NURS2430 Exam 1 Definitions 2025/2026
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Compensation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔used to counterbalance perceived deficiencies by
emphasizing strengths
Conversion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unconscious transformation of anxiety into a
physical symptom with no organic cause
Denial - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings,
wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence
Displacement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the transference of emotions associated with a
particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object or
situation
Dissociation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disruption on consciousness, memory, identity or
perception of the environment that results in compartmentalizing uncomfortable or
unpleasant aspect of oneself
,Identification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔attributing to oneself the characteristics of another
person or group consciously or unconsciously
Intellectualization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a process in which events are analyzed based
on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feelings and
emotion into the processing
Projection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unconscious rejection of emotionally
unacceptable features and attributing them to others
Rationalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas,
actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller and
listener
Reaction formulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔when unacceptable feelings or behaviors
are controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or
emotion
Regression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔reverting to an earlier, more primitive and childlike
pattern of behavior or emotion
Repression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted
experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness
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,Splitting - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the inability to integrate the positive and negative
qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image
Sublimation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an unconscious denial of a disturbing situation or
feeling.
Undoing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔most common in children. When a person makes up for
an act of communication
All or nothing thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔thinking in black and white, reducing
complex outcomes into absolutes
Overgeneralizations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔using bad outcomes as evidence that
nothing will ever go right again
Labeling - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a form of generalizing in which a characteristic or
event becomes definitive and results in an overly harsh label for self or others
Mental filter - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔focusing on a negative detail or bad event and
allowing it to taint everything else
Disqualifying the positive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔maintaining a negative view by
rejecting information that supports a positive view as being irrelevant, inaccurate,
or accidental
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, Jumping to conclusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔making a negative interpretation despite
the fact that there is little or no supporting evidence
Mind reading - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inferring negative thoughts, responses and motives
of others
Fortune telling error - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔anticipating that things will turn out badly
as an established fact
Magnification or minimization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔exaggerating the importance of
something or reducing the importance of something
Catastrophizing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an extreme form of magnification in which the
very worst is assumed to be a probable outcome
Emotional reasoning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔drawing a conclusion based on an
emotional state
"should" and "must" statements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ridged self-directives that
presume an unrealistic amount of control over external events
Personalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔assuming responsibility for an external event or
situation that was likely outside personal control
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Compensation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔used to counterbalance perceived deficiencies by
emphasizing strengths
Conversion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unconscious transformation of anxiety into a
physical symptom with no organic cause
Denial - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings,
wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence
Displacement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the transference of emotions associated with a
particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object or
situation
Dissociation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disruption on consciousness, memory, identity or
perception of the environment that results in compartmentalizing uncomfortable or
unpleasant aspect of oneself
,Identification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔attributing to oneself the characteristics of another
person or group consciously or unconsciously
Intellectualization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a process in which events are analyzed based
on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feelings and
emotion into the processing
Projection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unconscious rejection of emotionally
unacceptable features and attributing them to others
Rationalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas,
actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller and
listener
Reaction formulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔when unacceptable feelings or behaviors
are controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or
emotion
Regression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔reverting to an earlier, more primitive and childlike
pattern of behavior or emotion
Repression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted
experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness
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,Splitting - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the inability to integrate the positive and negative
qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image
Sublimation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an unconscious denial of a disturbing situation or
feeling.
Undoing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔most common in children. When a person makes up for
an act of communication
All or nothing thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔thinking in black and white, reducing
complex outcomes into absolutes
Overgeneralizations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔using bad outcomes as evidence that
nothing will ever go right again
Labeling - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a form of generalizing in which a characteristic or
event becomes definitive and results in an overly harsh label for self or others
Mental filter - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔focusing on a negative detail or bad event and
allowing it to taint everything else
Disqualifying the positive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔maintaining a negative view by
rejecting information that supports a positive view as being irrelevant, inaccurate,
or accidental
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, Jumping to conclusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔making a negative interpretation despite
the fact that there is little or no supporting evidence
Mind reading - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inferring negative thoughts, responses and motives
of others
Fortune telling error - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔anticipating that things will turn out badly
as an established fact
Magnification or minimization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔exaggerating the importance of
something or reducing the importance of something
Catastrophizing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an extreme form of magnification in which the
very worst is assumed to be a probable outcome
Emotional reasoning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔drawing a conclusion based on an
emotional state
"should" and "must" statements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ridged self-directives that
presume an unrealistic amount of control over external events
Personalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔assuming responsibility for an external event or
situation that was likely outside personal control
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