empathy training

1. a systematic procedure to increase empathetic feeling and communications in an individual.

2. training to enable convicted abusers to envision their victims’ feelings and become sensitive to the pain they have caused, with the aim of decreasing the likelihood that they will commit similar crimes in the future.

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Psychology term of the day

November 22nd 2024

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.