In improving our ability to empathize, ________ allows you to determine whether you have correctly understood someone else's perspective.
A) recipient reaction
B) social support
C) sympathetic responsiveness
D) perception checking

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Perception checking involves restating a person's message in your own words to confirm your understanding and to allow the speaker to clarify any misunderstandings. This process helps improve empathetic understanding by ensuring that we have correctly understood the other person's perspective. The other choices (recipient reaction, social support, and sympathetic responsiveness) do not necessarily involve this process of clarifying and checking understanding.

In Improving Our Ability to Empathize, ________ Allows You to Determine