Psychology questions

[Centaur6]

I was just taking a look at definitions of some terms, when i stumbled upon the following. The term "objective" means "perceptible to the external senses." What exactly are the external senses? And why can't sympathy be perceived by them, but empathy can? Furthermore, why is empathy critical, but not sympathy? Thanks.

 

[Centaur6]

No psych majors here? Come on, where you hidin?

 

[amnesiac]

What psych course are you taking?

And wtf are these questions? Is that from Abnormal psych?

 

[Centaur6]

Not taking any course

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

is this your homework?


can you observe empathy? I dunno... I guess so, but you would need to define your construct of empathy, then you need to operationalize it... (what observable events signal that someone is empathizing?)...

Of course you have to do these things with sympathy too.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Centaur6
No psych majors here? Come on, where you hidin?

LMAO. What timing. I had one Psych class in college that was not really a psych class. I never went and bullsh!tted my way though the final. Don't ask me

 

[DurocShark]

critical objective emotions suck.

IIRC, empathy is an emotion that only exists if it's displayed, while sympathy is a feeling that doesn't necessarily have to be displayed.

Is that right? Crap, it's been a LONG time... heh

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Centaur6
Not taking any course

I can explain empathy and sympathy but this whole business about being "Critical" is foreign to me.

External senses are your basic ones - sight, touch, etc.

 

[Centaur6]

Originally posted by: yamahaXS
is this your homework?


can you observe empathy? I dunno... I guess so, but you would need to define your construct of empathy, then you need to operationalize it... (what observable events signal that someone is empathizing?)...

Of course you have to do these things with sympathy too.

You know what, i need to learn how to read. It said that sympathy is usually nonobjective. Alright, now that we have that out of the way, what do they mean by critical and noncritical?

 

[Centaur6]

^

 

[Centaur6]

No one here knows what critical and noncritical mean?