Chapter 7 Emotional Development Flashcards
Emotional Development
Emotions:
Play roles in organizing key developmental attainments over the first two years–Formation of first social relationships–Exploration of the environment–Discovery of the self.
Energize development
Become more varied and complex with age
Vocalizations, body movements, and facial expressions are the best clues to infants’ emotions–Similar across cultures.
Emotional expressions vary with individual’s developing: capacities, goals, context
First Appearance of Basic Emotions
Happiness
Anger
Sadness
Fear
Happiness
Smile:
From birth
Happiness
Social smile:
6-10 weeks
Happiness
Laughter:
3-4 months
General distress
Anger:
4-6 months
Fear
First fear:
6-12 months
Understanding emotions of others
Emotional contagion:
Early infancy
Understanding emotions of others
Recognition of others’ facial expressions:
4-5 months
Understanding emotions of others
Social referencing:
Actively seeking emotional information from a trusted person in an uncertain situation. (Adults voice and facial expression)
Emotional Contagion
The observed behavior of one individual tends to lead to the reflexive production of the same behavior by others
Self-conscious Emotions
Second-higher-order feelings involve injury to or enhancement of our sense of self. these emotions can be different depending on where you live and the culture you’re embedded.
Self-conscious Emotions
Guilt
Shame
Embarrassment
Envy
Pride
Appear in the middle of second year
Require adult instruction in when to feel the emotion
Strategies we use to adjust our emotional state so we can accomplish our goals.
Young infants depend on caregivers to soothe them.
Self-regulation advances over the first year.
In the second year, growth in representation and language leads to new ways of regulating emotions.
Caregivers’ contributions to child’s self-regulation style
Highly involved in caregiving, play, and responsiveness = children have greater ability to self-sooth
Parents who wait to intervene, are impatient or angry = children less likely to self regulate/self sooth
Gender differences
Boys have a harder time regulating negative emotions
Cultural definitions of socially appropriate behavior
how could you help kids regulate their moods?
Do you even know what you are feeling?
How would knowing help you navigate it better?
Infants depend on interventions of caregivers- held, rocked gently stroked or talked to softly
Toddlers observe and mimic (Social Learning Theory)
As toddlers can move around more and vocalize more clearly their regulation can improve.
