Mindy Is in Nursing School and Is Learning How to Measure

question 194

Multiple Choice

Mindy is in nursing school and is learning how to measure a patient's blood pressure. Her instructor first shows the class a video that demonstrates the proper procedures for measuring blood pressure and then demonstrates these same procedures using Mindy as a "patient." Mindy and her class are learning how to measure blood pressure in patients through the use of:

• A) operant conditioning.
• B) observational learning.
• C) latent learning.
• D) classical conditioning.

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