A Nurse Is Caring for a Patient with Presbycusis

question 22

Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a patient with presbycusis. Which assessment finding indicates an adaptation to the sensory deficit?

• A) The patient frequently cleans out eyes with saline washes.
• B) The patient applies different spices during mealtime to food.
• C) The patient turns one ear toward the nurse during conversation.
• D) The patient isolates self from social situations with groups of people.

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Definitions:

Schemas

Frameworks of knowledge and assumptions that we have about people, objects, and events.

Bartlett

Frederic Bartlett, a pioneering cognitive psychologist known for his work on memory and cognition, particularly on how people reconstruct the past.

Misinformation Effect

Erroneous recollections of witnessed events that result from information learned after the fact.

Loftus's 1978 Study

A landmark research study by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus that demonstrated the malleability of human memory through the misinformation effect.