Define Informed Consent, and Summarize the Joint Commission's Standard for Informed

question 49

Essay

Define informed consent, and summarize The Joint Commission's standard for informed consent.

Understand the concept of race as a social construct and its implications.

Analyze the relationship between race, class, and capitalism in the United States.

Recognize the impact of media portrayals on societal perceptions of race and class.

Identify the effects of policies that consolidate historic injustices along racial lines.

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Definitions:

Resistance To Extinction

The persistence of learned behavior or response even after the original stimulus (e.g., reinforcement) is no longer present.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Reinforcement

A process in behavioral psychology where the probability of a behavior occurring is increased or decreased through the use of rewards or punishments.

Stimulus Discrimination

The acquired skill to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and various other stimuli that have not been associated with an unconditioned stimulus.