PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Distortion, Narcissism, Relational Aggression
Document Summary
Morality has an emotional component powerful feelings cause us to empathize with another"s distress or to feel guilty when we are the cause of that distress. Morality also has an important cognitive component children"s developing social understanding enables them to make increasingly profound judgments about actions they believe to be right or wrong. Morality has a vital behavioural component experiencing morally relevant thoughts and feelings increases the likelihood, but does not guarantee, that people will act in accord with them. Morally relevant behaviours and emotions have roots in evolutionary history. Animals aid other members of their species at their own personal risk. Empathy, caring and self-sacrifice occur within family in most species, in humans, also with nonrelatives. Areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in emotional responsiveness to the suffering of others and to one"s own misdeeds (functioning of this area improves over first 2 years) Damaged ventromedial and orbitofrontal disrupts social learning leading to antisocial behaviour.
