Maryville NUR 661 Exam 1 questions
with correct answers
Stages of Learning in Benner's Model - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious competence
Explain Unconscious Incompetence - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Novice, we don't know what we don't
know
Explain Conscious Incompetence - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Advanced beginner, feeling
uncomfortable about what we don't know
Explain Conscious Competence - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Competent/proficient, getting skills and
feeling more confident
Explain Unconscious Competence - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Expert, skills become blended together
and become habits
Attunement - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅in tune to someone's feeling and emotions, reacting to
someone's needs and moods.
Egocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅can't differentiate between yourself and others, self-
centered, all about me
Neuroplasticity - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅caring, can be a good think or can be maladaptive or enabling.
, Overdeterminism - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅memory and cognition, if depleted
causes dementia
What is the function of cortisol - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅stress hormone
What is the function of dopamine - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Reward, if too much hallucinations if
too little EPS/Parkinsonian symptoms
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