the outcome
✔✔external validity - ✔✔the outcome is generalizable to the population
✔✔IRB - ✔✔protects rights of participants in studies - the belmont report
✔✔Trust v Mistrust - ✔✔0-1 year
ability to form relationships, hope, trust in others
✔✔Autonomy v Shame and doubt - ✔✔1-3 years
self control, self esteem, will power
✔✔Initiative v guilt - ✔✔3-6 years
self directed behavior, goal formation, sense of purpose
✔✔Industry v inferiority - ✔✔6-12 years
ability to work, sense of competency and achievement
✔✔Identity v role confusion - ✔✔12-20 years
personal sense of identity
✔✔Intimacy v isolation - ✔✔20-35 years
committed relationships, capacity to love
✔✔generativity v self absorption or stagnation - ✔✔35-65 years
ability to give time and talent to others, ability to grow and change
✔✔integrity v despair - ✔✔> 65 years
fulfillment and comfort with life, willingness to face death, insight
✔✔Psychodynamic theory - ✔✔Freud
intrapsychic conflict among structures of mind
Id (I want), ego (I think, I evaluate), superego (I should or ought)
all behavior is purposeful and meaningful
✔✔oral stage - ✔✔0-18 months
sucking, chewing, feeding
linked to schizophrenia, substance abuse, paranoia
✔✔anal stage - ✔✔18 - 3 years
sphincter control, expulsions, retentions
, linked to depressive disorders
✔✔phallic stage - ✔✔3-6 years
exhibitionism, masturbation
linked to sexual identity issues
✔✔latency stage - ✔✔6-puberty
peer relationships, learning, socialization
linked to issues forming relationships
✔✔genital stage - ✔✔puberty and on
integration and synthesis of behaviors from early stages, genital based sexuality
linked to sexual perversion disorders
✔✔Denial - ✔✔avoidance of unpleasant realities but ignoring them
✔✔projection - ✔✔unconscious rejection of unacceptable personal beliefs or feelings by
attributing them to others
✔✔regression - ✔✔return to more comfortable thoughts, behaviors, or feelings in earlier
stages of development
✔✔repression - ✔✔unconscious exclusion of unwanted emotions or thoughts
✔✔reaction formation - ✔✔overcompensation; opposite feeling is acted on
✔✔rationalization - ✔✔justification of illogical ideas, feelings or actions by developing
an acceptable explanation
✔✔undoing - ✔✔attempting to make up for or undo an unacceptable behavior
✔✔intellectualization - ✔✔attempts to master current stressor or conflict by expansion
of knowledge
✔✔suppression - ✔✔conscious analog of repression
✔✔sublimination - ✔✔unconscious process of substitution of socially acceptable
constructive activity for strong unacceptable impulse
✔✔altruism - ✔✔meeting the needs of others in order to discharge drives
✔✔cognitive theory - ✔✔piaget
human development evolves through cognition, learning, and comprehending
stages of development
