MCQ 2 Flashcards
What is emotional development?
Emotional development is the child’s ability to express, recognise, understand and interpret emotions, and respond appropriately to emotions in self & others.
What does the Feldman-Barrat (2017) explain?
It explains how the brain creates an image that makes sense via a pathway of predictions. The image is socially and cognitively constructed from what we know of the world around us.
Why is the development of secure attachment important?
Secure attachment is important because:
1. It promotes a positive relationship between a child and a caregiver.
2. It decreases risk for social and emotional problems later in childhood and adulthood.
3. It encourages healthy relationships outside the home.
4. It fosters positive, trusting relationships in middle childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
What is ACEs?
ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) are traumatic events occurring before the age of 18. It includes things such as abuse and neglect, parental mental illness, substance use, divorce, incarceration and domestic violence. The effects are invisible and destructive.
What is Social Development?
It’s the gradual gaining of skills, relationships and attitudes that enables a person to interact in society.
What can differences in social development be due to?
Attachment security, adult role models, child’s temperament, cultural influences, disabilities and opportunities for social interaction.
Why is social development important?
The ability to regulate emotional reactions depends on the ability to:
1. Interpret social contexts.
2. Understand the emotions and intentions of others.
3. Respond appropriately to the emotions of others.
4. Function effectively in society.
What is socio-emotional development?
Socio-emotional development is a specific domain of child development; it is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express and manage to regulate emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others.
Explain emotional socialisation and competence.
Emotional competence: The ability to manage emotional situations appropriately; the ability to understand other people’s intentions accurately; the ability to understand and regulate emotions; and increasing in emotional competence over time.
What is social referencing?
The process of reading emotional cues in others to help determine how to act in a new and uncertain situation.
What are display rules?
Display rules is a process which is culture specific and it represents social conventions. They guide our emotions, and tell us when and how we express them.
Relevant study 1:
Ilongot & Ifaluk - Culture’s influence on emotional development.
Ilongot: former head-hunters in the Philopenas; value anger and violence. Anger & passion seen as positive virtues and encouraged in childrearing practices.
Ifaluk: pastoralists; value cooperation, sharing and obedience. Adults react to excitement with anger - arousing metagu - fear or anxiety which inhibits aggression in child.
Relevant study 2:
Cole et al, 2006 - Socialisation of anger and shame
Tamang = Rebuke the angry child but reason with, and yield to, the child who appears ashamed; their view is that competent children are socially graceful and never angry.
Brahman = Respond to child anger with reasoning and yielding but ignore shame; Their practices are consistent with the privileges and duties of high cast status.
Emotional regulation definition:
It consists of internal and external processes involved in initiating, maintaining and modulating the occurrence, intensity and expressions of emotions.
How does the management of emotional experiences work?
It requires understanding of own and others’ emotions, this takes time to develop and can be hit and miss but by the 6-month milestone, babies start to regulate their emotions.
