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:

Voracious Eaters

Individuals or animals with a very keen or insatiable appetite for food.

Motor Development

The progression of muscular coordination and the ability of individuals to move and control their bodies.

Cephalocaudal

From head to tail.

Proximodistal

From the inner part (or axis) of the body outward.