Jerrod and Greg take part in a psychology experiment. They are told they could either receive $100 right now, or some other amount of money 1-month from now. They are asked how much money they would need to receive in 1-month in order to choose that option rather than to take the $100 right now. Both Jerrod and Greg say they would need to receive quite a bit more money 1-month from now in order to choose that option. Jerrod and Greg’s behavior is most consistent with what decision-making issue?

A political scientist is interested in US citizen’s opinions about US troops being withdrawn from Syria. He randomly phones 1000 individuals who have identified themselves as belonging to the Republican political party. He randomly assigns 500 of the individuals to Group 1 and asks them the following: “Republican Senator Lindsay Graham has said that he believes that troops should be kept in Syria. Do you believe that troops should be kept in Syria?” He finds that 80% of the respondents believe that troops should be kept in Syria. He assigns the remaining 500 individuals to Group 2 and asks them the following: “Democratic Senator Charles Schumer has said that he believes that troops should be kept in Syria. Do you believe that troops should be kept in Syria?” He finds that 20% of the respondents believe that troops should be kept in Syria. The difference in the percentage of respondents who believe that troops should be kept in Syria in Group 1 and Group 2 illustrates what decision-making issue?

The nurse receives an order to administer 200 mg of levothyroxine IV. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?

When Mitch was 18 years old, he wasn’t paying very careful attention while driving one day. Because of this he struck and seriously injured a biker with his car. Mitch had always thought of himself as a careful driver. As such, this accident created a strong internal sense of psychological conflict and discomfort in Mitch. The sense of discomfort that Mitch felt when he realized his belief about his carefulness was in conflict with his behaviors (where he didn’t pay attention while driving), is known as:  

The students in Dr. Brown’s Introduction to Psychology class took four separate fifteen-question quizzes on the course content every week for 16 weeks (a total of 960 practice questions completed). The students in Dr. Michel’s class waited until two days before the final exam to start studying. Over those two days, they did the same total number of practice questions as those in Dr. Brown’s class (960). You would expect the students in Dr. ________ class to perform better on the final exam because ________________.

Patrice is a collegiate basketball player. Many athletes, including Patrice, show activation of the sympathetic nervous system (e.g., heart rate, breathing rate, and perspiration all increase) right before they start to play a game. One season, Patrice hears a song while studying. The song doesn’t lead to any changes in her physiology the first time she hears it, but she decides that she’s always going to listen to this same song right before her games that season. After the season is over, the song once again comes on while Patrice is studying, and she’s surprised to find that as soon as she hears the song, her heart rate and breathing rate suddenly increase just like they typically would right before a basketball game. In this example of classical conditioning, the song is the:

The nurse is observing a student nurse giving ear drops to an adult patient who has an infection in their left ear. The nurse will intervene if the student:

The nurse overhears a prescriber talking about a medication that can change the color of the irises of the eyes from hazel to brown. The nurse knows the medication that the prescriber is discussing is:

Jada lives in a one-bedroom apartment. The person who lives above Jada constantly listens to music turned up very loud when Jada is trying to sleep. Jada thinks this incredibly annoying and has troubling sleeping because of the music. Jada finds that if she turns on the fan in her room, the white noise created by the fan removes her ability to hear the annoying music upstairs. Over time Jada becomes more and more likely to sleep with the fan on because of this fact. This would be an example of what type of operant conditioning?

Theo is trying to decide which of two types of motorcycle to buy. Initially he rates the two types as being pretty much the same. On a scale of 1-100 (with 100 being the best), he rates Motorcycle A as a 75 and Motorcycle B as a 70. He then reads an article that says that Motorcycle A has many mechanical flaws that make it likely to constantly need expensive maintenance. This causes his rating of Motorcycle A to shift dramatically down to a 50. He shows the article to a friend of his who is a motorcycle expert. The friend laughs and says that everything in the article is completely false and that the author of the article is known to hate Motorcycle A. This makes Theo feel a bit better about Motorcycle A. He changes his rating of Motorcyle A again, now up to a 65. The fact that Theo’s final rating of Motorcycle A (rating = 65) doesn’t return to what it was before he learned the false information (rating = 75) is consistent with what decision-making issue?