Quiz – Empathy Unpacked

Question 1 of 6

1. Question

According to Decety and Jackson, cognitive empathy is:

Understanding another’s perspective without necessarily feeling it

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Feeling an exact copy of their emotion

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Sharing their distress fully

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Ignoring their perspective

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Question 2 of 6

2. Question

What is affective empathy?

Feeling an echo of someone else’s emotional state

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Purely intellectual perspective-taking

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A leadership decision-making tool

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The choice to take action

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Question 3 of 6

3. Question

How does Batson distinguish compassion?

Recognizing another’s difficulty and choosing to act

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Feeling exactly what the other person feels

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Avoiding the other person’s emotion

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Sharing distress with no action

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Question 4 of 6

4. Question

What does Bloom warn in Against Empathy?

Pure affective empathy can distort judgment and bias us toward those closest

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Compassion is always harmful

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Cognitive empathy is useless

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Empathy is a single, undivided skill

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Question 5 of 6

5. Question

Match each concept to its definition.

Sort elements

Understanding another’s perspective
Feeling an echo of their emotion
Sharing their distress directly
Recognizing difficulty and choosing to act

Cognitive empathy

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Affective empathy

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Sympathy

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Compassion

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Question 6 of 6

6. Question

Which posture combines awareness of another’s difficulty with an intentional choice to help?

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