During an examination,a nurse asks a 5-year-old child to repeat his address. The nurse is most likely evaluating
1. recent memory.
2. language development.
3. remote memory.
4. social-skill development.
Answer:3
Rationale: Asking children to remember addresses,phone numbers,and dates assesses remote-memory development. To evaluate recent memory the nurse would have the child name something and then ask him to name it again in 10 to 15 minutes.Listening to how the child talks and his sentence structure evaluates the child's language development and assessing how he interacts with others evaluates social-skill development.
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