The question of ______ and how it communicates often figures prominently in whether we perceive someone as caring and compassionate.

Describe an experience that you have had with someone much older than you who was trying to create identification through the practice of convergence. Using information from the text, analyze why, in your judgment, that effort was successful or unsuccessful.

What will be an ideal response?

The first of the five activities of listening is __________, in which we focus on one sound as we sort through various sounds competing for our attention.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).