How does empathy combat stereotypes and prejudice?

What will be an ideal response?


Feeling empathy for someone means you have an awareness and sensitivity to what they are feeling. If you can see things through their eyes, you will be less likely to treat them poorly by stereotyping them or treating them with prejudice. You can feel their point of view and will likely have more respect for their differences.

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Work in which you can accomplish something successfully with excellence expresses the value of:

a) recognition. c) independence. b) achievement. d) management.

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Consider the following objective: "Given the length of one side of a right isosceles triangle, the student will determine the lengths of the other two sides without the use of a calculator." Under which classification would this objective be placed?

a) Affective. b) Knowledge and skill. c) Concept. d) Application. e) Psychomotor.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Ethnographic research topics are typically quite limited in scope.

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Fluid intelligence increases until late adolescence and then decreases with age. What brain functions are associated with fluid intelligence?

a. Application of culturally approved problem-solving methods b. Mental efficiency c. Language and verbal skills d. Learned skills such as reading

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