When Communicating About a Patient with a Health Care Provider

question 5

Multiple Choice

When communicating about a patient with a health care provider from another culture, the nurse states, "The patient stopped taking his medications last week when he fell off the wagon." The health care provider looks at the nurse blankly. This is an example of

• A) connotation.
• B) information processing.
• C) time span between messages.
• D) nonverbal cultural variations.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, evokes a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

An automatic and naturally occurring stimulus that elicits a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Response

A conditioned response is a reaction to a formerly neutral stimulus that, through conditioning, has become linked to an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior conditioning.