Exam 2or3?: chapter 10 Flashcards
Emotional Expressions: 0-2 months
interest, distress, disgust, contentment
Emotional Expressions: 2-7 months
interest, distress, disgust, contentment,
new: anger, sadness, joy, surprise, and fear
Basic emotions
Universal emotions expressed similarly in all cultures and are present at birth or in the early months
- Joy
- Anger
- Surprise
- Sadness
- Disgust
first smile
3 weeks – linked with shifts in arousal state
social smile
smile in response to seeing familiar people
6 – 10 weeks of age
age at Laughter
3 – 4 months
age at anger
6 months
Self-conscious Emotions
depend on cognitive development and
awareness of self
* For example: empathy, pride, embarrassment, shame, guilt
* Emerge around 15–18 months
Emotion Regulation
ability to control one’s emotions
Parental Interaction in the context of emotional development
- Techniques to help infants learn to manage emotions
- Interpretation of child’s emotions
Interactive play in the context of emotional development
Development of motor skills and emotions
Social Referencing
tendency to look to caregivers’ or other adults’ emotional expressions to find clues for how to interpret ambiguous events
Emotional Display Rules
standards as to how individuals display feelings within a given social context
Stranger Wariness
Fear of unfamiliar people
Emotional Understanding
- Understanding factors that affect emotions
- Understanding of mixed or conflicting emotions
Emotion Regulation
- Become better able to manage their emotional experience and how emotions are displayed
- Influenced by advances in cognitive development, theory of mind, and language development
Daily Hassles
small stresses that quickly accumulate to influence adults’ mood and ability to cope
Signaling behaviors
behaviors aimed at bringing caregivers into contact with infants
Stages of attachment formation (Bowlby’s Ethological Perspective on Attachment)
- Indiscriminate Social Responsiveness (birth to 2 months)
- Discriminating Sociability (2 through 6–7 months)
- Attachments (7–24 months)
- Reciprocal Relationships (24–30 months and onward)
Secure Base
a foundation for an infant to return to when frightened
Separation Protest (Separation Anxiety)
reaction to separations from attachment figure characterized by fear, distress, crying, and whining
Internal Working Model
set of expectations about one’s worthiness of love, the availability of attachment figures during times of distress, and how one will be treated
Secure attachment
positive, enduring emotional bond between two people
Insecure Avoidant
Avoid caregiver