Define empathy, compassion, and describe how they are different from one another.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Empathy is a cognitive ability to understand another person’s perspective; Compassion is the desire or motivation to help another.
Learning Objective: 4
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: p. 151, Empathy and Compassion
Difficulty Level: Medium
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a. ?a nightmare b. ?sleep terror disorder c. ?a lucid dream d. ?an episode of sleep apnea
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1 A positive correlation between smoking and mental illness is evidenced by the fact that people who smoke are more likely to have a mental illness 2 Cause and effect cannot be demonstrated by observing natural correlations 3 When a correlation is observed between two variables, it is possible that one variable is causing the other 4 The matched samples technique attempts to eliminate the third-variable problem by holding it constant for each participant 5 Matched samples effectively rule out specific third-variable correlations, but matched pairs do not
Without some correction, such as the Spearman-Brown formula, a correlation measuring split-half reliability will tend to overestimate the reliability for the full test
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Men are viewed as more attractive by women when they are
a. introverted. c. submissive. b. agoraphobic. d. fond of children.