A Nurse Asks a Patient, "If You Had Fever and Vomiting

question 25

Multiple Choice

A nurse asks a patient, "If you had fever and vomiting for 3 days, what would you do?" Which aspect of the mental status examination is the nurse assessing?

• A) Behavior
• B) Cognition
• C) Affect and mood
• D) Perceptual disturbances

Differentiate between sensory, short-term, and long-term memory in terms of capacity and duration.

Describe how schemas and chunking influence memory organization and retrieval.

Recognize the role of encoding specificity and context-dependent memory in recall.

Understand the hierarchy and structure of memory encoding processes (structural, phonemic, and semantic).

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Definitions:

Acquisition

Acquisition refers to the initial stage of learning when a response is first established or the phase during which a new behavior is being learned.

Extinction

In psychology, the process through which a previously reinforced behavior is weakened by the removal or absence of reinforcement.

Conditioned Taste Aversion

An acquired response where an individual avoids consuming a certain food or drink because it has been associated with an unpleasant outcome, such as nausea or sickness.

Evolutionary Theory

A scientific explanation for the diversity of life, proposing that species change over time through natural selection and genetic variation.