At an antenatal visit a woman with bruises on her arms quietly says her husband beats her and she fears for her children. What should the nurse do first?

Talk with her alone, assess her safety and tell her about help available

Record the bruises and wait until she asks for help

Call the husband in and counsel the couple together

Advise her to adjust for the sake of the children

Which Indian law deals with trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation?

Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

Indecent Representation of Women Act, 1986

Psychology and sociology for nurses

20 Staff nurse recruitment practice questions on Psychology and sociology for nurses, part of Basic Sciences. The first 20 are below; the first 5 with answers and explanations (tap Show answer after you have chosen), the rest in Learn with a free account.

Question 1 · Medium
A couple's children are leaving home one after another for jobs and marriage. In Duvall's family life cycle, the family is at the stage of:
1. AFamilies with teenagers
2. BAgeing families
3. CLaunching centre families
4. DMiddle-aged parents
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Answer: C · Launching centre families
Duvall's eight stages run from the married couple through childbearing, preschool, school-age and teenage families to the launching centre, middle-aged parents and ageing families. The launching stage starts when the first child leaves and ends when the last one does. Its tasks include letting the young adults go while keeping a supportive home base. The middle-aged parents stage, the empty nest, follows once all children have left.
- A: Families with teenagers come before any child has left home.
- B: The ageing family stage runs from retirement to the death of both spouses.
- D: The middle-aged parents stage begins only after the last child has gone.
Question 2 · Hard
At an antenatal visit a woman with bruises on her arms quietly says her husband beats her and she fears for her children. What should the nurse do first?
1. ARecord the bruises and wait until she asks for help
2. BCall the husband in and counsel the couple together
3. CAdvise her to adjust for the sake of the children
4. DTalk with her alone, assess her safety and tell her about help available
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Answer: D · Talk with her alone, assess her safety and tell her about help available
Disclosure of domestic violence calls for a private, non-judgemental talk and an immediate check of her and the children's safety. The nurse then tells her about help such as the women's helpline 181, One Stop Centres and Protection Officers under the Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and documents the injuries. Joint counselling with the abuser can put her at greater risk. The decision to take further steps remains hers, and confidentiality must be kept.
- A: Recording alone is not enough; a disclosed risk needs a safety assessment now.
- B: Bringing in the abuser can raise her danger and stops her speaking freely.
- C: Advising her to adjust dismisses the abuse and leaves her and the children at risk.
Question 3 · Easy
Which Indian law deals with trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation?
1. AProtection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
2. BIndecent Representation of Women Act, 1986
3. CImmoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
4. DDowry Prohibition Act, 1961
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Answer: C · Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, first named the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, is India's main law against trafficking for prostitution. It punishes procuring, running brothels and living on the earnings of prostitution. It also provides for rescue and rehabilitation of victims in protective homes. Nurses in community and hospital settings may meet rescued women who need health care and counselling.
- A: The Domestic Violence Act protects women from abuse within the household.
- B: This Act bans indecent depiction of women in advertisements and publications.
- D: The Dowry Prohibition Act bans giving or taking dowry, not trafficking.
Question 4 · Easy
Judging a people's customs by the standards of their own culture, not one's own, is called:
1. ACultural lag
2. BAssimilation
3. CEthnocentrism
4. DCultural relativism
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Answer: D · Cultural relativism
Cultural relativism means understanding a practice within the culture it belongs to before judging it. It is the opposite of ethnocentrism, which treats one's own culture as the standard. For nurses it is the starting point of culturally sensitive care. It does not mean accepting harmful practices, only understanding them before planning change.
- A: Cultural lag is the delay of non-material culture behind material change.
- B: Assimilation is a minority group taking on the dominant culture and losing its own.
- C: Ethnocentrism judges other cultures by one's own, the opposite attitude.
Question 5 · Medium
A heavy smoker refuses screening, saying lung cancer happens to others since his grandfather smoked and lived to ninety. In the Health Belief Model, what does he lack?
1. ASelf-efficacy
2. BPerceived susceptibility
3. CPerceived benefits
4. DPerceived severity
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Answer: B · Perceived susceptibility
The Health Belief Model predicts action when a person feels at risk, sees the disease as serious, believes the action helps and sees few barriers. Perceived susceptibility is the belief that the illness could happen to oneself. This man accepts that cancer exists but denies his own risk. Teaching should therefore stress his personal risk from smoking, not only how serious cancer is.
- A: Nothing suggests he doubts his ability to attend screening.
- C: He does not question whether screening works; he doubts he is at risk.
- D: He does not say lung cancer is mild; he says it will not happen to him.
Question 6 · Hard
A child with tuberculosis refuses his tablets. The nurse gives a sticker after every dose and he now takes them daily. To keep this going after discharge, the best next step is to:
1. AScold him whenever he refuses a dose
2. BKeep giving a sticker after every single dose
3. CStop the stickers completely from the next day
4. DReward some doses at random, then gradually fewer
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Question 7 · Easy
McClelland's theory of motivation describes three learned needs. Besides achievement and affiliation, the third need is:
1. ASafety
2. BEsteem
3. CPower
4. DSelf-actualisation
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Question 8 · Medium
During a home visit a nurse finds a 13-year-old boy working full time in a roadside hotel kitchen. Under the child labour law as amended in 2016, his employment is:
1. AAllowed, if his working day is under six hours
2. BAllowed, as hotel work is not a hazardous process
3. CProhibited, as no child under 14 may be employed
4. DAllowed, if his parents give written consent
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Question 9 · Easy
Teaching a behaviour step by step by rewarding each closer approximation to the final act is called:
1. AExtinction
2. BShaping
3. CChaining
4. DGeneralisation
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Question 10 · Medium
A husband keeps all the family income and refuses his wife money for food and her medicines. Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, this is:
1. AEmotional abuse
2. BEconomic abuse
3. CPhysical abuse
4. DNot domestic violence
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Question 11 · Medium
A diabetic man says his sugar level depends only on fate and his doctor's luck, not on what he eats. In Rotter's terms he has:
1. AAn external locus of control
2. BAn internal locus of control
3. CLearned helplessness
4. DA high need for achievement
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Question 12 · Easy
In the five-factor (Big Five) model of personality, the trait of being organised, dependable and self-disciplined is:
1. AConscientiousness
2. BExtraversion
3. CAgreeableness
4. DOpenness to experience
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Question 13 · Easy
According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of middle adulthood is:
1. AIntegrity versus despair
2. BIntimacy versus isolation
3. CIndustry versus inferiority
4. DGenerativity versus stagnation
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Question 14 · Medium
The extra attention and release from duties that a patient gains from a conversion symptom is called:
1. APositive transference
2. BPrimary gain
3. CSecondary gain
4. DMalingering
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Question 15 · Hard
In a village family the married sons live with their wives in the father's house, property passes to the sons, and the grandfather makes all decisions. This family is:
1. APatrilineal, matrilocal and patriarchal
2. BPatrilineal, patrilocal and patriarchal
3. CPatrilineal, neolocal and egalitarian
4. DMatrilineal, matrilocal and matriarchal
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Question 16 · Hard
A community nurse learns that a 15-year-old girl in her area is to be married next week. Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the most appropriate action is to:
1. AAdvise the family to delay the wedding but take no further step
2. BCounsel the girl to use contraception after her marriage
3. CLet the marriage proceed, as it can be annulled once she is 18
4. DInform the Child Marriage Prohibition Officer or Childline 1098 at once
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Question 17 · Medium
A first-year nursing student begins to copy the way her admired ward sister speaks, dresses and handles patients. The defence mechanism she shows is:
1. AIdentification
2. BProjection
3. CCompensation
4. DSublimation
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Question 18 · Medium
A man newly started on insulin says he could never inject himself. The nurse lets him succeed first with the pen on a pad, then on himself, with praise at each step. She is mainly building his:
1. ALocus of control
2. BLevel of aspiration
3. CSelf-efficacy
4. DSelf-concept
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Question 19 · Medium
Mild anxiety before a practical examination improves performance, but panic makes it worse. This relation between arousal and performance is the:
1. AJames-Lange theory
2. BYerkes-Dodson law
3. CLaw of effect
4. DDrive-reduction theory
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Question 20 · Easy
Tolman's rats explored a maze without any reward and later ran it quickly once food was placed at the end. This kind of learning is:
1. AInsight learning
2. BTrial-and-error learning
3. CLatent learning
4. DClassical conditioning
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Psychology and sociology for nurses

