Developmental Psych Chapter 10 Flashcards

1
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What theory are these arguments for?
Emotions are discrete from one another.
Each emotion is accompanied by a specific and distinctive set of physiological and facial reactions.

A

Discrete Emotions Theory

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Who has the three basic affect systems of Joy/Pleasure,Anger/frustration, and Wariness/fear.

A

Sroufe

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What are not discrete from one another?

They vary based on the social environment.

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Emotions

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4
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What do emotions promote?

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Actions towards achieving a goal.

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5
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What do infants do to show positive emotions?

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Smile: The first clear sign of happiness.

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6
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What is directed towards people as early as 6 to 7 weeks of age that is related to Positive emotions?

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Social Smiles

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7
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What is a negative Emotion shown in infants?

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Fear

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What is the feeling of distress that young children experience when they experience actual or anticipated separation from individuals to whom they are attached?

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Separation Anxiety

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9
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What kind of children have higher separation anxiety compared to European American Children?

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Chinese Children

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10
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Do boys or girls decrease faster in anger after 1 and a half?

A

Girls!

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What are feelings that relate to consciousness of others’ reactions to us?

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Self-Conscious Emotions

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What are these emotions examples of?

Embarrassment, pride, guilt, and shame?

A

Self-Conscious Emotions

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13
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When do children start to show embarrassment?

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About 15-24 months of age

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14
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What self-conscious emotion is associated with empathy for others?
Also involves feelings of regret and the desire to make up for the mistake.

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Guilt

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15
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What emotion do children feel when told, “You did a bad thing”

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Guilt

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16
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What self-conscious Emotion is not related to concern about others, children feel exposed and feel hiding?

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Shame

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17
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What self-Conscious emotion do children feel when told, “No other 3 year olds act like you!”

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Shame

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18
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How do emotions change for children during preschool and early school years?

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Emotions overall become less intense and less negative.

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19
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What do children use during early school years for normal emotional development?

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Contextual Cues

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20
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What are the normal emotional development in children in early to middle childhood?

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Important sources of happiness and pride: peer acceptance and government achievement.

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21
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What was the normal emotional development in childhood in school-age children?

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They were better understanding of reality.

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What is an example of how normal emotional development in school-age children?

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They are no longer afraid of imaginary creatures.

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23
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Do negative emotions increase or decrease in adolescence?

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Increase,

Positive emotions decrease

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24
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What % of U.S. youth experience depressive symptoms?

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10%

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25
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What 2 Cognitive Factors are related to depression?

A

Maladaptive Belief Systems

Feeling of Powerlessness

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26
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What are the 2 social factors related to depression?

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Family: Low levels of support, chronic stress.
Peers: Lack of social skills, rejection and victimization by peers.

27
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What does Depression usually results from?

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A combination of personal vulnerability and stressful factors.

28
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Are boys or girls in the U.S. more clinically depressed in adolescent years?

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Girls

29
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Why is depression more common in girls?

A

Stressors for girls: Concerns about body image, early puberty, worries about peer acceptance.

30
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What is the dwelling on one’s own negative feelings and their causes and consequences? Without trying to remedy the situation?

A

Ruination

31
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What is the extensive discussion and self-disclosure of one’s emotional problems with another person.

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Co-Rumination

32
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Who established Emotional Intelligence?

A

Mischel

33
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What experiment did Mischel do in 1988?

A

Marshmallow Experiment

34
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What was Mischel’s Marshmallow Experiment?

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Tested preschoolers’ abilities to delay gratification. These abilities predict their social, emotional, and academic competence many years later.

35
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What are the abilities that are important to social functioning. Regulation of emotion is one of the abilities.

A

Emotional Intelligence

36
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What is the process of initiating, inhibiting, or modulating emotion, physiological reactions, cognitions and behaviors?

A

Emotional Regulation

37
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What happens through Emotional Regulation in a child’s first month of life?

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Parents help infants’ emotion regulation by controlling their exposure to stimulating events.

38
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What happens through emotional Regulation in a child’s life by the first 6 months?

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Infants can reduce their distress by averting their gaze and self-soothing behaviors.

39
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What happens through Emotional Regulation in a chi’d between ages of 1 and 2?

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Infants increasingly look at non-distressing objects or positive people to distract them.

40
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How do Younger children Regulate their emotions?

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Distracting themselves with play

41
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How do older children regulate their emotions?

A

Use cognitive strategies: Positive reframing and cognitive Distraction.

42
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What is the ability to achieve personal goals in social interactions while maintaining positive relationships with others?

A

Social Competence

43
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What are children like with strong emotion regulation?

A

Are liked by peers and adults
Well adjusted
Do better in school

44
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What is biologically based individual differences in emotional, motor, and attentional reactivity and self regulation?
Also is consistent across situations. Relatively stability over time.

A

Temperament

45
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Who did the Temperament study in 1977?

A

Chess & Thomas

46
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What were the 3 categories that Chess & Thomas came up with for the temperament study?

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Easy babies, Difficult Babies, Slow-to-warm-up babies.

47
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What are the easy babies like?

A

40%Adjust easily to novel experiences, cheerful.

48
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What are the difficult babies like?

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10% React with intense negative emotions to new stimuli, irregular bodily functions.

49
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What are slow-to-warm-up babies like?

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15% Difficult at first but become easier over time.

50
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What were Rothbart & Bates Dimensions of Temperament in the 1988’s?

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Fearful distress/inhibition, irritable distress, Attentional span, activity level, positive Affect, Rhythmicity.

51
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What is the Distress and Withdrawal shown in novel situations in Rothbart & Bates Dimensions of Temperament?

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Fearful distress/Inhibition

52
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What is the Fussiness, anger, and frustration in Rothbar & Bates Dimensions of Temperament?

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Irritable Distress

53
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What is the duration of orienting toward events or objets in Rothbart & Bates Dimensions of Temperament?

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Attentional Span

54
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What is how much an infant moves in Rothbart & Bates Dimensions of Temperament?

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Activity Level

55
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What is Smiling, approach to people in Rothbart & Bates Dimensiosn of Temperament?

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Positive Affect

56
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What is the Regularity and predictability of cycles (ex. Sleeping and eating) in Rothbart & Bates Dimensions of Temperament?

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Rhythmicity

57
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What can temperament be influenced by?

A

The environment

58
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Does Stability increase or decrease with age?

A

Increase

59
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What is the high fearfulness and restrained behavior in novel situations?

A

Behavioral Inhibition in Infancy

60
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What are examples of behavioral inhibition at older ages?

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Anxiety, Depression, and social withdrawal.

61
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Who has more unemployment, illegal behaviors, mental and physical health problems as adults?

A

Negative and Unregulated Children

62
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What is the children’s adjustment that depends on how their temperament fits with their social environment?

A

Goodness of fit

63
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what is this example? Impulsive and unregulated children x hostile parenting bringing more problems.

A

Goodness of Fit