During the Neurological Assessment, the Nurse Asks the Client If

question 34

Multiple Choice

During the neurological assessment, the nurse asks the client if she has any problems with her sense of smell. The client relates that she lives near a factory that emits an obnoxious odor, but that she no longer notices the smell. The nurse tells Joan that this phenomenon is normal and is called which of the following?

• A) Tolerance
• B) Adaptation
• C) Acceptance
• D) Adjustment

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list better than the information in the middle or the end.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember and place more importance on the most recently presented information or experiences.

High Distinctiveness

A feature or attribute that makes an individual or object stand out significantly from others in the same category or context.

Kelley's Covariation Model

A theory in psychology that describes the way people assign reasons to events by evaluating the event's consistency, distinctiveness, and the level of agreement among observers.