John says  “I’ve never been to the east coast, but I know that the winters in Wisconsin are colder than the winters in New Jersey.”  This sentence is an example of:

An 8-year-old is discharged from the hospital after admission for acute Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP). The nurse confirms education was understood prior to discharge when the parent states:

Here is a reasoning problem: “If today is Tuesday, then my cognition class meets this afternoon. Today is not Tuesday. Therefore, my cognition class does not meet this afternoon.” What kind of reasoning does this represent?

A nurse is giving education on prevention of neural tube defects to a perinatal group class. Which of the following statements by one of the pregnant persons is correct.

You have a 15 year old patient with newly diagnosed Hodgkin Lymphoma needing future chemotherapy. What is the most developmentally appropriate intervention for this patient?

A nurse is completing an eye assessment on a 1 year old in a clinic setting and is concerned about a whitish “glow” of the left pupil. The nurse would be concerned that this could be a sign of what?

A nurse is caring for a 3 year old patient in the hospital for post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Which of the following nursing interventions would the nurse NOT expect to see ordered for this patient?

When memory researchers study encoding, they are typically looking at

Which of the following best describes the reason for the primacy and recency effect?

Describe and define the cognitive process that students are using when they text during lecture.  According to the research on attention, how effective will learning be while texting? Explain why.