11/10/25, 1:26 PM NSG 527 Final
NSG 527 final Exam 2025 (Actual Exam) Questions with
verified Answers (Latest Update 2025-2026) UPDATE!!
Psychopathology, Theories, and Advanced Clinical
Modalities, Wilkes University
• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
• Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
• Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
Reticular activating system
• Regulates thalamus and cortex activities that are involved in
(RAS)
emotions
• Involved in processing pain and in regulation of
heartrate, breathing, perspiration, swallowing,
coughing, salivation, urination, and sexual arousal
• Bridges internal homeostasis and outside environment
• Involved with raw emotions of pleasure, reward, aversion, and
Hypothalamus rage
• Regulates the autonomic nervous system and secretion of
pituitary hormones
• Involved in hunger, thirst, water balance,
regulation of temperature, circadian rhythms, and
stress response
• Gaitsinformation to the neocortex
• Processes information coming from the 5 senses and
Thalamus
information coming from the amygdala and
cerebellum before it goes to the neocortex
• Involved in wakefulness, sleep, and pain perception
• Anxiety and anger
• Generates rudimentary emotions such as fear, rage,
religious ecstasy, and sexual desire
• Surveys the environment
Amygdala • Regulates fear and response to stress
• Evaluates expression of friendliness, fear, love, affection, distrust,
and anger
• Contributes to emotional memories, especially fear
• Seeks attachment indiscriminately
Insula • Involved in negative emotions: disgust, pain, hunger, empathy,
and callousness
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• Links emotions to actions and predicts the consequences of
actions.
• Involved in experiencing intense love, anger, or lost.
Cingulate cortex • Activated when mother here's her infant cry.
• Involved into detecting how others feel and reaching to others
emotions.
• Registers social rejection.
• Adjust behavior to social context.
the memory structures
• regulates information coming to the neocortex.
• Involved in memory, learning, long-term memories, and
Hippocampus and retrieval of information.
parahippocampal gyrus
• Builds cognitive maps of individual in relation to time,
place, and past and present experiences.
• Assigns the time and place to an event.
Quiets and dampens down responses of rage.
• Involves in socialization and development of enduring emotional
Septal nuclei attachments.
• Regulates hippocampal memory related activity.
• Involved in pleasure and reward
Modulates the limbic system.
Nucleus accumbens
• Involved in reward and pleasure circuit.
integrates emotional information and cognition before
conveying that information to the hypothalamus in
neocortex.
Cingulate gyrus
• Assigns emotional value to stimuli.
• Involved in mother child interaction, long-term attachments.
• Regulates automatic, endocrine functioning and motor functions.
• Involved in retrieval of short term memories.
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1. Striatum
2. Pallidum
Basal ganglia (4 parts)?
3. Substansia Nigra
4. Subthalamic nucleus
• brings together a motion, executive function, motivation, and
motor activity.
Basal ganglia • Involved in posture, walking and eye movements.
• Moderates motor expression of emotional state (hitting, biting,
licking.)
• Also involved in memory, cognition and emotion.
• Controls extrapyramidal motor tract.
Corpus callosum Allows for communication between the right and left
hemispheres of the brain?
1 Awareness and acceptance of cultural differences
2 Self-awareness of one's culture
6 Key aspects involved in 3 Understanding the dynamics of cultural differences
providing cultural competent 4 Knowledge of the client's family culture
health care? 5 Adaptation of services to support the client's culture
6 Responding to families/family members in an empathetic
manner.
family self-identified ethnicity, family's degree of
cultural empathy. The nurse acculturation (languages spoken, recent migration,
should assess?
Native culture, community discriminations, etc, religious
preferences or practices)
1. Select appropriate system to work with
2. Providing more time to work with unacculturated families
3. Dealing with language differences
Family systems 7 Basic
4. Taking into account families interactional norms
strategies for working 5. Focusing on family strengths and families' positive adaptation
with? 6. Promoting positive change
7. Being aware of and utilizing family's support systems
first attachment theorist John Bowlby
described as "lasting
psychological
connectedness between
human beings?
