Maryville NUR 661 Exam 1 – Q&A (Rated A+)
Stages of Learning in Benner's Model ✔️Ans -Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious competence
Explain Unconscious Incompetence ✔️Ans -Novice, we don't know what we
don't know
Explain Conscious Incompetence ✔️Ans -Advanced beginner, feeling
uncomfortable about what we don't know
Explain Conscious Competence ✔️Ans -Competent/proficient, getting skills
and feeling more confident
Explain Unconscious Competence ✔️Ans -Expert, skills become blended
together and become habits
Attunement ✔️Ans -in tune to someone's feeling and emotions, reacting to
someone's needs and moods.
Egocentrism ✔️Ans -can't differentiate between yourself and others, self-
centered, all about me
Neuroplasticity ✔️Ans -neuronal pathways are malleable and adaptable.
The brain responds to things in the environment and it can change, this is
once reason why therapy is pushed because it can change the structure of the
brain if applied correctly.
Nuturing ✔️Ans -caring, can be a good think or can be maladaptive or
enabling.
Overdeterminism ✔️Ans -problem has multiple causes. Someone has
depression from a situation that is prolonged for years, could be taht one
problem or could be biologic where it's genetic, may not be able to pinpoint
, wher the depression is coming from, genetic, situational. Psych patients very
rare it is just one cause.
Resilience ✔️Ans -able to adapt very well, can go through a traumatic event
and maintain good coping skills and mental health.
What is the biomedical holistic model and what is it used for? ✔️Ans -
Biomedical model focuses on the goal of healing, seeing the body as a whole,
seeing both medical and holistic side. Biomedical model treats symptoms,
holistic model treats as a whole, this is combination of both.
What is the Adaptive Information Processing Model ✔️Ans -Taking
information through schemas. The way information is processed. Information
is taken in through senses and connected adaptively to memory networks so
that storing and learning can occur.If brain processing is interrupted due to
the massive influx of hormone and neurotransmitter, these unprocessed
experiences are considered to be the basis of the symptoms and of many
mental health problems. Once information process is interrupted the memory
of the event becomes fragmented and the experience may become
disconnected (a women raped 40 years ago triggered by having sex withe her
partner, etc.)._
What is the Diathesis-Stress model? ✔️Ans -Genetics and stress combined
in diagnosis, so nurture vs nature. Threshold of genetic/nature/diathesis and
environment/stress/nurture. Modeled for schizophrenia and bipolar.
What is the function of acetylcholine ✔️Ans -memory and cognition, if
depleted causes dementia
What is the function of cortisol ✔️Ans -stress hormone
What is the function of dopamine ✔️Ans -Reward, if too much
hallucinations if too little EPS/Parkinsonian symptoms
What is the function of GABA ✔️Ans -Sedation, calm, feel good. Not enough
causes anxiousness.
What is the function of Glutamate? ✔️Ans -On switch, stimulation. Agitates
neurons and is toxic to them.
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