Peter and Gordon are teaching their kids the difference between empathy and compassion. What should they tell their children?
What will be an ideal response?
Empathy involves feeling others' emotional experiences, whether those are positive or negative. Compassion does not necessarily involve feeling emotions but does involve a motivation to ease another person's suffering.
Psychology
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Psychology
According to the Zeigarnik effect, when subjects are allowed to complete some tasks but not others, ____.
a. the completed tasks are remembered better than the uncompleted tasks b. the uncompleted tasks are remembered better than the completed tasks c. neither completed not uncompleted tasks are remembered very well d. complete and uncompleted tasks are remembered equally well
Psychology