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Chapter 18

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What is filtration?   The unconscious exclusion of extraneous stimuli in communication.  
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What is blocking?   Occurs when the nurse responds with noncommittal or generalized answers.  
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What is empathy?   The ability to mentally place oneself in another person's situation to better understand the person and to share the emotions or feelings of that person.  
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What is false assurance?   Showing a lack of concern or a lack of knowledge by responding with meaningless answers such as "don't worry."  
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What are preconceived ideas?   Conceptions, opinions, or thoughts that the receiver has developed before having an encounter.  
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What is interpretation?   The individual's analysis of communication that is based on context and environment, precipitating event, preconceived idea, personal perception, style of transmission, and past experiences.  
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What is context?   The entire situation that is relevant to the communication.  
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What is precipitating event?   Refers specifically to the event or the situation that prompted a particular communication.  
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What is personal perception?   Awareness achieved through excitation of all the senses.  
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What is an appeal to common practice?   This occurs when the argument is made that something is okay because most people do it.  
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What is ad hominem abusive?   An argument that attacks the person instead of the issue.  
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What is an appeal to emotion?   An attempt to manipulate other people's emotions for the purposeof avoiding the real issue.  
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What is an appeal to tradition?   The argument that doing things a particular way because they've always been done that way.  
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What is hasty generalization?   Involves coming to a conclusion on the basis of a very small number of examples.  
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What is confusing cause and effect?   When he or she assumes that one event must cause another just because the two events often occur together.  
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What is a red herring?   The introduction of an irrelevant topic for the purpose of diverting attention away from the real issue.  
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What is a straw man?   Occurs when a person's position on a topic is misrepresented.  
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What is a slippery slope?   The belief that one event will inevitably follow another without any real support for that belief.  
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What is passive communication?   A form of communication in which the individual fails to say what is meant.  
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