Hospital Admissions in Which the Individual Agrees to Treatment and to Stay

question 2

Multiple Choice

Hospital admissions in which the individual agrees to treatment and to stay as long as treatment is deemed necessary is identified as which of the following?

• A) Outpatient commitment
• B) Involuntary commitment
• C) Emergency hospitalization
• D) Voluntary admission

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

Generalization

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses. In operant conditioning, generalization occurs when responses learned in one situation occur in other, similar situations.

Discrimination

The unfair or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, often based on race, age, sex, or disability.

Classical Conditioning

An acquisition method where two stimuli are frequently paired; the response, at first prompted by the second stimulus, is later prompted by the first stimulus in isolation.