Chapter 10 Emotional Development and Attachment Flashcards
The body’s physiological reaction to a situation, your cognitive interpretation of the situation, communication to another person and your own actions
Emotion
An automatic and unlearned set of emotions that arise early in development and have a biological basis
Basic emotion
Culturally determined norms for when, how, and to whom emotion should, or should not, be shown
Emotional display rules
All the association and interpretations that an individual connects to a certain emotion
Emotion Schemas
using the reaction of others to determine how to react in ambiguous situations
Social referencing
Sharing the feelings of other people
Empathy
Concern for others welfare that often leads to helping or comforting me
Sympathy
Emotions that depend on awareness of oneself,such a pride, quilt, and shame
Self- conscious emotions
Feelings children have when they think about the negative aspects of something they have done, particularly moral failures
Guilt
A feeling that occurs as a result of personal failure or when children attribute their bad behavior to an aspect of themselves that they believe they cannot change
Shame
The general emotional style an individual displays in responding to events
Temperament
A child’s general responsiveness marked by positive mood, easy adaption, to change, and regularity and predictability in patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination
Easy temperament
A child’s general responsiveness marked by more negative mood, intense responses,slow adaption to change, and irregular patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination
Difficult temperament
A general responsiveness marked by a slow adaption to new experience and moderate irregularity in eating, sleeping, and elimination
Slow-to-warm temperament
How well a child’s temperamental characteristics match wit the demands of the child’s environment
Goodness of fit
A parental style that teaches children how to understand their emotions and deal with them
Emotional coaching
A parental style that teaches children to ignore their feelings
Emotion dismissing
The ability to consciously control one’s behavior
Effortful control
The ability to wait until later to get something desirable
Delay of gratification
The ability to understand and control one’s emotions, to understand the emotions of others, and to use this understanding in human interactions
Emotional intelligence
Behaviors, such as aggressive or destructive behavior, in which the child or adolescent “acts out” on the environment
Externalizing (or other directed) behaviors
Behaviors in which a child’s emotion are turned inward and become hurtful to themselves
Internalizing (or self-directed) behaviors
A vague fear of events that may or may not occur
Anxiety
A level of anxiety that is severe, last a long time, and interferes with normal functioning
Anxiety disorder