A Drug That Might Be Used Specifically to Reduce Heart

question 42

Multiple Choice

A drug that might be used specifically to reduce heart rate in cardiac patients could be .

• A)a beta- blocker
• B)norepinephrine
• C)epinephrine
• D)anticholinesterase

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Definitions:

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to pay more attention to certain stimuli or aspects of the environment over others, often affecting judgments and decisions.

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.