PSY311H1 Lecture 7: PSY311 Lecture 7
Document Summary
Other-oriented emotional response elected by and congruent with perceived welfare of someone else . A ective empathy (more personal focused: you feel stress and feel bad but not for anyone) Emotional contagion (catching the vibe: you don"t know why you"re feeling the way you feel b/c the emotion doesn"t come from yourself, it comes from ext. cues) Sympathy (feel other"s feeling w/o having emotional response) Perspective taking (ability to put yourself in other"s situation) How do we learn empathy? parenting that teaches perspective-taking skills is associated with empathy in children. Protection domain parenting (parent is the one who gives kids emotional support) Modeling empathic behaviour parents show kid how to deal w/ someone who"s in need. Promotes emotion regulation acknowledge and understand kid"s emotion response and teach them how to calm self down in this way, kid know how to regulate own emotion and learn to help others calm down (build er skills)
