Chapter Four Flashcards
Discrete emotion theory
A theory of emotions that states the particular emotion that are biologically programmed, along with distinct sets of bodily and facial features, and is discriminable early on in the child’s life.
Functional perspective
A theory stating the major purpose of the emotion to establish, maintain, or change the person’s relationship with the surrounding environment in order to accomplish a goal; the emotions are not viewed as discriminable early on in their life, but emerges later on as they grow older.
Primarily (basic) emotions
A set of emotions that exists at birth or early on in the child’s first year and some theorists believe that it is biologically programmed.
Social smile
A smiled that is aimed towards people and it typically appears at 6-10 weeks of the baby’s life.
Stranger anxiety
A reaction of worry and distrust that either an infant or toddler will express when they are around an unfamiliar person.
Separation anxiety
When either an infant or toddler exhibits worry or guarded reaction as he or she is being separated from their caregiver or familiar person.
Secondary (complex) emotions
Emotions that are self conscious or evaluated by the child who is two or three years of age; it also depends on their cognitive development too.
Social referencing
When a child uses their caregiver or familiar person’s emotional reaction to improve or conclude the meaning of the current situation.
Emotional self regulation
A process that the person uses to adjust their emotions to the proper level of intensity in order to achieve a goal.
Emotional display rules
Rules that are culturally defined in which emotion that the person is allowed or not to expression under the given circumstances.
Emotion
Physiological, behavioral, and psychological events that represents the internal states.
Temperament
A characteristic modes of emotional and behavioral response towards the person’s events; it includes aspects such as activity level, bad temper, fearful grief, and positive emotional impact.
Behavioral inhibition
A child’s fearful reaction towards an unfamiliar place, object, or person.
Goodness-of-fit-model
When a parent adjusts their child-rearing application based on their child’s temperament.
Emotional script
The complex schemes that enables a child to identify which emotional response is likely to accompany the event or situation.
