Author Question: Tina comes home from work to find her roommate, Katie, resting on the couch. Katie has a fever and ... (Read 174 times)

nautica902 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Tina comes home from work to find her roommate, Katie, resting on the couch. Katie has a fever and says she hasn't been able to eat anything all day.

Tina notices dark circles beneath Katie's eyes, and Katie says that she had problems sleeping yesterday. Tina offers to call her father, who is a doctor, to get his advice, but Katie asks Tina not to, saying that she'll be fine. Tina is extremely worried though, and once Katie falls asleep, Tina rushes into another room to call her father. Which component of empathy is Tina displaying? a) Emotional empathy
b) Empathic accuracy
c) Empathic concern
d) Emotional accuracy

Question 2

Emma is trying to convince her professor that he gave her an unfair grade. She continues to pester him for several days, as her arguments become ever more extreme.

Ultimately, the professor tells Emma, II will not change your grade; moreover, you should be thankful for the grade you received Emma's professor likely resisted changing her grade because he ________. a) perceived her as attempting to gain an unfair advantage relative to her classmates
b) saw her as being atypically confrontational and irritating relative to her classmates
c) became convinced she cared nothing for the class but only cared about her image
d) felt strongly that he was being pushed to do something he didn't want to do, rather than being asked