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A Staff Nurse Suspects That Her Friend, Another Nurse on Her

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A staff nurse suspects that her friend, another nurse on her unit, is impaired by illicit drugs. The nurse does not want to get her friend in trouble, but she fears that patients may be harmed. What is this conflict of loyalties an example of?  


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Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a learned response to a specific stimulus is evoked by similar stimuli, indicating a transfer of learning.

Similar Manner

Refers to actions or processes that are alike or nearly identical in method or execution.

Different Stimuli

Refer to various external or internal factors that can elicit responses from an organism or a system.

Ratio Strain

A breakdown in the performance of learned behaviors that occurs when reinforcement schedules are thinned too quickly.

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