CIE 2 Unit 2

She (a)   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 (a)   Paul's security blanket for him.

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

The results of the study suggest that the roots of empathy can be traced to (a)   .

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

response some researchers see as the earliest form of empathy.

Psychologists have found that infants feel (a)   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 (a)   what they are feeling.

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

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

She then tries to (a)   his hair, but he pulls away ..