A Patient Reports Seeing a "Frightening" Face on the Wall

question 25

Multiple Choice

A patient reports seeing a "frightening" face on the wall of the dayroom.A nurse attempts to calm her by providing an explanation for the flawed perception of what she saw.The nurse would implement this strategy by stating:

• A) "Let's see if anyone else has seen those frightening faces on the walls of the dayroom."
• B) "The shadows of the tree outside the window make strange shapes on the dayroom walls."
• C) "Have you ever seen frightening faces like that on the dayroom walls before today?"
• D) "Did someone in the dayroom tell you there were frightening faces on the walls?"

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Definitions:

Observational Conditioning

A learning process where an individual acquires behaviors by observing and imitating others.

State-Dependent Learning

The theory that information learned in a specific state of mind (e.g., emotional, physiological) is more easily recalled when in that same state.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral signal that, once linked with an unconditioned stimulus, ultimately elicits a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.