A 19-Year-Old Patient Is Admitted for the Second Time in 9

question 13

Multiple Choice

A 19-year-old patient is admitted for the second time in 9 months and is acutely psychotic with a diagnosis of undifferentiated schizophrenia.The patient sits alone rubbing her arms and smiling.She tells the nurse her thoughts cause earthquakes and that the world is burning.The nurse assesses the primary deficit associated with the patient's condition as:

• A) Social isolation
• B) Disturbed thinking
• C) Altered mood states
• D) Poor impulse control

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Definitions:

CS

Stands for "Conditioned Stimulus," which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Intero-Exteroceptive Conditioning

a form of conditioning that involves the learning process of associating internal physiological states with external stimuli.

UCS

Unconditioned Stimulus; in Pavlovian conditioning, it is a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.

CS

In psychological contexts, an abbreviation for "conditioned stimulus," a component of classical conditioning referring to a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.