The Graduate Nurse Has an Adequate Understanding of Effective Listening

question 22

Multiple Choice

The graduate nurse has an adequate understanding of effective listening when stating which of the following?

• A)"Limited level of vocabulary often affects listening skills."
• B)"Underdeveloped attention span affects listening skills."
• C)"External noise distractions affect listening skills."
• D)"Emotional reactions interfere with the actual message."

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Definitions:

Nonexperimental Methods

Research designs that do not involve the manipulation of variables or random assignment of participants.

Randomization

Controlling for the effects of extraneous variables by ensuring that the variables operate in a manner determined entirely by chance.

Experimental Control

Eliminating the influence of an extraneous variable on the outcome of an experiment by keeping the variable constant in the experimental and control groups.

Spurious Relationship

A false association between two variables that appears to be causally linked but is actually due to an extraneous variable.