Cognitive Structures Used to Understand the World, Interpret Perception, and Process

question 30

Multiple Choice

Cognitive structures used to understand the world, interpret perception, and process new information are called

• A) gender identity
• B) self-perception
• C) dendrites
• D) schemas

Understand the processes involved in tests for gestational diabetes.

Grasp the importance and timing of tests specific to certain trimesters.

Comprehend methods used for paternity testing during pregnancy.

Acknowledge tests aimed at maternal health monitoring during pregnancy.

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Definitions:

Encouragement

The act of providing support, confidence, or hope to someone.

Task-oriented Touch

A therapeutic method where touch is used purposefully to complete specific tasks or objectives in patient care.

Nursing Theories

A set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive, systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and prescribing.

Benner

Refers to Patricia Benner, a nursing theorist who introduced the Novice to Expert model, outlining the stages of nursing competence.