Behavioral & Mental Health
Learning Objects
Dive into Wisc-Online’s rich collection of learning objects — bite-sized, interactive, and designed for real learning. These modular digital tools include animations, drag-and-drop exercises, quizzes, videos, and more. You can explore topics across STEM, arts, humanities, career skills, and beyond. Each learning object is crafted to help learners actively engage with content—reviewing, applying, self-checking—in a way that’s flexible and self-paced.
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Alcohol and the Job
Learners evaluate and respond to excuses for not reporting alcohol-related behavior they have observed on the job. This activity has audio content.
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safety
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human
The learner will explore basic human limitations that create barriers to critical thinking including selective thinking, false memories, and perceptual limitations.
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belief, biases, confirmation biases, critical, critical thinking, employability essentials, false memories, lack of information, perception limitation, selective thinking, soft skills
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Errors in Judgment
The learners will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.
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critical thinking, decision, decision-making, errors, judgment, soft skills
Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles
The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.
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ad hominem fallacy, advertising, authority effect, bandwagon effect, communication skills, critical, critical thinking, external influences, fallacies, internal influences, poisoning the well, red herring, shoehorning, soft skills, thinking skills, using emotion
Critical Thinking: Applying Analysis Steps to a Situation (Screencast)
The learner reviews steps in analyzing a process and applies them to a situation in his/her own work or personal life.
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analyze, critical, implement, improvement, measure, observe, outcomes, process, suggestions, test, thinking
How the Brain Develops (Screencast)
In this interactive learning object, learners study the parts of the brain and then test their knowledge in a drag-and-drop exercise.
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Hypersensitivity
In this interactive object, learners review the four types of hypersensitivity and check their knowledge of alternative names, mediators, and various antigens and disease conditions.
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IT Stress Management - Diet and Exercise
In this learning activity you'll examine how diet and exercise affect stress.
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diet, exercise, how can I reduce my stress, how does diet affect my stress levels, stress
IT Stress Management - Root Cause
In this learning activity you'll explore how finding and understanding the root cause of stressors can help reduce stress in your life.
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goal setting, goals, how do I reduce stress, soft skills, stress, stress management
IT Stress Management - Volunteerism
In this learning activity you'll discover how volunteering, developing outside interests, and setting aside time for hobbies all help reduce stress.
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hobbies, hobby, how can I reduce stress, INTERFACE, stress, volunteer
Learning About Multiple Intelligences in the Land of Oz (Screencast)
In this screencast, students read about the seven types of intelligence identified by psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner. They then review the type(s) of intelligence of each character in the Land of Oz.
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Left- and Right-Brain Thinking Modes (Screencast)
In this interactive object, learners examine the characteristics of left- and right-brain thinkers.
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assistant, brain, instructional, left, right
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Exercise
In this learning activity you'll use Maslow's Hierarchy and choose which need is taking precedence and which is being sacrificed in each situation.
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heirarchy, hierarchy, malsow, Maslow, needs, pyramid
Organization: The Second Stage in the Perception Process (Screencast)
The student will read a mini-lecture explaining the organization stage in the perception process and will complete an activity.
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organization, perception
Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human
The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.
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belief, biases, communication, confirmation bias, critical, critical thinking, decision-making, false memories, interference, lack of information, perception limitations, perspective, problem-solving, soft skills
Perception - Understanding the World Around You
Learn the definition of perception, its process and how it affects communication
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communication, perception, soft skills
Questioning Assumptions (Screencast)
Learners watch a commercial for a fictitious product and pose questions to challenge the assumptions made in it.
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assumptions, Big E, commercial, critical, Energy enhancement, evaluate, facts, questioning, thinking
Reality Shock (Screencast)
Learners examine the phases and characteristics of the reality shock experienced by nurses. They also identify strategies to deal with reality shock and with the transition from student nurse to registered nurse.
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novice, nurse, stress, transition
Recharging Your Attitude
Learners will determine if they are satisfied with their attitudes and then rank tips for regaining a positive disposition in the workplace.
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attitude, attitude of gratitude, attitudes in the workplace, disposition, how to relieve stress, positive disposition, productivity, self-improvement tips
Religions of the World
In this learning activity you'll analyzes the structures and processes of religion within a global context.
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Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, what are the religions of the world, World religions
Religions of the World - Buddhism
In this learning activity you'll analyze the structures of Buddhism and identifies the countries with the largest Buddhist populations.
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Buddhism, What countries have the largest Buddhist populations
Religions of the World - Judaism
In this learning activity you'll use a map to identify the 10 countries with the largest populations of Jewish people.
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What countries have the largest Jewish communities, Where are the largest Jewish communities
Selection: The First Stage in the Perception Process (Screencast)
In this learning activity you'll review the selection stage in the perception process and apply the information to complete an activity.
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motives, perception, selection, selective perception, stimuli, what is the perception process
Socialization: The Process of Becoming Ourselves
In this learning activity you'll review socialization and agents of socialization and create your own lifeline.
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how do events impact your life, how do i create my own timeline, What are the agents of socialization
The Development of the Self-Concept (Screencast)
In this screencast, we'll review the role of significant others in the development of the self-concept
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perceive ourselves, self concept, self-concept
The Perception Process (Screencast)
In this screencast you'll define how perception influences your world view and learn the elements of the perception process.
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how do we perceive the world, how does perception influence my world view, perception, the perception process
The Reality of Sterotypes
In this learning activity, the user will understand how believing in and using common stereotypes can get in the way of working together.
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communication barriers, communication skills, stereotypes, teamwork, working together
Transactional Analysis: Self Test
In this learning activity you'll identify examples of Eric Berne's theory on transactional analysis.
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Eric Berne, How do I self test for Transactional Analysis, Transactional analysis, What is Transactional Analysis