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Question #1

Empathy (in a scientific sense) refers to:

A. The ability to feel what another person is feeling

B. The ability to tell if another person is lying

C. The ability to care that another is in distress

Question #2

The identifiable victim effect refers to:

A. The tendency to feel more compassion for a single identifiable victim than for many unidentified/unseen others

B. The tendency to feel more compassion for people who are identified as similar to you

C. The tendency to feel less compassion for a single identifiable victim than for many unidentified/unseen others

Question #3

If people are forewarned that they may be asked to help others:

A. They tend to reduce the compassion they feel for increasing numbers of sufferers

B. They tend to increase the compassion they feel for increasing numbers of sufferers

C. The level of compassion they feel for single versus multiple sufferers remains constant

Question #4

The compassion we feel for those experiencing a given victimization or tragedy increases if:

A. The victims are members of our own social group

B. The victims are members of a different social group

C. The victims are attractive

Question #5

Experiencing motor synchrony with other people makes you feel:

A. More powerful than them

B. More ethical than them

C. Similar to them

Question #6

From an evolutionary biological perspective, we feel more compassion toward some people than others because:

A. They are more dominant and might punish if we were to refuse to help

B. They are higher in status and thus can help us more

C. They are the ones who are most likely to reciprocate if we ourselves are in need

Question #7

Practicing mindfulness meditation increases compassionate behavior:

A. True

B. False

Question #8

Practicing mindfulness meditation reduces aggression:

A. Only toward people who haven’t directly wronged or harmed you

B. Only toward people of your own group who have directly wronged or harmed you

C. Toward anyone who has wronged or harmed you

Question #9

Compassion felt toward one person can reduce your tendency to punish another person who commits a transgression:

A. True

B. False

Question #10

People discount the value of future rewards relative to present ones (e.g., they’d view $100 they’d receive in a year as worth significantly less than $100 they’d receive today)?

A. False

B. True

Question #11

Intertemporal choice refers to:

A. Choices for which preferences are constant over time

B. Choices that cannot be made with any certainty

C. Choices that have different consequences as time passes

Question #12

Which of the following sequences is correct for how the three variables unfold through time?

A. Empathy --> Prosocial Behavior --> Compassion

B. Empathy --> Compassion --> Prosocial Behavior

C. Compassion --> Empathy --> Prosocial Behavior

Question #13

Facing past adversity in life makes people less compassionate in the future.

A. True

B. False

Question #14

A “bystander situation” – one in which other people pass by a person in distress – makes it:

A. More likely that a new person entering the scene will help the person in distress

B. Less likely that a new person entering the scene will help the person in distress

C. Equally likely that a new person entering the scene will help the person in distress (i.e., doesn’t affect the new person’s likelihood of helping).

Question #15

Meditation makes it more likely that people will punish those who harm others.

A. True

B. False

Question #16

Reciprocal altruism within evolutionary biology means:

A. Organisms will only help others to whom they’re related

B. Organisms will help others to whom they’re not related in order to ensure returned favors in the future

C. Organisms always offer others less help than they themselves have received

Question #17

A zero-sum game is one in which a gain for one person necessitates a loss for another.

A. False

B. True

Question #18

From an evolutionary perspective, a society where everyone always acted altruistically toward others would be stable over time (i.e., easy to maintain)

A. True

B. False

Question #19

If someone is in the midst of a difficult situation (i.e., experiencing present adversity as opposed to past adversity), her or his experience of compassion toward others will be:

A. Decreased

B. Enhanced

C. Unchanged

Question #20

Interdependence among a group of people makes it:

A. Less likely that they’ll feel compassion for each other

B. More likely that they’ll feel compassion for each other

C. Doesn’t affect the compassion that they’ll feel for each other

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