Who Is Experiencing an Empathic Response

question 30

Multiple Choice

Who is experiencing an empathic response?

• A) Lily, who is depressed because she lost her job
• B) Daisy, who feels bad that she did not give money to a street person
• C) Rose, who cries as she watches a news documentary featuring a very distraught mother talking about a son she lost to AIDS
• D) Fern, who is excited about going on her first date

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Definitions:

Influence Of Reward

The effect that a reward has on motivating and modifying behavior; key in the study of both operant and classical conditioning.

Cognitive Approach

A perspective in psychology that emphasizes mental processes such as perception, memory, and problem-solving as the basis of behavior.

Mental Processes

Cognitive activities and operations that involve thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and processing information.

Excitatory Potential

The potential for a neuron to be activated or excited, leading it to transmit an electrical impulse.