CIE 2 Unit 2

She ___ off to be comforted by her mother, as though it were she who had been hurt.

And 15-month-old Michael went to get his own teddy bear for his crying friend Paul; when Paul kept crying, Michael ___ Paul's security blanket for him.

Both these small acts of caring were observed by mothers trained to record such ___ of empathy in action.

The results of the study suggest that the roots of empathy can be traced to ___.

Virtually from the day they were born, infants are ___ when they hear another infant crying -a

response some researchers see as the earliest form of empathy.

Psychologists have found that infants feel ___ distress even before they realize that they exist separately from other people.

This confusion is seen too when one-year-olds imitate the distress of someone else, possibly to help ___ what they are feeling.

On seeing his mother cry, one baby ___ his own eyes, though there were no tears.

Motor mimicry ___ from toddlers' behavior at around two and a half years of age.

She then tries to ___ his hair, but he pulls away ..