The Nursing Student Admits to Being Mildly Anxious About an Upcoming

question 17

Multiple Choice

The nursing student admits to being mildly anxious about an upcoming examination. What is the likely result of this level of anxiety?

• A) The student's attention is focused solely on studying for the examination.
• B) The student's perception and learning are enhanced.
• C) The student's only topic of conversation is the examination.
• D) The student cannot talk about the examination without crying.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion, indicating how far individual numbers in a set are from the mean.

Increase

A rise or growth in quantity, size, number, value, or some other measure.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the number of successes in a fixed number of independent Bernoulli trials with the same probability of success.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers in the set.