In Comparison to How Dying Patients Were Cared for Four

question 15

Multiple Choice

In comparison to how dying patients were cared for four or five decades ago, today medical staff members are _____ likely to encourage dying patients to talk about their impending deaths and are _____ likely to be trained in caring for terminally patients.

• A) less; less
• B) less; more
• C) more; less
• D) more; more

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Definitions:

Repeated Exposure

The process of being exposed to the same stimulus or environment multiple times, affecting perceptions or behaviors.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Conditioned Stimulus

A conditioned stimulus is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In behavioral psychology, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior conditioning.