Learning Summary Test Success

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Liguo Zhang

SLS1501

Learning Summary Test Success

1. What were some interesting details of the reading?

The ways we learn vary from person to person, and even the same one person might have different ways to learn in different situations. It is our benefit to try different learning approaches even though we feel comfortable or succeed with our learning style. Learning is a process that involves in three domains: cognitive domain, psychomotor domain, and affective domain. In nursing school, when we answer question in the tests, we need four types of thinking processes: knowledge, comprehension, application, and analysis. The four types of thinking processes are built on each other that are ordered based on the complexity from lowest level

4. Elaborate in your own words and in more depth or great detail what the chapter in addressing in 10 sentences.

Through learning, we acquire new information (cognitive), attain new physical skills (psychomotor), and form new attitudes (affective). These are the three domains of learning. In cognitive domain, we need to try different way to use all senses to acquire new information. In psychomotor domain, our physical ability is developed from doing, which means we need to transform the information from our head to our hands. In affective domain, we develop new attitudes by exploring feelings from different people through lifelong experience. There are four types of questions related to nursing that need us to have different techniques to answer. The knowledge questions, which are the foundation for critical thinking, require us to remember the information. When answering comprehension questions, we need to use knowledge as base and understand the significance of the information. When answering application questions, we need to know and understand the information first, then apply the information to a presented scenario or even a

It gives me some ideas of identifying three different learning domains. It also tells specifically study techniques that I need to master when I face different questions in nursing program. No matter it is a simple or complex question; I just need to use different level of thinking to solve it.

6. Give one personal, one academic, and a nursing/clinical well-chosen example from real life experiences or actual instances that support your understanding of the reading.

Example 1 (personal): Once my friend asked me if I still remember one of my high school classmates by telling me his name. I couldn’t recall who that person is. Later, after my friend showed me one picture of my classmate, I remember that person. It proved that all senses could acquire information.

Example 2 (academic): when I was learning the formed elements of blood part in anatomy class, it was hard for me to memorize different types of blood cells, which one has greater amount, and which one has less. My professor told us an easy way to remember it in order. Never Let Monkeys Eat Banana, which stands for Neutrophil, Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Eosinophil, and Basophil. After that, I never forget about that