Closed-Ended Questions

question 9

Multiple Choice

Closed-ended questions

• A) Are used to gather specific information
• B) Allow the patient to talk without interruption
• C) Are characterized by the use of reflection
• D) Are used to obtain difficult or emotionally laden material

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Definitions:

Proximate Cause

The primary cause that in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an event and without which the event would not have occurred.

Cause in Fact

A legal principle that establishes an event as the direct cause of an injury, required for proving negligence.

Res Ipsa Loquitur

A doctrine in tort law that infers negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury, in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved.

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) directly leads to the occurrence of another event (the effect).