【新标准大学英语-综合教程2】02-1教师版2

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Unit 2 Mixed Feelings
Active Reading 1 How Empathy Unfolds同感是怎样表露的
Starting point
1.Questions: What are the seven emotions and the six sensory pleasures七情六欲?
2.Discussion: Are you an emotional person?
●what an emotional person is like
●the earliest emotions you can remember in your life
●one of the emotions you felt last time (happy, angry, shy, sad, depressed, frightened, annoyed, upset) ? Phrases and Expressions
Text How Empathy Unfolds同感是怎样表露的
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1.The moment Hope, just nine months old, saw another baby fall, tears welled up in her own eyes and she crawled
off to be comforted by her mother, as though it were she who had been hurt.
Hope was only a nine-month-old. But at the instant another baby had a fall, she seemed to feel the same pain and, with tears in her eyes. she tried to get comfort from her mother
2.Virtually from the day they are born infants are upset when they hear another infant crying – a response some see as
the earliest precursor of empathy.
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3.Developmental psychologists have found that infants feel sympathetic distress even before they fully realize that
they exist apart from other people.
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4.Such motor mimicry, as it is called, is the original technical sense of the word empathy as it was first used in the
1920s by E. B. Titchener, an American psychologist.
5.Titchener's theory was that empathy stemmed from a sort of physical imitation of the distress of another, which
then evokes the same feelings in oneself.
6.He sought a word that would be distinct from sympathy, which can be felt for the general plight of another with no
sharing whatever of what that other person is feeling.
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7.Motor mimicry fades from toddlers' repertoire at around two and a half years, at which point they realize that
someone else's pain is different from their own, and are better able to comfort them.
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8.At this point in their development toddlers begin to diverge from one another in their overall sensitivity to other
people's emotional upsets, with some, like Jenny, keenly aware and others tuning out.
Patterns for imitation
1.The moment sb. does sth.
The moment Hope, just nine mon ths old, saw another baby fall…
2.On doing sth.
On seeing his mother cry, one baby wiped his own eyes, though they had no tears.
Substitution work
Empathy, once known as motor mimicry, originates from physical imitation of others’ distress, which then arouses the same feelings in oneself. Children seem to feel other children’s pain and discomfort from the day they are born—much earlier than they realize they exist as individuals.
By one year old, they start to learn the misery is some one else’s but still seem confused about what to do. At around two and a half years, children may grow out of motor mimicry when they are able to differentiate their own feelings from others’ feelings, so they are able to use other means to comfort other s. At the same time, their empathic concern。