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:

Recall

The ability to access and retrieve information from one's memory.

Recognize

The cognitive process of identifying a previously encountered or learned piece of information or object.

Relearning

The process of learning material or skills that were previously learned and then forgotten.

Encoding Specificity Principle

A principle in psychology that suggests the recall of information is more effective when the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.