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Clarification -Correct Answer ✔-listening response used to ask clients for more
information or for elaboration on a point
restatement -Correct Answer ✔-is an active listening strategy used to broaden a
clients perspective or when the nurse needs to provide a sharper focus on a specific
part of communications
minimal cues -Correct Answer ✔-defined as brief, encouraging phrases and non
verbal prompts , which communicate interest
paraphrasing -Correct Answer ✔-listening response which focuses on the cognitive
component of a message
summarization -Correct Answer ✔-is an active listening skill used to pull several
ideas and feelings together, either from one interaction, or a series of interactions,
into a few succinct sentences
what are the stages of grief -Correct Answer ✔-1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Nonstochastic theories -Correct Answer ✔-explain biological aging as resulting
from a complex, predetermined process
stochastic theories -Correct Answer ✔-view the effects of biological aging as
resulting from random assaults from both the internal and external environment
, cross-linking theory -Correct Answer ✔-a theory of aging that holds that the
stiffening of body proteins eventually breaks down bodily processes, leading to
aging
Free Radicals and Lipofuscin Theories -Correct Answer ✔-suggests that aging is
due to oxidative metabolism and the effects of free radicals
wear and tear theories -Correct Answer ✔-theories that the mechanical functions of
the body simply wear out with age
evolutionary theories -Correct Answer ✔-theories that explain human behavior in
terms of how it contributes to the survival of the species and that look at how our
evolutionary past influences individual development
Biogerontology theory -Correct Answer ✔-connection between aging and disease
processes (bacteria, fungi, viruses)
apoptosis -Correct Answer ✔-programmed cell death
genetic theories -Correct Answer ✔-Programmed theory of aging: humans are born
with genetic program or biological clock that predetermined life span
autoimmune reactions -Correct Answer ✔-primary organs of the immune system,
the thymus and bone marrow, are believed to be affected by the aging process.
neuroendocrine and neurochemical theories -Correct Answer ✔-aging is result of
changes in brain and endocrine glands
radiation theories -Correct Answer ✔-radiation may induce cellular mutations that
promote aging
nutrition theories -Correct Answer ✔-good diet may minimize or eliminate some ill
effects of aging process