Domains of Learning - Patient Education

Question 1

Occurs in three domains: cognitive (understanding), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (motor skills).

Answer 1

Learning

Question 2

Cognitive =

Answer 2

understanding

Question 3

Patients with diabetes learning how diabetes affects the body and how to control blood glucose levels for better health is an example of this learning domain.

Answer 3

Cognitive domain

Question 4

Affective =

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attitudes

Question 5

Psychomotor =

Answer 5

motor skills

Question 6

Patients with diabetes learning to accept the chronic nature of diabetes through positive coping mechanisms is an example of this learning domain.

Answer 6

Affective domain

Question 7

Patients with diabetes learning to test their blood glucose levels at home with a glucose meter is an example of this learning domain.

Answer 7

Psychomotor domain

Question 8

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● May involve nurse and one patient or nurse with several patients

● Promotes active participation and focuses on topics of interest to patient

● Facilitates peer support

● Enhances application and analysis of new information

Answer 8

Discussion (one-on-one or group)

Question 9

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● Can involve individual or group

● Facilitates cultural relevance and safety

● Enhances application of new information to a familiar context

Answer 9

Storytelling

Question 10

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● Formal method of instruction because it is teacher controlled

● Helps learners acquire new knowledge and gain comprehension

Answer 10

Lecture

Question 11

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● Designed specifically to address patient’s concerns

● Assists patient in applying knowledge

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Question-and-answer session

Question 12

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● Encourages patient to actively apply knowledge in controlled situation

● Promotes synthesis of information and problem solving

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Role play and discovery

Question 13

This cognitive teaching method includes the following:

● Assists patient to assume responsibility for learning at own pace

● Promotes analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of new information and skills

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Independent projects (e.g., computer-assisted instruction) and field experience

Question 14

This affective teaching method includes the following:

● Encourages expression of values, feelings, and attitudes

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Role play

Question 15

This affective teaching method includes the following:

● Enables patient to acquire support from other people in group

● Encourages patient to learn from other people’s experiences

● Promotes responding, valuing, and organizing

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Discussion (group)

Question 16

This affective teaching method includes the following:

● Facilitates discussion of personal, sensitive topics of interest or concern

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Discussion (one-on-one)

Question 17

This psychomotor teaching method includes the following:

● Provides presentation of procedures or skills by nurse

● Encourages patient to model nurse’s behaviour

● Allows nurse to control questioning during demonstration

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Demonstration

Question 18

This psychomotor teaching method includes the following:

● Enables patient to perform skills by using equipment in a controlled setting

● Allows repetition

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Practice

Question 19

This psychomotor teaching method includes the following:

● Enables patient to perform skill as nurse observes

● Provides excellent source of feedback and reinforcement

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Return demonstrations

Question 20

This psychomotor teaching method includes the following:

● Requires teaching method that promotes adaptation and initiation of psychomotor learning

● Enabled learner to use new skills

Answer 20

Independent projects and games

Question 21

Includes all intellectual behaviours and requires thinking.

Answer 21

Cognitive learning

Question 22

In the hierarchy of cognitive behaviours, the simplest behaviour is re___, whereas the most complex is cr___.

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re-membering / cr-eating

Question 23

This domain of learning includes the following:

• Remembering: the ability to learn new information and to retrieve knowledge from long-term memory
• Understanding: the ability to construct the meaning of learned material
• Applying: the use of abstract, newly learned ideas in a practical situation
• Analyzing: the breaking down of information into organized parts and determining how the parts relate to one another
• Evaluating: making judgements based on criteria and standards
• Creating: combining elements to form a coherent and functional whole

Answer 23

Cognitive learning

Question 24

Concerns expressions of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or values.

Answer 24

Affective learning

Question 25

Values clarification is an example of this domain of learning.

Answer 25

Affective learning

Question 26

The simplest behaviour in the affective learning hierarchy is rec___, and the most complex is cha___.

Answer 26

rec-eviving / cha-racterizing

Question 27

This domain of learning includes the following:

• Receiving: the willingness to attend to another person’s words
• Responding: active participation through listening and reacting verbally and nonverbally
• Valuing: attachment of worth to an object, concept, or behaviour, demonstrated by the learner’s actions
• Organizing: development of a value system by identifying and organizing values and resolving conflicts
• Characterizing: action and response with a consistent value system

Answer 27

Affective learning

Question 28

Involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and muscular activity, such as the ability to walk or to use an eating utensil.

Answer 28

Psychomotor learning

Question 29

The simplest behaviour in the hierarchy of psychomotor learning is per___ and the most complex is origin___.

Answer 29

per-ception / orgin-ation

Question 30

This domain of learning includes:

• Perception: awareness of objects or qualities through the use of sense organs
• Set: a readiness (mental, physical, or emotional) to take a particular action
• Guided response: the performance of an act under the guidance of an instructor, involving imitation of a demonstrated act
• Mechanism: a higher level of behaviour by which a person gains confidence and skill in performing a behaviour that is more complex or involves several more steps than does a guided response
• Complex overt response: the smooth and accurate performance of a motor skill that requires a complex movement pattern
• Adaptation: the ability to change motor response when unexpected problems occur
• Origination: use of existing psychomotor skills and abilities to perform a highly complex motor act that involves creating new movement patterns

Answer 30

Psychomotor learning