QUESTION BANK FOR PMHNP BOARDS 2026
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Oral stage failure. Answer: Schizophrenia, SUD, paranoia (Freud
stage)
◉ Anal stage age. Answer: 18 mos-3 yrs (Freud stage)
◉ Anal stage. Answer: Demands for control/expulsion/retention,
bladder/bowel elimination
◉ Anal stage failure. Answer: Depression (Freud stage)
◉ Phallic stage age. Answer: 3-6 years (Freud stage)
◉ Phallic stage. Answer: Genital focus. ID with same sex parent.
Exhibitionism, masturbation with focus on Oedpial conflict,
castration anxiety, female fear of lost maternal love.
◉ Phallic stage failure. Answer: Sexual identity disorder (Freud
stage)
,◉ Latency stage age. Answer: 6 years - puberty (Freud stage)
◉ Latency stage. Answer: Dormant sexual feelings. Peer
relationships, learning, motor-skills devt, socialization.
◉ Genital stage age. Answer: Puberty onward (Freud stage)
◉ Latency stage failure. Answer: Inability to form social
relationships (Freud stage)
◉ Genital stage. Answer: Maturation of sexuality. Integration and
synthesis of behaviors from early stages.
◉ Genital stage failure. Answer: Sexual perversion disorders (Freud
stage)
◉ Suppression. Answer: Conscious defense mechanism to keep
something from awareness
◉ Sensorimotor age. Answer: Birth - 2 years (Piaget)
,◉ Sensorimotor stage. Answer: Critical achievement = object
permanence. Objects have an existence independent of child's
involvement with them.
◉ Preoperational age. Answer: 2-7 years (Piaget)
◉ Preoperational stage. Answer: More extensive use of language and
symbolism, egocentrism, rigidity of thought, MAGICAL THINKING
◉ Concrete operations age. Answer: 7-12 years (Piaget)
◉ Concrete operations stage. Answer: Conservation, reversibility,
empathy, morality, using logic (Piaget)
◉ Reversibility. Answer: Concrete operations stage. Realization that
one thing can turn into another and back again (water and ice)
◉ Conservation. Answer: Concrete operations stage. Ability to
recognize that although the shape of an object may change, it will
maintain characteristics that enable it ot be recognized as that
object (clay)
◉ Formal operations age. Answer: 12 years - adult
, ◉ Formal operations stage. Answer: Abstractions, thinking operates
in a formal, logical manner
◉ Interpersonal theory. Answer: Stacks. Behavior occurs because of
interpersonal dynamics. Relationships and experiences influence
one's personality development --> self-system
◉ Interpersonal theory drive for behavior. Answer: Drive for
satisfaction (sleep/sex/hunger), drive for security (conforming to
social norms of a person's reference group)
◉ Theory of Cultural Care. Answer: Regardless of culture, care is
unifying focus and essence of nursing. Health and well-being can be
predicted through cultural care.
◉ Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship Theory/Interpersonal
Theory. Answer: Peplau. Nursing is interpersonal process in which
interventions occur within context of nurse-client relship.
◉ Phases of nurse-client relationship. Answer: Orientation phase,
working phase (identification and exploitation), termination phase
(resolution)
◉ Health belief model. Answer: Healthy people do not always take
advantage of preventive programs bcuz of perception of
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Oral stage failure. Answer: Schizophrenia, SUD, paranoia (Freud
stage)
◉ Anal stage age. Answer: 18 mos-3 yrs (Freud stage)
◉ Anal stage. Answer: Demands for control/expulsion/retention,
bladder/bowel elimination
◉ Anal stage failure. Answer: Depression (Freud stage)
◉ Phallic stage age. Answer: 3-6 years (Freud stage)
◉ Phallic stage. Answer: Genital focus. ID with same sex parent.
Exhibitionism, masturbation with focus on Oedpial conflict,
castration anxiety, female fear of lost maternal love.
◉ Phallic stage failure. Answer: Sexual identity disorder (Freud
stage)
,◉ Latency stage age. Answer: 6 years - puberty (Freud stage)
◉ Latency stage. Answer: Dormant sexual feelings. Peer
relationships, learning, motor-skills devt, socialization.
◉ Genital stage age. Answer: Puberty onward (Freud stage)
◉ Latency stage failure. Answer: Inability to form social
relationships (Freud stage)
◉ Genital stage. Answer: Maturation of sexuality. Integration and
synthesis of behaviors from early stages.
◉ Genital stage failure. Answer: Sexual perversion disorders (Freud
stage)
◉ Suppression. Answer: Conscious defense mechanism to keep
something from awareness
◉ Sensorimotor age. Answer: Birth - 2 years (Piaget)
,◉ Sensorimotor stage. Answer: Critical achievement = object
permanence. Objects have an existence independent of child's
involvement with them.
◉ Preoperational age. Answer: 2-7 years (Piaget)
◉ Preoperational stage. Answer: More extensive use of language and
symbolism, egocentrism, rigidity of thought, MAGICAL THINKING
◉ Concrete operations age. Answer: 7-12 years (Piaget)
◉ Concrete operations stage. Answer: Conservation, reversibility,
empathy, morality, using logic (Piaget)
◉ Reversibility. Answer: Concrete operations stage. Realization that
one thing can turn into another and back again (water and ice)
◉ Conservation. Answer: Concrete operations stage. Ability to
recognize that although the shape of an object may change, it will
maintain characteristics that enable it ot be recognized as that
object (clay)
◉ Formal operations age. Answer: 12 years - adult
, ◉ Formal operations stage. Answer: Abstractions, thinking operates
in a formal, logical manner
◉ Interpersonal theory. Answer: Stacks. Behavior occurs because of
interpersonal dynamics. Relationships and experiences influence
one's personality development --> self-system
◉ Interpersonal theory drive for behavior. Answer: Drive for
satisfaction (sleep/sex/hunger), drive for security (conforming to
social norms of a person's reference group)
◉ Theory of Cultural Care. Answer: Regardless of culture, care is
unifying focus and essence of nursing. Health and well-being can be
predicted through cultural care.
◉ Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship Theory/Interpersonal
Theory. Answer: Peplau. Nursing is interpersonal process in which
interventions occur within context of nurse-client relship.
◉ Phases of nurse-client relationship. Answer: Orientation phase,
working phase (identification and exploitation), termination phase
(resolution)
◉ Health belief model. Answer: Healthy people do not always take
advantage of preventive programs bcuz of perception of
