Empathy

Question 1

Positive emotion

Answer 1

Happiness, joy, surpise

Question 2

Negatiive emotiion

Answer 2

fear, anxiety, stress

Question 3

Social emotion

Answer 3

Empathy, guilt, shame

Question 4

Social emotions require…

Answer 4

require another person be involved in the situation

E.g. cannot feel empathy for self, cannot feel guilt and shame outside context of larger society

Question 5

What is empathy?

Answer 5

Ability to recognize, understand, and care about what another person is thinking/feeling

Question 6

Observation of others in pain - study

Answer 6

Observation of Others in Pain
- Into an fMRI
- Looking at pictures- getting their thumb poked or not
- Mirror in scanner, reflecting television monitor
- Compare conditions
- Limbic system, temporal and frontal cortex , heavily involved in emotional/complex emotional processing
Anterior cingulate

Question 7

Components of empathy

Answer 7

• Emotional contagion
• Perspective of empathy
• Empathetic concern

Question 8

emotional contagion

Answer 8

○ Tendency to catch and feel emotions that are similar to and influenced by those of others

Question 9

Perspective of empathy

Answer 9

○ The recognition or understanding component of empathy

	○ The ability to see something from another's perspective

Question 10

Empathetic concerns

Answer 10

○ The caring component of empathy
The feeling for the other person’s circumstances

Question 11

Emotional contagion and mirror neurons

Answer 11

• Neurons have been identified that activate similarly to the performance and observation of various motor patterns
  • Suggest the possibility of shared neural circuitry for performed and observed action
  • May serve as the basis for observational learning

Question 12

Errors/Performance/Observation Study results

Answer 12

Performed errors
Observed errors

- Measures both MRI(sensitive to where)  and EEG (Sensitive to when)

- Similar dACC activity obtained during both the performance of one's own errors and also the observation of another's error
- Anterior cingulate response occurs in both cases -- in observed and performed error -- relates to social observational learning

Question 13

Observation of others in pain

Answer 13

Found that empathising with other’s pain activated regions associated with affective but not sensorimotor areas of pain

Affective not sensorimotor

Question 14

Psychopathic traits

Answer 14

What their brain mistakes would look like vs others