Empathy is defined as an ability to understand the feelings, desires, ideas, and behaviors of others in order to understand the show. The ability to understand other people is to some extent innate to all people and is called natural empathy. Lack of empathy leads to dysfunction in the sociological environment. Therefore, it is important to include prosocial behavior from the earliest child. This final paper explains what empathy is, the history of empathy, the development of empathy, the types of empathy, such as: predictive, cognitive, and emotional empathy. It also provides a mutual charateristics between empathy and altruism, and the connection between empathy and prosocial behavior. The paper describes the situational determinants of prosocial behavior, which are gender differences, availability, cultural differences and circumstances. The relationship of communion versus exchange is also addressed. It also describes how effectively they will observe how children need to learn in order not to be empathetic and how they can behave pro-socially.