Chapter 10 Flashcards
Functionalist approach to emotion
Emphasizing the broad function of emotions is to energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals
Emotion
Is a rapid appraisal of the personal significance to the situation
Basic emotions
Happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, disgust- are universal in humans and other primates and have long evolutionary history of promoting survival
Social smile
Between 6-10 weeks, the parents communication evokes a broad grin
Stranger anxiety
The most frequent expression of fear is to unfamiliar adults
Self-conscious emotions
Because each involves injury to or enhancement of our sense of self
Emotional-self regulation
Refers to the strategies we use to adjust our emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity so we can accomplish our goals
Problem-centered coping
They appraise the situation as changeable, identify the difficulty, and decide what to do about it.
Emotion centered coping
Which is internal private and aimed at controlling distress when little can be done about and outcome
Emotional display rules
These specify when, where, and how it is appropriate to express emotions
Social referencing
Relying on another’s persons emotional reaction to appraise an uncertain situation
Empathy
Involves a complex interaction of cognition and affect: the ability to detect different emotions, to take another’s emotional perspective
Temperament
Early appearing, stable individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation.
Effortful control
The capacity to voluntarily suppress a dominant response in order to plan and execute a more adaptive response
Inhibited children
Who react negatively to and withdraw from novel stimuli
Uninhibited children
Who display pic Sistine emotion to and approach novel stimuli
Attachment
Is the strong, affectionate tie we have with special people in our lives that leads us to experience pleasure and joy when we interact with them and to be comforted by their nearness in times of stress
Ethnological theory of attachement
Which recognizes the infant’s emotional tie to the caregiver as an evolved response that promotes survival, is the most widely accepted view
Internal working model
Set of expectations about the availability of attachment figures
Sensitive caregiving
Responding promptly, consistently, and appropriately to infants and holding them tenderly and carefully
Interactional synchrony
Seperates the experiences of secure from insecure babies.
