Maryville NURS 661 Exam 1 | Newest
Questions and Answers | 2026 Update
| Expert Verified
• Stages of Learning in Benner's Model -✓✓ Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious competence
• Explain Unconscious Incompetence -✓✓ Novice, we don't know what we don't
know
• Explain Conscious Incompetence -✓✓ Advanced beginner, feeling
uncomfortable about what we don't know
• Explain Conscious Competence -✓✓ Competent/proficient, getting skills and
feeling more confident
• Explain Unconscious Competence -✓✓ Expert, skills become blended together
and become habits
• Attunement -✓✓ in tune to someone's feeling and emotions, reacting to
someone's needs and moods.
• Egocentrism -✓✓ can't differentiate between yourself and others, self-centered,
all about me
, • Neuroplasticity -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ caring, can be a good think or can be maladaptive or enabling.
• Overdeterminism -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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? -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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.)._
Questions and Answers | 2026 Update
| Expert Verified
• Stages of Learning in Benner's Model -✓✓ Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious competence
• Explain Unconscious Incompetence -✓✓ Novice, we don't know what we don't
know
• Explain Conscious Incompetence -✓✓ Advanced beginner, feeling
uncomfortable about what we don't know
• Explain Conscious Competence -✓✓ Competent/proficient, getting skills and
feeling more confident
• Explain Unconscious Competence -✓✓ Expert, skills become blended together
and become habits
• Attunement -✓✓ in tune to someone's feeling and emotions, reacting to
someone's needs and moods.
• Egocentrism -✓✓ can't differentiate between yourself and others, self-centered,
all about me
, • Neuroplasticity -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ caring, can be a good think or can be maladaptive or enabling.
• Overdeterminism -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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? -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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.)._
