HCA 101 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Enabling ANSW✅✅misguided "helping" ;an enabler is a person who actually does harm by
supporting a troubled person's continued self-destructive attitude or behavior.
Rescuing ANSW✅✅person sacrificing own safety or needs in order to meet the needs of others
Codependency ANSW✅✅when a friend or family member sacrifices his or her own needs in order
to help an addict.
Pity ANSW✅✅feeling bad for a person from a morally superior standpoint;
Sympathy ANSW✅✅sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
Empathy ANSW✅✅the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's
situation and feelings
Comfort ANSW✅✅a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
Dependency ANSW✅✅being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is
psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Detachment ANSW✅✅avoiding emotional involvement
Grief ANSW✅✅intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Generativity ANSW✅✅the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide
future generations
Ageism ANSW✅✅prejudice or discrimination against the elderly
, Caring ANSW✅✅help others making a difference in their lives trough unconditional acceptance,
positive regard and service
Compassion ANSW✅✅the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy, for the suffering of
others, are regarded as a part of love itself
Smothering ANSW✅✅eating up the other person to fill their own emptiness
Martyr ANSW✅✅manipulating others by using the sense of guilt and obligation
Empowering ANSW✅✅give someone power and confidence
Autonomy ANSW✅✅independence; self-determination
Advocacy ANSW✅✅support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something
Geriatrics ANSW✅✅the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific
to old people
Nurturing ANSW✅✅providing love, support, attention, and encouragement
Passivity ANSW✅✅making no attempt to resolve a conflict
Independence ANSW✅✅self-reliance and freedom from outside control
Interdependence ANSW✅✅condition in which two or more people depend on one another, yet
each maintains a healthy identity
Dysfunction ANSW✅✅abnormal, impaired, or incomplete functioning
ANSWERS
Enabling ANSW✅✅misguided "helping" ;an enabler is a person who actually does harm by
supporting a troubled person's continued self-destructive attitude or behavior.
Rescuing ANSW✅✅person sacrificing own safety or needs in order to meet the needs of others
Codependency ANSW✅✅when a friend or family member sacrifices his or her own needs in order
to help an addict.
Pity ANSW✅✅feeling bad for a person from a morally superior standpoint;
Sympathy ANSW✅✅sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
Empathy ANSW✅✅the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's
situation and feelings
Comfort ANSW✅✅a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
Dependency ANSW✅✅being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is
psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Detachment ANSW✅✅avoiding emotional involvement
Grief ANSW✅✅intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Generativity ANSW✅✅the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide
future generations
Ageism ANSW✅✅prejudice or discrimination against the elderly
, Caring ANSW✅✅help others making a difference in their lives trough unconditional acceptance,
positive regard and service
Compassion ANSW✅✅the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy, for the suffering of
others, are regarded as a part of love itself
Smothering ANSW✅✅eating up the other person to fill their own emptiness
Martyr ANSW✅✅manipulating others by using the sense of guilt and obligation
Empowering ANSW✅✅give someone power and confidence
Autonomy ANSW✅✅independence; self-determination
Advocacy ANSW✅✅support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something
Geriatrics ANSW✅✅the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific
to old people
Nurturing ANSW✅✅providing love, support, attention, and encouragement
Passivity ANSW✅✅making no attempt to resolve a conflict
Independence ANSW✅✅self-reliance and freedom from outside control
Interdependence ANSW✅✅condition in which two or more people depend on one another, yet
each maintains a healthy identity
Dysfunction ANSW✅✅abnormal, impaired, or incomplete functioning
