A Client Self-Monitors the Amount of Food She Eats from the Time

question 3

Multiple Choice

A client self-monitors the amount of food she eats from the time she comes home from work until she retires for the evening. This method of recording would be considered:

• A) continuous.
• B) sporadic.
• C) scheduled.
• D) time sampling.

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Definitions:

Sensory Adaptation

The process by which a sensory system becomes insensitive to a constant stimulus over time.

Sensory Receptors

Highly specialized cells in the sense organs that detect and respond to one type of sensory stimulus—light, sound, or odor, for example—and transduce (convert) the stimuli into neural impulses.

Stimulus

A stimulus is any event or situation that evokes a response from an organism.

Sensation

The process of detecting physical stimuli from the environment and converting them into neural signals that the brain can interpret.