A Nursing Instructor Needs to Evaluate Students' Abilities to Synthesize

question 17

Multiple Choice

A nursing instructor needs to evaluate students' abilities to synthesize data and identify relationships between nursing diagnoses.Which learning assignment is best suited for this instructor's needs?

• A)Concept mapping.
• B)Reflective journalling.
• C)Reading assignment with a written summary.
• D)Lecture and discussion.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

Evoked Responses

Electrical potentials recorded from the nervous system following presentation of a stimulus, used to assess sensory function and neural pathways.

Extinction

The process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur. The learned responses are said to be extinguished.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, aiming at increasing or decreasing specific behaviors.