You are interested in exploring empathic responses of a specific counselor trainee. You therefore view all of this trainee's counseling sessions with a client and rate the counselor's responses. This is an example of:
A) a sociometric measure.
B) an event sampling.
C) a time sampling.
D) semantic ratings.

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This is an example of event sampling, which involves observing and recording specific events or behaviors of interest. In this case, the focus is on the counselor trainee's empathic responses, so the observer is sampling events (i.e. counseling sessions) to look for instances of empathic responses. Sociometric measures would involve assessing social relationships within a group or network, semantic ratings involve rating the meaning or significance of words or concepts, and time sampling involves observing and recording behavior at predetermined time intervals.

You Are Interested in Exploring Empathic Responses of a Specific