Split-brain patients have had their corpus callosum severed. Sometimes, it appears that one hemisphere of the brain doesn’t know what the other hemisphere is doing. What property of consciousness has been affected?

Suppose that you had a dream in which you sat on a campus bench and were bombarded by basketballs; each basketball was embossed with the face of your psychology professor. Your Freudian therapist tells you that the dream reveals an unconscious dislike for the professor. In this dream, the manifest content is the

Jimmy damaged his suprachiasmatic nucleus in an accident. What is likely to be the outcome?

Which drug has a greater negative effect on public health than all other psychoactive drugs combined?

The nurse is planning how to best prepare a 4-year-old child for some diagnostic procedures. Guidelines for preparing this preschooler should include:

A 4-year-old child tells the nurse that she does not want another blood sample drawn because “I need all my insides, and I don’t want anyone taking them out.” Which is the nurse’s best interpretation of this?

What should the nurse include in a teaching plan for the parents of a child with vesicoureteral reflux?

The parent of a 4-year-old child tells a nurse that the child believes there are monsters hiding in the closet at bedtime. Which one of the following statements should the nurse make?

A 7-year-old boy with the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is receiving methylphenidate. His mother asks about its action and side effects. What is the nurse’s initial response?

A nurse is providing teaching about self-administration of insulin to the parent of a school-age child who has a new of diabetes mellitus. Which of the following statements by the parent indicates a need for further teaching?