A Nurse Is Assessing a Preschool-Age Child and Notes the Child

question 10

Multiple Choice

A nurse is assessing a preschool-age child and notes the child exhibits magical thinking. According to Piaget, which describes magical thinking?

• A) Events have cause and effect.
• B) God is like an imaginary friend.
• C) Thoughts are all-powerful.
• D) If the skin is broken, the child's insides will come out.

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Definitions:

Negative Skew

A distribution where the tail on the left side of the probability density function is longer or fatter than the right side, indicating that the bulk of the values lie to the right of the mean.

Tri-modal Profile

A statistical distribution in which three modes or peaks are present, indicating three dominant values or traits in the data set.

Z Distribution

A normalization of the standard normal distribution, which is symmetric about the mean, showing the relationship between data points and their standard deviations.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of values, with most occurring around a central region.