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Please rate your ability to explain the critical thinking process and evidence-based practice skills applicable to nursing practice.

What term do we use to refer to “an irrational fear of taking a stand on any moral problem?

Mimansa loves to color and draw in the little sketchbook her Aunt Bhar gave her. One day Aunt Bhar tells her, “Mimansa, I’ll give you 25 cents for any picture you draw for me.” Soon Mimansa finds that her piggy bank is heavier, yet her enthusiasm for drawing and coloring has drastically diminished. Why?

Emily believes that the best way to determine what is right in any given situation is to consider the consequences of her choices.  In weighing out which action to take, she considers everyone who will be affect and chooses the action which cause the least harm to the least number of people.   She is using which approach to ethics?

Susan and Frank are taking a philosophy class.  The instructor challenges them to use their critical thinking skills to evaluate the types of knowledge or information available.  One of the questions they have been discussing in class is “What can be KNOWN and can we be justified in our beliefs about what goes beyond the evidence of our sense? “  Susan and Frank have been studying which of the branches of philosophy?

“Just you wait ’til your father gets home tonight! When I tell him what you’ve done you’ll be punished for sure!” Why is this often-heard strategy, unfortunately present in many households, generally ineffective in changing behavior?

During the late 1800s Hermann Ebbinghaus memorized long lists of nonsense syllables (such as gek, bof, or jeh) and tested his recall over varying time delays. According to his results, when did the greatest amount of forgetting occur?

An illustration from “The Dark Knight” was given in Ethics Unwrapped:Virtue Ethics.  In this illustration, Batman was given an opportunity to kill the joke.  Using this illustration and what you learned from this video clip, which of the following statements is TRUE about how the different theories of ethics would address Batman’s decision?

Phuong has heard many times about how, when she was 3 years old, she smashed both her hands into her chocolate birthday cake. It is a favorite family story, usually told whenever there is a gathering of relatives and especially at birthdays. One day Phuong is flipping through a scrapbook and finds photos of herself, clearly dated on her third birthday, with a strawberry cake in front of her. Photo after photo shows the cake being sliced and distributed, with nary a smudge on her hands nor any chocolate in sight. Which of the following phenomena best accounts for Phuong’s false memory of her third birthday?

One of the worldview questions discussed in the introduction to class is:  Where do we come from?  This question best represents which branch of philosophy?