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primary empathy

an approach to client-centered therapy in which the therapist actively tries to experience the client’s situation and then to restate it from the client’s point of view and emotional standpoint.

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analogies test

analogies test

a test of the participant’s ability to comprehend the relationship between two items and then extend that relationship to a different situation: For example, paintbrush is to paint as pen is to ___.