PSYD15H3 Lecture Notes - Autonomic Nervous System, Psychoanalysis, Mirror Neuron
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Psychoanalysis perspective: need identification & awareness of own feelings. 3 components of empathy: 1) self regulation 2) affective arousal sharing: emotion understanding, bottom up: involuntary (child crying at daycare & others doing the same), top down: cognitive part (understanding what they are going through). Negative emotions had strongest autonomic nervous system. Empathy: related but distinct process through which perceivers relate to target. 3 classes: 1) experience sharing 2) mentalizing 3) prosocial concern. Progress: different routes to empathy: experience sharing: neural resonance, mentalizing: midline and superior temporal structures. Variance in empathic process: contextual & individual. 3 shifts: naturalism, brain-behavior links, methodological breadth. Rizzolatti"s findings: ventral pre-motor area of the frontal lobes.
