Which of These Is a Feeling Validation

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a feeling validation?

• A) "You feel sad about losing your mom"
• B) "You wish you could change how things worked out between you and your mother"
• C) "Underneath your sadness, I sense a little resentment"
• D) "It's okay to feel sad about losing your mother. That's perfectly normal."
• E) "There's just no replacing her."

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A common tendency to attribute success to personal characteristics and failures to external factors for self-enhancement.

Actor-Observer Bias

A cognitive bias where individuals attribute their own actions to external situations while attributing others' actions to their personalities or dispositions.

Defensive Attribution

A psychological process by which individuals tend to attribute causes for successes and failures in a way that protects self-esteem.

Warm and Responsive

Warm and responsive describes a caregiving approach that is emotionally supportive and attuned to the needs of others.