If a patient's threshold set point for anxiety is lowered, the nurse can expect subsequent stressors to
a. have a lesser effect.
b. easily reactivate the anxiety response.
c. produce marked personality disorganization.
d. be easily managed using familiar coping strategies.
B
Lowering the threshold set point for anxiety will result in the patient becoming anxious more easily. Thus, lesser effect and ease of handling are incorrect options. Marked personality disorganization would not necessarily occur.
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