Core Principles & Fundamentals Flashcards
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In Rosenberg's model of life-alienating communication, phrases such as "I had to" or "Company policy made me" are examples of which pattern?
Answer: Denial of responsibility
Language like "have to" hides our own choice, so Rosenberg calls it denial of responsibility.
Rosenberg often quoted which thinker as saying that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence?
Answer: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rosenberg credited this line to the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
A participant says, "You never help with the dishes." From an NVC view, what is the main problem with this as an observation?
Answer: It mixes evaluation into the observation through the overgeneralization "never"
Words like "never" and "always" turn an observation into an evaluation that tends to provoke defensiveness.
Which statement expresses a genuine feeling rather than a "faux feeling" that blames someone else?
Answer: I feel discouraged
"Discouraged" describes an inner state, while the other words suggest what someone else did to us.
According to NVC, what most reliably shows whether something is a request or a demand?
Answer: How the speaker responds if the listener says no
If a "no" is met with blame, guilt, or punishment, the request was really a demand.
Which request best uses NVC's positive action language?
Answer: Would you be willing to let me finish my sentence before you respond?
Positive action language names a specific thing the person can do, not something to stop or a vague quality.
Rosenberg described four options for receiving a hard-to-hear message. Which of these is NOT one of them?
Answer: Ignore the message
The four options are blaming ourselves, blaming others, sensing our own feelings and needs, and sensing theirs.
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