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CharlieWard

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on: Jul 11, 2018
The nurse observes a patient's behavior to assess thought process disorders characterized by bizarre, nonreality thinking. This behavior is indicative of the most profound, disabling mental illness, which is:
 
  a. manic depressive.
  b. schizophrenia.
  c. paranoia.
  d. bipolar.

Question 2

A child who has just begun to demonstrate egocentric thinking is in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
 
  a. Sensorimotor
  b. Preoperational thought
  c. Formal operational thought
  d. Concrete operational thought


Ahnyah

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B
Schizophrenia, a thought process disorder, is one of the most profoundly disabling mental illnesses.

Answer to Question 2

B
Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development includes the development of egocentric thinking (understanding the world from only one perspective, that of the self).


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