What kind of listening involves imagining yourself in the other person's position so you can better understand what he or she is thinking?
appreciative
reflective
critical
empathic

D) empathic.

Explanation:

empathic is when you put yourself in others shoes, by imagining what they must be going through.

Empathic listening.

Explanation:

Empathic listening focuses on the actual understanding of the speaker's thoughts. This listening process goes beyond the active listening and moves towards empathy that implies the listener imagining himself in the speaker's position which consequently gives a clear idea of his/her thoughts to the listener. As we know 'empathy' relates to the identification and understanding of the thoughts and perceptions of the others and "empathic listening' affiliates to the speaker when he/she requires a solution to the problem without discussing it actively. Thus, "empathic listening" is the listening technique that involves the listener's "empathy" to understand the speaker's state of mind and thoughts.

reasoning from several particular examples to establish a general principle

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.