Chapter 6 Flashcards
emotional development and attachment
3 areas of children’s emotional development:
Recognize emotional expression.
Understanding and empathizing with emotions.
Regulating own emotion
The basic emotions (Ekman)
Fear, anger, sadness, surprise, joy, disgust
complex emotions
jealousy etc. ones that are not the basic emotions.
Darwin and emotions
emotions are innate.
- nature
- passive
social referencing
infants look at their caregiver to decide how to act.
visual cliff
experiment where there is a fake cliff and infants used social referencing to decide if they should proceed.
emotional ambiguity
the understanding that persons feelings may not be clear-cut or match your own emotional response.
children and positive emotions in play
these children showed a better emotional understanding, suggesting that it may be related to the ability to form harmonious relationships.
mind-mindedness
caregivers who are able to read their infants signals appropriately.
Feldman Barret
(Constructivist), when no options are given less agreement on perceived emotion.
- active
- nurture
ethology
emphasizes evolutionary origins of behavior that is important for survival.
Tinbergens 4 questions:
Causation - How does the behavior occur in the individual?
Development - How does the behavior arise in the individual?
Function - Why is the behavior adaptive for the species?
Evolution - How does this behavior arise in the species?
The 4 attachment styles
Secure,
anxious,
avoidant,
disorganized
Secure attachment style
Healthy communication and can self-regulate
Anxious attachment style
Clinginess, fear of abandonment, need for reassurance
