A high-stress situation in which one finds oneself in another culture in which former behavior patterns are ineffective and one fails to understand the basic cues of social intercourse is termed __________________

a. culture bias
b. ethnocentrism
c. culture shock
d. racism

c

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The type of health maintenance organization (HMO) plan that involves contracting with individual physicians to create a healthcare delivery system is a(n):

A. group model. B. individual practice association (IPA) model. C. network model. D. staff model.

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Compared to a normal individual, when a patient with a severe obstructive impairment such as emphysema increases ventilation, which of the following occurs?

a. Carbon dioxide production falls as anaer-obic metabolism increases. b. Oxygen consumption increases at a faster rate than normal. c. Oxygen consumption rises faster than carbon dioxide production. d. The anaerobic threshold is reached later than normal.

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