The Patient Requires Routine Temperature Assessment but Is Confused and Easily

question 21

Multiple Choice

The patient requires routine temperature assessment but is confused and easily agitated and has a history of seizures.The nurse's best option would be to take his temperature

• A) Orally.
• B) Tympanically.
• C) Rectally.
• D) By the axillary method.

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Definitions:

Discrimination Learning

The process of learning to respond differently to various stimuli, distinguishing between those that are rewarded and those that are not.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was originally conditioned.

Second-order Conditioning

A form of learning where a stimulus that initially had no significance becomes conditioned as a result of being paired with another stimulus that already induces a conditioned response.

Contiguous

Contiguous means sharing a common border or being in direct contact with something, indicating physical proximity or adjacency.