Adaptation concepts
The process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling people, as individuals or groups, use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration.
What is Adaption?
Actions and reactions under specified circumstances.
What is behavior?
It provokes response.
What is stimulus?
This principle of human nature affirms a common purposefulness of human existence.
What is veritivity?
Internal and external stimulus most immediately confronting the human system.
What is focal stimulus?
The broad movement in philosophy and psychology that recognizes the individual and subjective dimensions of the human experience as central to knowing and valuing.
What is humanism?
Innate or acquired ways of responding to changing environment.
What is coping processes?
This response promotes integrity in terms of goals of human system.
What is adaptive response?
It's described as integrated, compensatory, and compromised.
What is adaptation level?
A set of parts connected to function as a whole for some purpose and that does so by virtue of the interdependence of its parts.
What is system?
A philosophic view of reality which stresses the principle that people and the earth have common patterns and integral relationships.
What is cosmic unity?
This adaptation level is resulting from inadequate integrated and compensatory life processes.
What is compromised process?
Involves four cognitive-emotive channels: perceptual and information processing, learning, judgement, and emotion.
What is cognator subsystem?
All conditions, circumstances, and influences that surround and affect the development and behavior of humans as adaptive systems, with particular consideration of human and earth resources.
What is environment?
Promotion of adaptation in each of the four modes, thereby contributing to health, quality of life, or dying with dignity.
What is the goal of nursing?
These responses do not contribute to integrity in terms of goals of the human system.
What is ineffective responses?
All other stimuli present in the situation that contribute to the affect of a focal stimuli.
What is contextual stimuli?
A state and process of being and becoming integrated and whole.
What is health?
Described as a whole with parts that function as a unity for some purpose. This include people as individuals or in groups including families, organizations, communities, and society as a whole.
What is human adaptive system?
This profession focuses on the life processes and patterns of people with a commitment to promote health and full life-potential for individuals, families, groups, and the global society.
What is nursing?