4: Emotional development and attachment Flashcards
What are emotions?
Subjective reactions.
What are emotions usually accompanied by?
Physiological arousal.
Emotions are experienced as either ________ or _________.
Emotions are experienced as either pleasant or unpleasant.
Emotions are communicated to others via:
behaviour.
What are the 2 main functions of emotions?
- Form of social interaction.
2. Reflect mental and physical health.
What are the 4 levels of analysis for emotional development?
Hint: RUDE
- Regulation
- Understanding
- Discrimination
- Emotional expression.
Emotional development: levels of analysis.
What is regulation?
How children modulate their responses in accordance to expected standards.
Emotional development: levels of analysis.
What is understanding?
Identifying the causal relations between emotions and behaviours, and what they communicate.
Emotional development: levels of analysis.
What is discrimination?
Being able to discriminate between different emotions.
Emotional development: levels of analysis.
What is emotional expression?
The different stages at which emotions emerge.
What are the 2 types of emotions?
- Simple.
2. Complex.
What are the 6 simple emotions?
Hint: DISSJF
- Disgust
- Interest
- Surprise
- Sadness
- Joy
- Fear
What is the main quality of simple emotions?
Requires no introspection or self-reflection.
What are the 5 complex emotions?
Hint: JPEGS
- Jealousy.
- Pride
- Embarrassment
- Guilt
- Shame
What is the 2 main qualities of complex emotions?
- Are self conscious emotions.
2. Quire awareness of self and others.
Are expressions of emotion innate?
Positive and negative feelings are conveyed reliably from birth.
According to Lewis (2007) the tripartite division of emotion is comprised of:
1.
2.
3.
(Hint: DIP)
- Distress
- Interest
- Pleasure
According to Bridges (1932) the ‘bipolar’ emotional life is comprised of _________ vs. __________.
(Hint: DP)
According to Bridges (1932) the ‘bipolar’ emotional life is comprised of distress vs. pleasure.
With age, expression of emotion becomes increasingly:
differentiated.
What are the 4 age groups observed in the emergence of emotional expression:
- Birth.
- 2-3 months.
- 7 months.
- 24 months.
What 4 emotions are expressed at birth?
Hint: DDIN
- Distress
- Disgust
- Interest
- Neonatal smile
At birth, what triggers the emotion of distress?
Pain
At birth, what triggers the emotion of disgust?
Offensive substances.
At birth, what triggers the emotion of interest?
Novelty or movement.
At birth, what triggers the neonatal smile?
Appears spontaneously for no known reason.
What 3 emotions appear at 2-3 months?
Hint: JSS
- Joy
- Sadness
- Social smile
At 2-3 months, what trigger the emotion of joy?
Familiar pleasant event.
At 2-3 months, what trigger the emotion of sadness?
Loss of desired object or person.
At 2-3 months, what trigger the social smile?
Familiar caregivers face.
What 4 emotions appear at 7 months?
Hint: SAWF
- Surprise
- Anger
- Wariness
- Fear
At 7 months, what triggers the emotion of surprise?
Jack-in-the-box.
At 7 months, what triggers the emotion of anger?
Being restrained or prevented from dong something.
At 7 months, what triggers the emotion of wariness?
A strangers face.
At 7 months, what triggers the emotion of fear?
Extreme novelty, heights (visual cliff).
What emotions are observed at 24 months?
Complex emotions.
What triggers complex emotions at 24 months?
Advanced cognitive understanding of self, others, and expected standards.
Describe the procedure of Field et al. (1982) experiment on discrimination and imitation of emotion:
Used habituation and dishabituation technique to observe fixation times and facial expressions in 6 month old babies.
What is habituation?
The decrease in response to a repeatedly presented stimulus.
What is dishabituation?
The fast recovery of a response that has been previously habituated.
What is the habituation technique?
The presentation of a visual stimulus to an infant elicits looking behavior that habituates with repeated presentations of the stimulus.
What were the results of Field et al. (1982) experiment on discrimination and imitation of emotion?
Infants discriminated between facial expressions and even imitated them.
Using a caregiver’s emotional expression to guide own actions is called:
social referencing.
What experiment can be used to demonstrate social referencing?
Source et al. (1985) Visual Cliff paradigm.