What is the difference between sympathy and empathy? Provide an example of each to support your response.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The difference between sympathy and empathy is that with sympathy, we feel sorrow or concern for another person, whereas with empathy we share another person's emotions.
2. A child may exhibit empathy by feeling upset when her friend falls down on the playground. That same child may show sympathy when her friend falls by being concerned about her friend's well-being.
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How do women and men compare in their abilities to detect emotions from nonverbal cues?
a) Women are better at decoding certain emotional states such as fear than men. b) Men are better at decoding certain emotional states such as anger than women. c) Men are generally better able to detect someone's emotional state from nonverbal cues than women. d) Women are generally better able to detect someone's emotional state from nonverbal cues than men.
An athlete who blames herself for her team's loss, even though the whole team played badly, or a man who hasn't had a traffic accident in 20 years who still thinks he is a bad driver because of a dent he put in his car 21 years ago, is engaging in _______
a. codependency tendencies b. handicapping strategies c. cognitive dissonance d. cognitive distortions
Compare and contrast the nonbenzodiazepine depressants. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each as treatments for insomnia and anxiety?
What will be an ideal response?
In research studies, psychopaths failed to learn to avoid punishment and __________.
A. did not cognitively understand the connection between a behavior and its consequence B. felt a great deal of anticipatory anxiety about punishment, leading to impulsive behaviors C. did not show normal fear-potentiated startle responses D. showed greater than normal fear-potentiated startle responses