A couple's children are leaving home one after another for jobs and marriage. In Duvall's family life cycle, the family is at the stage of:

At an antenatal visit a woman with bruises on her arms quietly says her husband beats her and she fears for her children. What should the nurse do first?

Which Indian law deals with trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation?

Judging a people's customs by the standards of their own culture, not one's own, is called:

A heavy smoker refuses screening, saying lung cancer happens to others since his grandfather smoked and lived to ninety. In the Health Belief Model, what does he lack?

A child with tuberculosis refuses his tablets. The nurse gives a sticker after every dose and he now takes them daily. To keep this going after discharge, the best next step is to:

McClelland's theory of motivation describes three learned needs. Besides achievement and affiliation, the third need is:

During a home visit a nurse finds a 13-year-old boy working full time in a roadside hotel kitchen. Under the child labour law as amended in 2016, his employment is:

Teaching a behaviour step by step by rewarding each closer approximation to the final act is called:

A husband keeps all the family income and refuses his wife money for food and her medicines. Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, this is:

A diabetic man says his sugar level depends only on fate and his doctor's luck, not on what he eats. In Rotter's terms he has:

In the five-factor (Big Five) model of personality, the trait of being organised, dependable and self-disciplined is:

According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of middle adulthood is:

The extra attention and release from duties that a patient gains from a conversion symptom is called:

In a village family the married sons live with their wives in the father's house, property passes to the sons, and the grandfather makes all decisions. This family is:

A community nurse learns that a 15-year-old girl in her area is to be married next week. Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the most appropriate action is to:

A first-year nursing student begins to copy the way her admired ward sister speaks, dresses and handles patients. The defence mechanism she shows is:

A man newly started on insulin says he could never inject himself. The nurse lets him succeed first with the pen on a pad, then on himself, with praise at each step. She is mainly building his:

Mild anxiety before a practical examination improves performance, but panic makes it worse. This relation between arousal and performance is the:

Tolman's rats explored a maze without any reward and later ran it quickly once food was placed at the end. This kind of learning is: