WGU Objective Assessment Foundation of Nursing Proctored Exam Practice Questions

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• The cerebellum
• The amygdala
• The reticular activating system
• The hypothalamus

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• Albert Bandura
• Carl Rogers
• BF Skinner
• Sigmund Freud

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• As a classically conditioned behavior
• As a visually learned behavior
• As an operantly conditioned behavior
• As a kinesthetically learned behavior

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• Internal locus of control
• Observational learning
• Learned hopefulness
• External locus of control

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• Genes and the environment interact to create expressions of behavior
• Natural selection determines how well humans will adapt to their surroundings.
• Peer and familial influences are crucial for determining behavior
• Genes predict the majority of human environmental behavior

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• "Save some more money so you can afford it in a couple of weeks."
• "Buy a different gift now and buy this gift later for her birthday when you have more money"
• "Take the merchandise without paying so you have the perfect gift for your mom
• "Don't steal it, you might get caught.”

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• Psychodynamic
• Humanistic
• Social-cognitive
• Behavioral

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• They expect a positive outcome
• They enjoy large social interactions.
• They lose touch with reality
• They worry about insignificant details

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• Adaptation
• The level of the group
• Humanistic psychology
• The level of the brain

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• Negative reinforcement involves the use of innate responses
• Negative reinforcement results in the avoidance of the enforcer
• Negative reinforcement increases target behavior
• Negative reinforcement is used to reduce target behaviors.

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• Both depend on observable stimuli and responses
• They are competing concepts, and each is equally effective in explaining the same learned behavior
• Classical conditioning is more applicable to nonhuman behavior and operant conditioning to human behavior
• Both focus on learned responses to fear

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• Having frightening memories located in the subconscious, which is represented by the color green
• Previously encountering something terrifying that involved the color green
• Experiencing a brain injury that resulted in a distorted perception of the color green
• Having very little exposure to the color green as a young child but repeated exposure to other colors

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• Retaining
• Encoding
• Categorizing
• Retrieving