LEWIS MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING 11TH
EDITION STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Psychological dysfunction. Answer: distress, significant/ pervasive
impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or
impairment
◉ Supernatural tradition. Answer: attributed to agents outside our bodies
or to social environment
◉ Biological tradition. Answer: attributed to disease or brain
biochemical imbalances, mental illness has physical roots
◉ Behavioral tradition. Answer: focuses on measurable behaviors
◉ Psychological tradition. Answer: attributed to faulty psychological
development and to social context
◉ Multidimensional integrative approach. Answer: approach to the
study of psychopathology that holds psychological disorders as always
being the products of multiple interacting causal factors
◉ Diathesis-stress model. Answer: disorders are the result of underlying
risk factors combining with life stressors that cause a disorder to emerge
, ◉ Epigenetics. Answer: environmental influences actually affect the
expression of certain genes both for the individual and the descendants
by turning on and off genes
◉ Reciprocal gene-environment model. Answer: Genes might influence
the environment that people seek out.
◉ Neurons. Answer: communicate chemically with neurotransmitters
◉ Soma. Answer: cell body
◉ Dendrites. Answer: branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized
to receive information.
◉ Axon. Answer: trunk of the neuron that sends messages to other
neurons
◉ Axon terminal. Answer: buds at the end of the an axon from which
chemical messages are sent
◉ Synapses. Answer: tiny spaces between neurons
◉ Neurotransmitters. Answer: chemical messengers that transmit
messages between brain cells
EDITION STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Psychological dysfunction. Answer: distress, significant/ pervasive
impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or
impairment
◉ Supernatural tradition. Answer: attributed to agents outside our bodies
or to social environment
◉ Biological tradition. Answer: attributed to disease or brain
biochemical imbalances, mental illness has physical roots
◉ Behavioral tradition. Answer: focuses on measurable behaviors
◉ Psychological tradition. Answer: attributed to faulty psychological
development and to social context
◉ Multidimensional integrative approach. Answer: approach to the
study of psychopathology that holds psychological disorders as always
being the products of multiple interacting causal factors
◉ Diathesis-stress model. Answer: disorders are the result of underlying
risk factors combining with life stressors that cause a disorder to emerge
, ◉ Epigenetics. Answer: environmental influences actually affect the
expression of certain genes both for the individual and the descendants
by turning on and off genes
◉ Reciprocal gene-environment model. Answer: Genes might influence
the environment that people seek out.
◉ Neurons. Answer: communicate chemically with neurotransmitters
◉ Soma. Answer: cell body
◉ Dendrites. Answer: branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized
to receive information.
◉ Axon. Answer: trunk of the neuron that sends messages to other
neurons
◉ Axon terminal. Answer: buds at the end of the an axon from which
chemical messages are sent
◉ Synapses. Answer: tiny spaces between neurons
◉ Neurotransmitters. Answer: chemical messengers that transmit
messages between brain cells