He believed early bonds John Bowlby
formed by
children with caregivers
have tremendous impact
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NSG 527 final Exam 2025 (Actual Exam) Questions with
verified Answers (Latest Update 2025-2026) UPDATE!!
Psychopathology, Theories, and Advanced Clinical
Modalities, Wilkes University
• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
• Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
• Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
Reticular activating system
• Regulates thalamus and cortex activities that are involved in
(RAS)
emotions
• Involved in processing pain and in regulation of
heartrate, breathing, perspiration, swallowing,
coughing, salivation, urination, and sexual arousal
• Bridges internal homeostasis and outside environment
• Involved with raw emotions of pleasure, reward, aversion, and
Hypothalamus rage
• Regulates the autonomic nervous system and secretion of
pituitary hormones
• Involved in hunger, thirst, water balance,
regulation of temperature, circadian rhythms, and
stress response
• Gaitsinformation to the neocortex
• Processes information coming from the 5 senses and
Thalamus
information coming from the amygdala and
cerebellum before it goes to the neocortex
• Involved in wakefulness, sleep, and pain perception
• Anxiety and anger
• Generates rudimentary emotions such as fear, rage,
religious ecstasy, and sexual desire
• Surveys the environment
Amygdala • Regulates fear and response to stress
• Evaluates expression of friendliness, fear, love, affection, distrust,
and anger
• Contributes to emotional memories, especially fear
• Seeks attachment indiscriminately
Insula • Involved in negative emotions: disgust, pain, hunger, empathy,
and callousness
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• Links emotions to actions and predicts the consequences of
actions.
• Involved in experiencing intense love, anger, or lost.
Cingulate cortex • Activated when mother here's her infant cry.
• Involved into detecting how others feel and reaching to others
emotions.
• Registers social rejection.
• Adjust behavior to social context.
the memory structures
• regulates information coming to the neocortex.
• Involved in memory, learning, long-term memories, and
Hippocampus and retrieval of information.
parahippocampal gyrus
• Builds cognitive maps of individual in relation to time,
place, and past and present experiences.
• Assigns the time and place to an event.
Quiets and dampens down responses of rage.
• Involves in socialization and development of enduring emotional
Septal nuclei attachments.
• Regulates hippocampal memory related activity.
• Involved in pleasure and reward
Modulates the limbic system.
Nucleus accumbens
• Involved in reward and pleasure circuit.
integrates emotional information and cognition before
conveying that information to the hypothalamus in
neocortex.
Cingulate gyrus
• Assigns emotional value to stimuli.
• Involved in mother child interaction, long-term attachments.
• Regulates automatic, endocrine functioning and motor functions.
• Involved in retrieval of short term memories.
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1. Striatum
2. Pallidum
Basal ganglia (4 parts)?
3. Substansia Nigra
4. Subthalamic nucleus
• brings together a motion, executive function, motivation, and
motor activity.
Basal ganglia • Involved in posture, walking and eye movements.
• Moderates motor expression of emotional state (hitting, biting,
licking.)
• Also involved in memory, cognition and emotion.
• Controls extrapyramidal motor tract.
Corpus callosum Allows for communication between the right and left
hemispheres of the brain?
1 Awareness and acceptance of cultural differences
2 Self-awareness of one's culture
6 Key aspects involved in 3 Understanding the dynamics of cultural differences
providing cultural competent 4 Knowledge of the client's family culture
health care? 5 Adaptation of services to support the client's culture
6 Responding to families/family members in an empathetic
manner.
family self-identified ethnicity, family's degree of
cultural empathy. The nurse acculturation (languages spoken, recent migration,
should assess?
Native culture, community discriminations, etc, religious
preferences or practices)
1. Select appropriate system to work with
2. Providing more time to work with unacculturated families
3. Dealing with language differences
Family systems 7 Basic
4. Taking into account families interactional norms
strategies for working 5. Focusing on family strengths and families' positive adaptation
with? 6. Promoting positive change
7. Being aware of and utilizing family's support systems
first attachment theorist John Bowlby
described as "lasting
psychological
connectedness between
human beings?
He believed early bonds John Bowlby
formed by
children with caregivers
have tremendous impact
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