Chapter 10 - Emotional Development Flashcards
What elements do basic emotions experienced by people worldwide consist of?
1) Subjected feeling
2) Physiological change
3) Overt behaviour
What are the three emotions from the vignette?
Joy, anger, and surprise
What is thought to underlie emotional development?
Cognitive effort
Emotional development: 0-2 months
- Smiles and distress responses generated by a pattern of tension and release of physical arousal (internally- or externally-generated)
Emotional development: 2-6 months
- Smiles and distress responses generated by a pattern of tension and release produced by a low-level cognitive processing
- Imitation and expression of basic emotions
- Social smiling
Emotional development: 7-12 months
- Goal-related expression of emotion
- Regular displays of discrete emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, etc.)
What is temperament?
Inborn individual differences in quality and intensity of emotional reaction that forms the foundations of personality
What makes up an infant’s temperament?
Behavioural styles which are fairly stable across situations and are biologically based
What are the three patterns of temperament?
1) The “easy child”
2) The “difficult child”
3) The “slow-to-warm-up child”
What are some characteristics for the “easy child?”
- Happy
- Adjust well to change
- Approach new events positively
- Regular routine of eating and sleeping
- Most common
What are some characteristics for the “difficult child?”
- Irritable
- Adjusts slowly to change
- Approach new events negatively
- Irregular routine of eating and sleeping
- Least common
What are some characteristics for “slow-to-warm-up child?”
- Starts off as unresponsive or responds with a low-key reaction to new things
- Tends to be negative in mood
- Takes a little time to warm up to new things
Emotion perception and understanding: weeks old
Limitation of emotion expression
Emotion perception and understanding: 2-3 months
Can pay attention to vocal and facial cues
Emotion perception and understanding: 5-7 months
Can read non-verbal emotion cues of any person
