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Nurs 661 Exam Questions And Answers
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Unconscious incompetency: - Answer✔Novice no experience, governed by rules and
regulations
2.Conscious incompetency: - Answer✔Advanced beginner recognizes aspects of situations and
makes
3.Conscious competency: - Answer✔Competency/Proficiency 2 to 5 years' experience,
coordinates complex care and sees situations as wholes, and long-term solutions
4U.nconscious competency - Answer✔Expert flexible, efficient, and uses intuition.
Attunement - Answer✔describes how reactive a person is to another's emotional needs and
moods. A person who is well attuned will respond with appropriate language and behaviors
based on another person's emotional state. Are you able to read social cues? Verbal or non-
verbal, whether to engage with it or not
Egocentrism: - Answer✔is the inability to differentiate between self and other. More
specifically, it is the inability to untangle subjective schemas from objective reality and an
inability to accurately assume or understand any perspective other than one's own. All about
me, especially in teens and kids.
Minimizing: - Answer✔downplaying the significance of an event or emotion—is a common
strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt. In teens. Not to minimizing patient's problem.
Normalizing their situation is good but not minimizing.
Neuroplasticity: - Answer✔also known as brain plasticity, neuroelasticity, or neural plasticity, is
the ability of the brain (cortex) to change continuously throughout an individual's life, e.g.,
brain activity associated with a given function can be transferred to a different location, the
proportion of grey matter can change, and synapses may strengthen or weaken over time.
Therapy can help to change the brain.
Nurturing: - Answer✔the entirety of climate-related aspects which impact the growth and
actions of an individual. Psychologists have displayed specific interest in sociosocial and
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ecological factors, like family characteristics, child-rearing traditions, and economic status. Can
be immature or maladaptive
Overdeterminism: - Answer✔occurs when a single-observed effect is determined by multiple
causes, any one of which alone would be sufficient to account for the effect. That is, there are
more causes present than are necessary to cause the effect. Problem may come from different
source.
Reframing: - Answer✔Developing a new conceptual or emotional outlook relating to situations
experienced, and putting it into another frame which follows the facts or evidence equally well,
changing its whole definition. Reconstruction of a subject's experiential view to impart a more
positive view of it. Method for changing self-defeating thought processes by consciously
inserting more positive ones. Restarting
Resilience - Answer✔The ability to adapt or rebound quickly from change, illness, or bad
fortune. Also known as: psychic resilience; psychological resilience. Able to handle stress. May
have a genetic component.
Know what the adaptive information processing model and what it is used for. - Answer✔The
AIP model was developed by Shapiro through her development and observations of the effects
of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 2001). AIP
hypothesizes that humans have an inherent information processing system that usually
processes experiences to a physiological adaptive state in which information can be taken in
and learning can occur. This model posits that there is an innate self-healing quality in the brain
that strives to regulate its internal environment to survive and to maintain a stable, constant
condition by means of dynamic regulation. Positive and negative experiences affect
neurophysiological harmony. Optimally, memory is stored in a way that allows for connection
with other adaptive memory networks. how traumatic memories are stored in the brain.
Know what the Diathesis-Stress model is what it is used for: - Answer✔Theory stating that
mental and physical disorders develop from genetic or biological predisposition combined with
stress. This theory is often used to describe the pronunciation of mental disorders, like
schizophrenia, that are produced by the interaction of a vulnerable hereditary predisposition,
with precipitating events in the environment. Nature (genetic) vs nurture (stress).
Schizophrenia and bipolar look at this module.
Acetylcholine - Answer✔this neurotransmitter occurs in cholinergic tracts extending from the
limbic structures to the cortex, and a decrease in concentration is associated with memory and
cognitive impairments. An increase is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Cortisol - Answer✔a potent stress hormone that mobilizes energy stores, stimulates the release
of glucose, potentiates the release of adrenaline, increases cardiovascular tone, and inhibits
growth, immune, and inflammatory responses. An increase leads to cell atrophy and a decrease
leads to cell growth. Weight gain, PTSD.
