ATS2875 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Electrodermal Activity, Cordelia Fine, Psychopathy
13 Sep 2018
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Responsibility: psychopathy and the purposes of punishment - It is a associated with a number of affective deficits; empathy, somatic marker generation, fear: been suggestions that these are important in moral development. Fear, moral development and psychopathy: eysenck has suggested that the fearful anticipation of punishment is an important part of socialisation. It has been stressed the importance of fear as a facilitator of the development of moral conscience. Empathy, moral development and psychopathy: hoffman regards empathy as requiring the involvement of psychological processes that make a person have feelings that are more congruent with another"s situation than with his own situation. He focuses particularly on empathetic distress, the affective response to another"s distress: blair"s account attributes an equally key role to affective responsiveness to another"s distress. He proposes that during development the aversive arousal produced by perceiving distress in others becomes associated with acts that cause distress.
