Question

The nurse is caring for a 4-year-old girl following an appendectomy. The girl becomes fearful and starts to cry as soon as the nurse walks into the room. When the nurse asks about the crying, the girl says, "Nurses who wear shirts with flowers give shots." The nurse understands that this statement is an example of:

Answer 1

Answer:

Transduction

Explanation:

Transduction is a reasoning in which a person co-relate two different situations. In this, the person relates two situations and marks them the same due to the impression of older observation even though they can be related and unrelated.

So here the 4-year-old girl is showing transduction because earlier that nurse wearing shirts with flowers gave shots to the girl so now when she sees that nurse again she relates this situation to the earlier one and starts crying.  

So the statement  "Nurses who wear shirts with flowers give shots" shows that this is an example of transduction.