Ch. 2 The Sonographer: A Closer Look

Question 1

Accountability

Answer 1

Responsibility for one’s actions

Question 2

Acoustic enhancement

Answer 2

Area of brightness distal to weakly attenuating reflectors

Question 3

Acute

Answer 3

Sudden onset

Question 4

Agreeable

Answer 4

One’s tendency toward being accommodating, caring, and trusting

Question 5

Altruism

Answer 5

Selflessness, taking others’ perspectives, AND showing concern for others for the sake of the other rather than oneself

Question 6

Anechoic

Answer 6

Without echoes

Question 7

Assertiveness

Answer 7

Being self confident without being aggressive

Question 8

Big five personality traits

Answer 8

Structure used for the classification of personality traits. AKA the five factor model

Question 9

Burnout

Answer 9

Work-related condition during which one experiences physical and emotional exhaustion.

Question 10

Callback pay

Answer 10

Additional monies earned because one is asked to return to work after normal business hours, results from taking call

Question 11

Character

Answer 11

The way a person thinks, feels, or acts.

Question 12

Chronic

Answer 12

Gradual onset or an ongoing condition

Question 13

Clinical correlation

Answer 13

The process of obtaining clinical history and contrasting that information with sonographic findings

Question 14

Clinical correlation ambiguity

Answer 14

Lacking the ability to obtain a thorough clinical history and relate the information with the sonographic findings of the examination

Question 15

Clinical hypothesis

Answer 15

Educated guesses based on clinical history findings

Question 16

Cognition

Answer 16

The act or process of knowing