A Client with an Inflamed Appendix Is Feeling Pain in the Stomach

question 25

Multiple Choice

A client with an inflamed appendix is feeling pain in the stomach area. What is the term for this body response to stress?

• A) Local adaptation syndrome
• B) General adaptation syndrome
• C) Physiological homeostasis
• D) Fight-or-flight response

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

A method of therapy rooted in operant conditioning principles, which aims to substitute negative behaviors with positive ones using either rewards or penalties.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of learning through continual pairing of two stimuli; a behavior that initially results from the second stimulus later results from only the first stimulus.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned reaction.

Extinction

The gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response.