Chapter 6 Flashcards
Emotions
Strong & informative cues about the infants state
Emotional expression
Communicating feelings to others through facial expressions, gestures, and vocalizations
Emotional understanding
Reading the emotional expressions of others
Primary emotions
Joy, surprise, sadness, anger, fear, shyness
Secondary emotions
Embarrassment, pride, shame, guilt, envy
How do babies express emotions
Cooing and babbling or fretting and crying
How do we measure infant temperament
Interview parents and observe
Still face paradigm
The infant desires a response from the caregiver and when the infant doesn’t get a response, they do whatever possible to get that response
Social referencing
Using others emotional expressions to interpret ambiguous events
Behaviorally inhibited child
Sit back/relax, “slow to warm up” to change
Difficult child
Hard to soothe
Easy and happy child
Go with the flow
Attachments
Specific, lasting, social relationship with others
Reciprocity
infants learn that in social interactions, partners take turns acting/reacting to others behavior
Effectance
Infants learn that their behavior can affect the behavior of others in a consistent and predictable fashion