Dopamine - Answer✔produced in the substantia nigra and other areas in the brainstem, it is a
key neurotransmitter for motor action and the reward system. Too much may change mood,
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Nurs 661 Exam Questions And Answers
|Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Unconscious incompetency: - Answer✔Novice no experience, governed by rules and
regulations
2.Conscious incompetency: - Answer✔Advanced beginner recognizes aspects of situations and
makes
3.Conscious competency: - Answer✔Competency/Proficiency 2 to 5 years' experience,
coordinates complex care and sees situations as wholes, and long-term solutions
4U.nconscious competency - Answer✔Expert flexible, efficient, and uses intuition.
Attunement - Answer✔describes how reactive a person is to another's emotional needs and
moods. A person who is well attuned will respond with appropriate language and behaviors
based on another person's emotional state. Are you able to read social cues? Verbal or non-
verbal, whether to engage with it or not
Egocentrism: - Answer✔is the inability to differentiate between self and other. More
specifically, it is the inability to untangle subjective schemas from objective reality and an
inability to accurately assume or understand any perspective other than one's own. All about
me, especially in teens and kids.
Minimizing: - Answer✔downplaying the significance of an event or emotion—is a common
strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt. In teens. Not to minimizing patient's problem.
Normalizing their situation is good but not minimizing.
Neuroplasticity: - Answer✔also known as brain plasticity, neuroelasticity, or neural plasticity, is
the ability of the brain (cortex) to change continuously throughout an individual's life, e.g.,
brain activity associated with a given function can be transferred to a different location, the
proportion of grey matter can change, and synapses may strengthen or weaken over time.
Therapy can help to change the brain.
Nurturing: - Answer✔the entirety of climate-related aspects which impact the growth and
actions of an individual. Psychologists have displayed specific interest in sociosocial and
1
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ecological factors, like family characteristics, child-rearing traditions, and economic status. Can
be immature or maladaptive
Overdeterminism: - Answer✔occurs when a single-observed effect is determined by multiple
causes, any one of which alone would be sufficient to account for the effect. That is, there are
more causes present than are necessary to cause the effect. Problem may come from different
source.
Reframing: - Answer✔Developing a new conceptual or emotional outlook relating to situations
experienced, and putting it into another frame which follows the facts or evidence equally well,
changing its whole definition. Reconstruction of a subject's experiential view to impart a more
positive view of it. Method for changing self-defeating thought processes by consciously
inserting more positive ones. Restarting
Resilience - Answer✔The ability to adapt or rebound quickly from change, illness, or bad
fortune. Also known as: psychic resilience; psychological resilience. Able to handle stress. May
have a genetic component.
Know what the adaptive information processing model and what it is used for. - Answer✔The
AIP model was developed by Shapiro through her development and observations of the effects
of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 2001). AIP
hypothesizes that humans have an inherent information processing system that usually
processes experiences to a physiological adaptive state in which information can be taken in
and learning can occur. This model posits that there is an innate self-healing quality in the brain
that strives to regulate its internal environment to survive and to maintain a stable, constant
condition by means of dynamic regulation. Positive and negative experiences affect
neurophysiological harmony. Optimally, memory is stored in a way that allows for connection
with other adaptive memory networks. how traumatic memories are stored in the brain.
Know what the Diathesis-Stress model is what it is used for: - Answer✔Theory stating that
mental and physical disorders develop from genetic or biological predisposition combined with
stress. This theory is often used to describe the pronunciation of mental disorders, like
schizophrenia, that are produced by the interaction of a vulnerable hereditary predisposition,
with precipitating events in the environment. Nature (genetic) vs nurture (stress).
Schizophrenia and bipolar look at this module.
Acetylcholine - Answer✔this neurotransmitter occurs in cholinergic tracts extending from the
limbic structures to the cortex, and a decrease in concentration is associated with memory and
cognitive impairments. An increase is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Cortisol - Answer✔a potent stress hormone that mobilizes energy stores, stimulates the release
of glucose, potentiates the release of adrenaline, increases cardiovascular tone, and inhibits
growth, immune, and inflammatory responses. An increase leads to cell atrophy and a decrease
leads to cell growth. Weight gain, PTSD.
Dopamine - Answer✔produced in the substantia nigra and other areas in the brainstem, it is a
key neurotransmitter for motor action and the reward system. Too much may change mood,
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