Chapter 5
Education of adults older than 65 years of age should take into consideration which of the following?
a. Sensory deficits
b. Enhanced short-term memory
c. Increased abstract thinking
d. Strengthened energy reserves
a. Sensory deficits
True or False:
In working with older adults, reminiscing is a beneficial approach to use to establish a therapeutic relationship.
a. True
b. False
a. True
A patient learning assessment reveals that a patient has extreme difficulty comprehending medical terms, even when they are carefully explained in lay terms. This would be classified as:
a. functional illiteracy.
b. computer illiteracy.
c. health illiteracy.
d. low literacy.
c. health illiteracy.
In evaluating a learning outcome, being aware of “saving face” would apply most commonly to which of the following cultural subgroups?
a. Hispanic/Latino
b. Black/African American
c. American Indian/Alaska Native
d. Asian/Pacific Islander
d. Asian/Pacific Islander
Measures the reading difficulty of a test
Fog Index
In developing an orientation program for recently graduated young adult health professionals, the most effective educational activity would be:
a. demonstration, practice, and return demonstration of a skill.
b. a lecture regarding policies.
c. detailed instructions on annual appraisal requirements.
d. creating a schedule of learning activities followed by a multiple-choice test.
a. demonstration, practice, and return demonstration of a skill.
Self-efficacy theory can best be applied by health profession educators in:
a. assessing learner motivation
b. predicting the likelihood of changes in behavior
c. measuring competence
d. cognitive protection
b. predicting the likelihood of changes in behavior
Which of the following would be an indication that a learner has low literacy?
a. “Please read it to me.”
b. “My daughter read this to me and I have a question.”
c. “I don’t understand some of the information you gave me.”
d. “I am very interested in learning more about this.”
a. “Please read it to me.”
Neuroscientists have begun to detect __________ as well as __________ differences in the brains of males and females.
a. structural; psychological
b. sociological; biological
c. biological; psychological
d. structural; functional
d. structural; functional
Provides a consensus of readability for regulatory purposes
Fry Readability Graph
When dealing with the teaching-learning process, it is imperative to examine the __________ phases as individuals progress from infancy to adulthood.
b. developmental
Which of the following implies that the healthcare provider or educator is viewed as the authority, and the consumer or learner is in a submissive role.
a. Resistance
b. Compliance
c. Motivation
d. Determination
b. Compliance
A common misconception regarding written patient education materials that proved unhelpful in-patient learning was that:
a. patients could comprehend the information.
b. patients didn’t have enough information.
c. patients wouldn’t need information.
d. patients would educate themselves.
a. patients could comprehend the information.
An 80-year-old Hispanic woman speaks limited English. Her granddaughter is translating until an interpreter arrives. What could you assess prior to the arrival of the interpreter?
a. Her ability to understand English
b. Her primary medical concern
c. Her religion
d. Her wants as different from those of her family
c. Her religion
Evaluates years of education required to understand a piece of writing
SMOG
__________ and __________ have the potential for significantly changing cognitive and psychological processes used for learning.
a. growing; aging
b. memory; comprehension
c. illness; injury
d. society; environment
c. illness; injury
An individual’s sense of responsibility for his or her own behavior and the extent to which motivation will take action originates from within the self (internal) or is influenced by others (external). This concept is known as:
a. locus of control.
b. internal barriers.
c. compliance.
d. motivation.
a. locus of control.
Which of the following is based on a measure of a number of different elements within a given text of printed material such as level of language being used and layout and design of the page.
a. Comprehension
b. Intelligence
c. Readability
d. Disability
c. Readability
Considering there are differences in brain development between genders as well as environmental and social factors that influence learning, which of the following is an appropriate teaching consideration?
a. Implement separate teaching strategies based on the client being male or female.
b. Females are more achievement motivated than males.
c. Complete an accurate assessment of each client’s strengths.
d. Males tend to pick up subtle tones and facial expressions more easily than females.
c. Complete an accurate assessment of each client’s strengths.
Measures materials between 5th grade to college level
Flesch- Kincaid Scale
Teaching strategies for toddlers should include all of the following except:
a. use of pictures
b. playing music
c. avoiding movement
d. demonstrating on dolls
c. avoiding movement
What of the following terms describes the premises on which an understanding of a phenomenon is based.
a. Incentives
b. Constructs
c. Axioms
d. Motivators
c. Axioms
Which of the following statements is appropriate when writing patient educational material?
a. Use appropriate medical terminology.
b. Include numerous detailed pictures.
c. Keep font size small and sentences long.
d. Have white space and keep the right margin unjustified.
d. Have white space and keep the right margin unjustified.
You find a medicine bag on a female patient’s wound. What action should you take?
a. Explain that Western medicine is better.
b. Explain to the patient that the medicine bag does not have healing properties.
c. Ask the patient what meaning the medicine bag holds for her.
d. Remove the bag from the wound.
c. Ask the patient what meaning the medicine bag holds for her.
Evaluates materials for children ages 1-3
Spache Grade- Level Score