Final Exam Flashcards
What is emotion?
They can be a way and a reaction to expressed our feelings
What is the Theory that Charles Darwin has search?
Discrete Emotions Theory
What is explained by the discrete emotions theory?
emotions are innate (born with)
discrete emotions expressed even before understanding
What is Functionalist perspective on emotion?
functional use of emotion
goal directed
envrionmental influences
What are the Big six?
1- Happiness
2- Fear
3- Anger
4- Sadness
5- Disgust
6- Surprise
What are the stages of happiness?
few days old: smile when touched
first month: Smiling in sleep
3-8 weeks : smile to attention + grabbing stimuli
Early Childhood: Humour
What are the stages of Fear?
7 months: stranger anxiety
8-15 months: sepration anxiety
Early childhood: imaginary fear
School-aged: anxieties
What are the stages of Anger?
Infancy: Angry-sad
1 year: true anger
18-24 months: react with anger
Preschool; No consideration of others intentions
School-aged: consideration of intention
Adolescence: family tensions
What are the stages of Sadness?
Infancy: sadness and lack of control + sadness less expressed through development
What is Disgust?
Can be learned from environement
Infancy: mostly food-based
What is Surprise?
Startle reflex
When the world surprises us
What is explained as societal influences and requires a sense of self- 2 years?
Self-Conscious Emotions
What are the 6 emotions of the self-conscious emotions?
Guilt
Shame
Embarassment
Jealousy
Empathy
pride
What is Guilt?
Empathy based – regret and remorse (2-3years)
What is Shame?
focsue on self – personal failure + shame is not universal
What is explained as the individuals differences in emotion, activity level and attention
it is present since birth and is biologically based?
Temperament
What’s the difference between temperament and Personality?
temperament: the individual differences in emotion, activity level and attention
Personality:
who the person is / internal sense of self
What are the characteristics that make us different from one another and last over time and situations?
Individuals Differences
What is the two biological Differences?
Hormones
Brain structure
what is the hormone that is linked to happiness and well-being?
Serotonin
What is the hormone that is linked to pleasure?
Dopamine
What is the hormone that is linked to aggression?
Testosterone
What is the hormone associated with social interest and is most present in childhood?
Oxytocin
Which part of the brain structure is involved with emotional regulation?
Limbic System
What is explained by individuals that are more easily “triggered by emotions?
reactivity
what are the 3 methods of measruing temperament?
Parent reports
Physiological Measures
Observational data
what are the 3 methods of measruing temperament?
Parent reports
Physiological Measures
Observational data
What is the Rothbart’s Temperament?
Extraversion/Surgency
Negative Affect
Effortful Control
Affiliativeness
How does temperament change?
influence by the environment?
- Caregivers
- Siblings
- Peers
- Culture
Influence by experience
- learning new skills
- encountering a variety of scenarios
What is the Goodness of Fit?
The goodness of fit refers to how well the child’s temperament matches the parent’s temperament or even that of his teacher. Adults have specific behavioural styles or temperaments just like children.
Seperates into two categories
1- Caregivers
2- Environement
What is explained by the environmental interactions is not “one size fits all”
and that some children are more easily stressed vs the children that show more resilience.
Differential Susceptibility
What is Behavioural Inhibition?
it appears early in life and demonstrates stability across development
How does Infants and toddlerhood is affected by behavioural inhibition?
negative reactions to novelty
withdrawal from novel/unfamiliar social and nonsocial situations
How do older children is affected by behavioural inhibition?
Hyper-vigilance
fearfulness
withdrawal
What are the social difficulties in the Psychosocial Outcomes of BI?
- Poor social skills
- low quality peer relationships
- perceived social incompetence
What are the academic difficulties in the Psychosocial Outcomes of BI
- lower academic achievement
- poorer school readiness
What is the psychopathology in the Psychosocial Outcomes of BI?
- 4-7 times as likely to develop a social anxiety disorder
- 50% of children with BI will develop an anxiety disorder
At about 3 month, what infant are starting to distinguish?
happiness, surprise, anger
At about 7 months, infants are starting to distinguish which emotion?
fear, sadness, interest
at 12 months, Infants are starting to distinguish which emotion?
social referencing
At 3 years old, Infants are starting to ..
label emotions
Understanding fake emotions
3 years old: failure to hide emotions
5 years old: understand fake emotions
4-6 years old: understand deception by others
What is defined by the expert that controls over one’s emotional state?
Emotion regulation
What is defined by when the infant is experiencing self-comfort behaviours (thumb sucking, hair twirling) and self-distraction: avoid upsetting stimulus?
Behavioural Regulation