Researchers Say That Empathy

question 12

Multiple Choice

Researchers say that empathy

• A) is unrelated to helping because it includes an emotional component.
• B) is elicited especially by seeing the suffering of dissimilar others.
• C) includes the cognitive component of perspective taking as well as an emotional component of sharing the feelings of another.
• D) reduces helping in men but increases helping in women and has no influence on children or elderly.

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Definitions:

Rejection Regions

Specific areas in the distribution of a test statistic that, if the observed test statistic falls within, will lead to the rejection of the null hypothesis.

Standardized Test Statistic

A calculated statistic that measures the number of standard deviations a sample statistic lies from the null hypothesis, used in hypothesis testing.

Hypotheses

Statements set up for a statistical test that express the relationship between variables. There is usually a null hypothesis (no effect) and an alternative hypothesis (effect present).

Sigma

A symbol (σ) used in statistics to represent the standard deviation of a population.