PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Explicit Knowledge, Empathic Concern, Hyperalgesia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Arash Abizadeh

Document Summary

Kitty genovese: stabbed to death outside her apartment. 12-38 neighbors watched but no one called for help. Empathy: the drive to identify another person"s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion . It occurs when the observation or imagination of affective states in another induces shared states in the observer . An affective response more appropriate to someone else"s situation than to one"s own . An emotional response reaction in an observe to the affective state of another individual. Empathy subsumes a variety of dissociable neurocognitive processes: cognitive (tom), motor (perceptual-action), and emotional empathy . Stimulation theory: we understand other"s behaviours by recreating the mental process in ourselves that, if carried out, would produce that behaviour. We use our own recreated mental states to simulate the mental states of others. Tendency to engage in overlapping neural systems when experience a given internal state and observing another in that state.