A Nurse Is Applying the Knowledge and Processes of Ethics

question 15

Multiple Choice

A nurse is applying the knowledge and processes of ethics to the examination of ethical problems in health care. Which of the following describes the actions of the nurse?

• A) Values
• B) Morality
• C) Ethics
• D) Bioethics

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to underestimate the importance of situational influences and to overestimate personal, dispositional factors as causes of behavior.

Motivational Bias

A cognitive bias that affects the direction of people's behavior by their underlying motives, desires, or needs.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to prioritize and remember information that is the focus of one's attention, often at the expense of other information.

Actor-Observer Difference

The bias in attribution whereby actors tend to see their own behavior as due to characteristics of the external situation, whereas observers tend to attribute actors’ behavior to the actors’ internal, personal characteristics.