What does the empathic joy hypothesis suggest, and what is a real-life example that illustrates this hypothesis?
What will be an ideal response?
The empathic joy hypothesis suggests that a person who helps another enjoys the positive reactions shown by others whom they help. An example of this is illustrated in the feeling one gets after bestowing a gift upon another person, especially one you care about, and seeing that person smile and show pleasure as a result of receiving the gift.
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a. schizophrenia b. depression c. bipolar illness d. anorexia nervosa
The validity of a syllogism depends on
A. the truth of its premises. B. the truth of its conclusion. C. its form. D. both the truth of its premises and the truth of its conclusion.
Dr. Gillis has decided to use ____ in his research to guard against both experimenter bias and participant expectations.?
a. ?confounds b. ?random selection c. ?the placebo effect d. ?the double-blind design
Every time Erwin cried, his father would immediately pick him up and he would stop crying. Now almost as soon as Erwin's dad gets home from work, he picks Erwin up. Based on what is known about operant conditioning, you should conclude that for Erwin's father, when the crying stopped it acted as:
a. a positive reinforcer for picking Erwin up b. a conditioned stimulus for picking Erwin up c. a negative reinforcer for picking Erwin up d. an unconditioned stimulus for picking Erwin up