Psychology

Question 1

What happens during the bargaining stage of grief?

Answer 1

During this stage, the grieving person attempts to avoid the loss by making some kind of “deal,” or wishing she had done so. Bargaining typically manifests before the loss has occurred.

Question 2

What happens during anger stage of grief?

Answer 2

the grieving person might aim feelings of hostility at others, including health care staff, because they cannot cure the disease.

Question 3

What happens during denial stage of grief?

Answer 3

the grieving person cannot or will not believe that the loss is happening or has happened.

Question 4

What happens during depression stage of grief?

Answer 4

the reality of the situation takes hold, and the grieving person feels sad, lonely, and helpless. She might have feelings of regret and self-blame for not taking better care of herself or, in this case, not encouraging her brother to take better care of himself.

Question 5

What are Erikson’s 8 stages of development?

Answer 5

Trust/mistrust (birth to 18 months), autonomy / shame and doubt(2-3 years) , initiative / guilt(3-6 years) industry / inferiority (7-12 years) identity/roll confusion (12-20), intimacy/isolation (20-35) generativity/stagnation(35-65) ego integrity / despair(65+).

Question 6

What is the compensation defense mechanism

Answer 6

Balancing failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment

Question 7

What is the conversion defense mechanism

Answer 7

Transformation from anxiety into physical symptoms that have no cause

Question 8

What is the denial defense mechanism

Answer 8

Avoidance of unpleasant or anxiety provoking situations or ideas by rejecting them or ignoring their existence

Question 9

What is a dissociation defense mechanism

Answer 9

Disconnection of emotional importance from ideas or events and put those emotions at different parts of awareness

Question 10

What is the identification defense mechanism

Answer 10

Attributing someone else’s characteristics to yourself

Question 11

What is the introjection defense mechanism

Answer 11

Adopting of the thoughts and feelings of others

Question 12

Psychosocial

Answer 12

referring to the relationship between and interplay of mental health and interpersonal relations

Question 13

Generativity

Answer 13

the concern for establishing and guiding the next generation that stems from a sense of optimism about humanity

Question 14

Stagnation

Answer 14

the result of stopping progression or forward movement

Question 15

Advance directives

Answer 15

a document that communicates a patients’s specific wishes for end-of-life care should the patient become unable to do so

Question 16

Durable power of attorney for health care

Answer 16

a document in which patients designate someone to make healthcare decisions for them if they are unable to do so themselves

Question 17

Apathy

Answer 17

lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Question 18

Compensation

Answer 18

a method of balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment

Question 19

Conversion

Answer 19

transformation of an anxiety into a physical symptoms that has no cause