Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Reduced Affect Display, 18 Months, Mirror Neuron

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Prosocial behaviour any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person: can happen out of self-interest or altruism. Wants to maximize rewards and lower costs. Prosocial acts are doubly rewarding as they help the person and the help the donator feel better about themselves: can result in physical changer, pain, embarrassment and monetary loss. Empathy the ability to experience events and emotions the way another person experience them: our ability to put ourselves in another person"s hoe, linked to mirror neurons. Empathy altruism hypothesis the idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help them purely for altruist reasons, regardless of what we must gain. Perspective taking a process in which we consider what another person might be thinking or feeling in a given situation: when we take another"s perspective also often experience empathy. In group the group with which an individual identifies and of which they feel a member.