If You Are Trying to Help a Friend with a Problem

question 540

Multiple Choice

If you are trying to help a friend with a problem, you should do all of the following EXCEPT

• A)letting the person know you are listening, through eye contact, posture, your tone of voice, and your replies.
• B)accepting the person's message without judging it or leaping to conclusions.
• C)asking specific questions to keep the conversation going without any long pauses in the person's flow of ideas.
• D)giving feedback by simply restating what your friend says.

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Definitions:

Unconscious

Relating to the part of the mind that is not currently in focal awareness.

High Road

This refers to the more thoughtful and rational approach to processing emotional experiences, involving higher cognitive functions.

Low Road

An automatic, quick emotional response mechanism, bypassing cognitive processing.

Sleep Spindles

Sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity visible on an EEG that occur during stage 2 of NREM sleep, associated with memory consolidation and sleep maintenance.