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