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How do principles of operant conditioning apply to parenting and behavior modification?

A new graduate nurse comes to work and complains of being tired all the time. The nurse states “All clients are liars and you can’t trust anything that a client tells you.” What phase of reality shock is this nurse in?

Companionate grandparents are usually characterized by which of the following?

An emergency department (ED) charge nurse receives a telephone call from emergency medical service (EMS) providers that a tornado has hit a local residential area and reports numerous casualties have occurred. The victims will be brought to the ED. What is the charge nurse’s priority action?

Bill is having a hard time making friends. Often, he misses social cues that his peers make, such as continuing an activity after everyone left, or not saying, “hi” back to them when they greet him. He really enjoys cars and trucks and will sometimes discuss it, even when his peers try to talk to him about something else. Which of the following developmental disorder / learning disability is likely affecting Bill?

What is adult neurogenesis in the brain?

Sternburg focused on the notion that all types of love are comprised of three distinct areas:

Arjun’s mom is baking a cake. He realizes that once the batter is mixed, the ingredients cannot be separated out. Which principle of concrete operational thought is Arjun using here?

The emergency department (ED) nurse is treating a client admitted with a pH of 7.22 PaCO2 of 30 mm Hg, PaO2 of 90 mm Hg, and HCO3 of 14 mmol/L. What  is the best intervention to treat this client?

With respect to Behaviorism (Skinner specifically), a reinforcer is: