Emotional Development Flashcards
Social Referencing
Seeking information from a trusted person in uncertainty - 8 - 10 months.
Self-Conscious Emotions
Guilt, shame, embarrassment, envy, pride.
Influences our sense of self as well as references to the beliefs or others.
Develops around 18 - 24 months.
Very culturally bound.
Emotional Self-Regulation
Strategies that we use to control our emotions to an appropriate intensity to control our emotions.
Infants do not have a lot of internal control of this.
Temperament
Individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation.
Reactivity
Quickness and intensity of emotional arousal, attention, and motor activity.
Self-Regulation
Strategies to modify reactivity.
Thomas & Chess’ Model
Easy / Difficult / Slow-To-Warm-Ip Diagram.
Easy Model
40% - quickly establishes routines, cheerful, adapts well to new experiences.
Difficult Model
10% - irregular in routines, slow with new experiences, reacts negatively and intensely.
Slow-To-Warm-Up Model
15% - inactive, mild reactions, negative mood, and adjusts slowly to new experiences.
Attachment:
Secure
May be distressed when parent leaves, but when they return they seek contact and are able to be soothed (60% of middle class, lower for low SES).
Attachment:
Avoidant
Unresponsive when parent is present, not distressed when they leave (15%).
Attachment:
Resistant
Often fail to explore, distressed when parent leaves, resistant upon return, unable to be soothed (10%).
Attachment:
Disorganized/Disoriented
Confused, contradictory behaviors when parent returns (15%).
Self-Awareness
This grows with development.
By age 2, children begin to demonstrate an awareness of themselves as a unique being.
