NUR166 CONCEPTS OF FAMILY CENTERED
NURSING EXAM 1 CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND FULL SOLUTION
◉ Behavior. Answer: What we do
◉ Mental processes. Answer: Thoughts, feeling, motives
◉ Pluralistic Ignorance. Answer: An individual who does not believe
but thinks that everyone believes
◉ Dualism (Descartes). Answer: Mind and body are distinct
◉ materialism (monism). Answer: The brain produces the mind,
consciousness is a product of a physical process
◉ Dualism. Answer: Mind interacts with the body but it is separate
form the body
◉ Phineas Gage. Answer: railroad worker who survived a severe
brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior;
case played a role in the development of the understanding of the
localization of brain function
, ◉ Neuroplasticity. Answer: The brain reorganizes itself by forming
new connection throughout life
◉ Nativism. Answer: Everything we know is inherited through out
genes
◉ Empiricism. Answer: Everything we know we know from our
experiences
◉ Structuralism. Answer: Wilhelm Wundt( father of psychology),
Introspections, limitations: subjective, not verifiable, people differ
◉ Functionalism (William James). Answer: Anatomy and physiology,
studied how mental activities help an organism fit into its
environment, Limitation's: uses introspection.
◉ Psychoanalytic theory (Frued). Answer: Studied
conscious/unconscious mind through drea analysis, slips of the
tongue
◉ Gestalt Psychology (Max Wertheimer). Answer: a psychological
approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather
than the sum of the parts
NURSING EXAM 1 CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND FULL SOLUTION
◉ Behavior. Answer: What we do
◉ Mental processes. Answer: Thoughts, feeling, motives
◉ Pluralistic Ignorance. Answer: An individual who does not believe
but thinks that everyone believes
◉ Dualism (Descartes). Answer: Mind and body are distinct
◉ materialism (monism). Answer: The brain produces the mind,
consciousness is a product of a physical process
◉ Dualism. Answer: Mind interacts with the body but it is separate
form the body
◉ Phineas Gage. Answer: railroad worker who survived a severe
brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior;
case played a role in the development of the understanding of the
localization of brain function
, ◉ Neuroplasticity. Answer: The brain reorganizes itself by forming
new connection throughout life
◉ Nativism. Answer: Everything we know is inherited through out
genes
◉ Empiricism. Answer: Everything we know we know from our
experiences
◉ Structuralism. Answer: Wilhelm Wundt( father of psychology),
Introspections, limitations: subjective, not verifiable, people differ
◉ Functionalism (William James). Answer: Anatomy and physiology,
studied how mental activities help an organism fit into its
environment, Limitation's: uses introspection.
◉ Psychoanalytic theory (Frued). Answer: Studied
conscious/unconscious mind through drea analysis, slips of the
tongue
◉ Gestalt Psychology (Max Wertheimer). Answer: a psychological
approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather
than the sum of the parts
