Mary Is Seeing Her Family Physician for a Routine Checkup

question 5

Multiple Choice

Mary is seeing her family physician for a routine checkup and mentions to the nurse that her husband just returned from active duty in the military.He was deployed to Iraq for the last 18 months,and Mary says she is very excited that they will finally be able to "pick up" where they left off.The nurse decides to ask more questions about their marital relationship in this post-deployment period.What is the best rationale for including these assessment questions?

• A) The post-deployment period is often the most difficult time period for veterans and spouses to negotiate.
• B) All veterans experience some PTSD and are unable to return to previous relationship patterns.
• C) Denial about the impact of combat experiences is common in military spouses.
• D) Mary is most likely being abused by her husband and is covering this up.

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Definitions:

Pavlovian Conditioning

A learning process in which an initially neutral stimulus becomes associated with a specific response through pairing with a stimulus that naturally evokes that response.

Instrumental Conditioning

A learning process through which behavior is modified using rewards or punishments, also known as operant conditioning.

Fear Conditioning

A learning process where an organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with an adverse event, leading to a conditioned response to the originally neutral stimulus.

Eyeblink Conditioning

A form of classical conditioning where a subject learns to blink in response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits blinking.