Final Exam – Module 1 – Deconstructing Empathy

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The key difference between pro-social responses is in the giver’s perspective and the impact on the recipient. 

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Mirror neurons are so numerous in the human brain they are considered to comprise hard-wired systems in the brain that operate to produce a non-cognitively mediated “embodied simulation experience.” This phenomenon allows us to sense/feel the other’s experience on an unconscious, kinesthetic level. The embodied simulation phenomenon helps make the cognitive processes associated with empathy, including the ability to take the “as if” stance more effective, thus supporting our ability to tune in to another’s inner experience without merging or projecting personal feelings.

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Sympathy can reinforce a sense-of-self that may be organized around feelings of victimhood, powerlessness and low-self-esteem.

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Your attempt to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and tune in to their inner experience is either a conscious or unconscious process. 

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“Mirror Neuron Systems” – Mirror neurons are so numerous in the human brain they are considered to comprise hard-wired systems in the brain that operate to produce a non-cognitively mediated “embodied simulation experience.” This provides an automatic, hard-wired connection between individual minds that helps us feel each other’s feelings and emotions without cognitive thought processes.

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Our ability to be empathic requires both embodied simulation (non-cognitive mirroring) made possible by our mirror neuron systems, as well as the cognitively driven process of choosing how we respond to the other in the moment, i.e., putting yourself in the other person’s shoes.

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“Mirror Neuron Systems” provide a hard-wired basis for empathy and a connection between individual minds that helps us feel each other’s feelings and emotions kinesthetically, in our bodies…

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Childhood (and adult) relational experiences create neural representations and synaptic firing patterns in the brain that strengthen overtime with repetition. They will continue to strengthen unless they are “perturbed” and replaced with new neural representations. 

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Theory of Mind… we assume others have a mind that operates like our own and we project our internal mental and emotional states onto them.

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