Emotions (Unit 4) Flashcards
What are emotions?
- the mind and body’s integrated response to a stimulant of some kind
- Feeling that occurs when a person is in a state or interaction that is important to them (especially for their well being)
- Can be extreme (rage, happy, sad) or subtle (uneasy)
What is the 2 factor theory?
- Relationship between your behaviour, feelings and, understanding of your feelings
- if you think anger is shown in one way you will show anger that way
What is regulation?
- Ability to control your emotions
- Manage emotional responses to adapt to circumstances and reach a goal
- Parents play a big role
What role do parents have on regulation?
Emotional Coaching: monitor emotions, view negative emotions as a teaching opportunity, assist them in labelling and providing tips on how to deal with emotions
- Acknowledging someone is feeling an emotion and help them with it
Emotion Dismissing: deny, ignore or change negative emotions
- Ignoring the emotion, trying to ignore the problem/change the subject
What is emotional intelligence and competence?
Emotional Intelligence: ability to understand your emotions (broader term)
Emotional competence: refers to the ability of an individual to understand, manage, and express their own emotions effectively in their real world experiences. It’s understanding the practical implications of someone’s emotions and how it affects their surroundings.
- Developing skills in social context
- These skills developed through lifespan
What occurs in infancy:
Michael lewis distinguishes between 2 types of emotions:
- Primary emotions: emotions that are present in humans and some animals that appear within the first 6 months (sadness, surprise, fear,joy)
- Self-conscious emotions: requires self awareness that involves a sense of “me” (jealousy, empathy, embarrassment, pride, shame, guilt)
a) These emotions develop after 18 months where a sense of self is achieved
What is emotional express (during infancy)?
Crying (Most important for communication)
- Basic smile (cry→silent→cry)
- Angry cry (crying, shouting)
- Pain (sudden long cry followed by breath holding
Smiling
- Reflexive smile → doesn’t occur in response to something (occurs usually in sleep)
- Social smile → occurs in response to an external stimuli (first 4-6 weeks from caregivers voice)
Fear
- One of the earliest emotions
- Strong anxiety → 6-9 months of age where infants are weary of strangers
- Separation anxiety → fear from being separated from caregiver so they protest (Cry when they leave) → 7-15 months
What occurs in childhood?
- Begin to understand emotions
- Between 2-4 children increase number of terms they use to describe emotions
- By 4-5 they are able to reflect emotions and understand that something can cause different people to feel different emotions
What occurs in mid-late childhood?
- Improve emotional understanding
- Use self regulation to redirect feelings
Ex. going to read in a corner - Take in the bigger picture when experiencing emotional reaction
- Develop the ability for empathy
What occurs in adolescence?
- Adolescence can be a very tough time emotionally
- Individuals in early adolescents report being unhappy
- Moodiness is normal
Caused by:
- Puberty
- Hormones → affect interaction, lose friends, understanding of surroundings (meeting more people), how people communicate with people → finding new friends, studying differently (teachers), etc
- Transition (elementary to high school)
- Social media
- Bullying
- Learning how to control your emotions → prefrontal cortex
What occurs in adulthood?
- Adults are motivated by a desire to create a lifestyle that is satisfying
- Motivation influences their decision about a life partner, a career, where they want to live and who they want to be around (focus on emotionally meaningful goals)
- Their emotional regulation is impacted if they are not able to make the right decision in these areas of their life
- Their is however, a stranger control over emotions (less highs and lows - bit more balance)
What are the emotional development theories?
- Developed by laura carstensen - pertains especially to older adults
- Suggest that older adults become selective about their activities and social relationships in order to maintain social and emotional well-being
- Older people place a high value on emotional satisfaction so, they spend more time with people who they are comfortable with, happy around and have strong relationships with
- This selective narrowing of social interaction leaves the older adult with more positive emotional experiences and minimize risks as they become older
