Which of the following medications poses the greatest risk of adverse effects in the geriatric patient if given at normal doses?

A. lidocaine
B. adenosine
C. midazolam
D. Narcan


Ans: A. lidocaine

Psychology

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A. promoting a "literacy environment" B. encouraging student dependence on offered services C. effective money spending restrictions D. time management

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When individuals who are biologically vulnerable to depression place themselves in high risk stressful environments, it is called:

a. humoral theory the cognitive b. behavioral model' c. the reciprocal gene-environment model d. a stress-depression linkage effect

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Conditioned inhibition is:

a. a loss of responding that results from the repeated presentation of a conditioned stimulus without an unconditioned stimulus b. the return of a conditioned response that had been extinguished, after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus c. learning that an event signals the absence or nonoccurrence of the unconditioned stimulus d. a procedure that uses an established conditioned stimulus to condition a response to a second, neutral stimulus

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Sensory memory:

a. maintains information in a relatively pure, unanalyzed form b. holds analyzed information for brief periods of time c. is also called working memory d. is the system used to maintain information for extended periods of time

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