NURS 204

Question 1

Social Self

Answer 1

Different depending on context of interactions i.e. friends, family, professional work.

Question 2

Material self

Answer 2

Possessions, body, physical

Question 3

Symbolic Self-awareness

Answer 3

Using symbols to represent ourselves to others

Question 4

Objective Self-awareness

Answer 4

Think about one’s own thoughts and state of mind while thinking

Question 5

Subjective Self-awareness

Answer 5

Differentiate self from environment

Question 6

Self-reflexiveness

Answer 6

The ability to think about what we are doing as we are doing it.

Question 7

Mindfulness

Answer 7

Ability to consciously think about what you are doing rather than responding out of habit.

Question 8

Personality

Answer 8

-Who you think you are based on your own perception.

-Enduring internal predisposition and behavioural characteristics that describe how people react to their environment.

Question 9

(SRNSA) Practice standards (2019)

Answer 9

27 identifying the effect of own values, beliefs, and experiences in relationships w/ clients, recognizing and addressing potential conflicts.

Question 10

Relational Orientation

Answer 10

• Focusing your attention beyond only interpersonal aspect as well as focusing on intrapersonal aspect.
• A way of thinking.

Question 11

What are the phases of Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships?

Answer 11

1. Orientation phase
2. Working phase
3. Termination phase

Question 12

Therapeutic relationship

Answer 12

A constructive, purposeful relationship focused on the needs of the client.

Question 13

What are some core concepts of a therapeutic relationship?

Answer 13

-establishing support trust
-self-awareness and self-knowledge
-intentionality
-empathy
-confidentiality
-awareness of ethics, boundaries, and limits

Question 14

Other-oriented

Answer 14

To be aware of thoughts, needs, experiences, personality, etc. of your communication partners while still maintaining your own integrity.

Question 15

Communication

Answer 15

Process of acting on information

Question 16

What is human communication?

Answer 16

The process of making sense of the world and attempting to share that sense with others by using non-verbal and verbal communication.

Question 17

Interpersonal Communication

Answer 17

1. a distinctive, transactional form of human communication.
2. involving mutual influence
3. for purpose of maintaining a relationship

Question 18

Impersonal communication

Answer 18

Communication that occurs when we treat people as objects or when we respond to their roles.

Question 19

Intrapersonal Communication

Answer 19

Communication within one’s own mind

Question 20

Self-awareness

Answer 20

• Allows you to understand other people
• Having a clear perception of your personality, including strength weaknesses, motivation.

Question 21

Self-absorbed

Answer 21

Only concerned with own self, personal context, internal messages.

Question 22

Self-esteem

Answer 22

• What you think you’re worth
• Your perception of skills and appearance and how they are valued in society.

Question 23

Social decentering

Answer 23

Cognitive process in which you take into account another person’s thoughts, feelings, values, and perspective.

Question 24

Self-disclosure

Answer 24

• Purposely providing information to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them.
• Interpersonal relationships cannot be achieved without self-disclosure.
• Allows another person to understand you.
• Conveys your level of trust and acceptance to another person.

Question 25

Self-concept

Answer 25

A person’s subjective description of who they think they are.

Question 26

Perception

Answer 26

The process of experiencing your world and then making sense of what you experience.

Question 27

How to check your perception:

Answer 27

• Observe non-verbal behaviour.
• Form a mental impression of what you think they mean.
• Ask whether your perception is accurate.

Question 28

Johari Model of Self-disclosure

Answer 28

Framework for understanding conscious and unconscious bias that can help increase self-awareness and our understanding of others.

Question 29

Passive vs. Active Perception

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Passive - perception that occurs without conscious effort (what we hear, see, and smell).

Active - perception that occurs because you seek out specific info through intentional orientation (watching people).

Question 30

Interpersonal perception

Answer 30

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting one’s observations of other people.

Question 31

3 Stages of perception:

Answer 31

1. selecting - tune in
2. organizing - categorize perceptions
3. interpreting - make sense of perceptions

Question 32

Listening process

Answer 32

• selecting
• attending
• understanding
• remembering
• responding

Question 33

Interpersonal relationship

Answer 33

A perception shared among two people of an ongoing connection.

Question 34

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 34

What people believe about themselves often comes true bec they expect it to come true.

Question 35

Value

Answer 35

An enduring concept of good and bad; right and wrong.

Question 36

Beliefs

Answer 36

The ways in which you structure your understanding of reality; what is true and not true.

Question 37

Attitude

Answer 37

Learned predispositions to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favourable or unfavourable way.

Question 38

Spiritual self

Answer 38

The essence of your feelings about yourself.
- Thoughts and values.

Question 39

Critical listeners

Answer 39

Are good at evaluating information they hear.
- Look for errors

Question 40

Task-oriented listeners

Answer 40

Focused and achieve an outcomes or accomplishing a task.
- Time sensitive

Question 41

Relational learners

Answer 41

listen with emotions, express with emotions. show empathy.

Question 42

Analytical learners

Answer 42

focus on facts and tend to withhold judgement before reacting a specific conclusion.