Exploring Perspective Taking Techniques

The video discusses the importance of perspective-taking, a skill that allows individuals to understand situations from others' viewpoints. It uses a rabbit-duck image exercise to demonstrate how people perceive the same scenario differently. The video explores factors influencing perspectives, such as experiences and biases, and emphasizes the need to reposition oneself to understand others better. It concludes by highlighting the benefits of perspective-taking, including improved empathy, communication, and advocacy for social justice.

What is perspective-taking?

• Only considering your own perspective

• Ignoring other people's feelings

• Agreeing with someone else's viewpoint

• Seeing a situation from another's viewpoint

What does perspective-taking help us understand?

• Only our own feelings

• Others' feelings, intentions, and thoughts

• Only our own intentions

• Only others' thoughts

In the image exercise, what were the two common things people saw?

• A tree and a house

• A car and a bike

• A rabbit and a duck

• A cat and a dog

What does the rabbit/duck image exercise demonstrate?

• Perspective doesn't matter

• People can see different things in the same image

• Images are always clear

• Everyone sees the same thing

Which of the following is NOT a factor that influences perspective?

• Experiences

• Values

• Weather

• Personality traits

How can one's viewpoint change?

• By ignoring others

• By staying in the same place

• By changing physical position or role

• By not considering any factors

What example is used to explain the impact of physical position on perspective?

• A library

• A concert hall

• A classroom

• A football field

What must we do to understand others' perspectives?

• Reposition ourselves physically and mentally

• Only consider our own perspective

• Ignore their viewpoint

• Stay in our own position

What is one benefit of perspective-taking?

• Not communicating with others

• Improving race relations

• Ignoring social justice causes

• Staying in your own viewpoint

How does perspective-taking help in advocacy?

• By improving your ability to understand and connect

• By making you less empathetic

• By ignoring others' viewpoints

• By focusing only on your own issues