A nurse asks an adult patient, "Are you going to finish eating your dinner?" The patient yells at the nurse, "You are just like my mother; always trying to make me feel guilty if I don't eat my entire meal." Which occurrence is evident in the patient's statement?

Transference.

Explanation:

Transference is a redirection of emotions, expectations, feelings form a person to another. These redirection of feelings comes out often when the person projects these feelings to the therapist.

Here the client is projecting his/her emotions onto the nurse when she ask the client to finish the dinner. The client related the nurse to his/her mother.