PART 6. PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE FIRST YEARS Flashcards
A relatively consistent mix of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which makes one unique.
Personality
BASIC ELEMENTS OF PERSONALITY
Emotions
Temperament
Early Social Relationships
process wherein social relationships play a role in personality development
psychosocial development
subjective reactions to experience that are associated with physiological and behavioral changes
Emotions
in infants, these are due to subcortical nervous system activity
smiling and laughing
realization that one is separate and different from the world
self-awareness
4 PATTERNS OF CRY (infants)
hunger cry
angry cry
pain cry
frustration cry
most powerful way of babies to communicate their needs
crying
feelings that depends on self-awareness and knowledge of socially accepted standards of behavior
self-evaluative emotions
feelings which depends on self-awareness (ex: empathy)
self-conscious emotions
smile-linked vocalization
lauhing
It is smiling that is described by infants gazing at their parents and smiling at them.
Social smiling
infants smile at an object then gazes at an adult while still smiling
Anticipatory smiling
it is a mild form of shame that is developed during 2 1/2 to 3 years
evaluative embarrasment
activity intended to help another person with no expectation of reward
altruistic behavior
neurons that fire when one does or observes something another person is doing
mirror neurons
ability to put oneself in another person’s place and feel what they feel
empathy
ability to understand that others have mental states and to be able to gauge their feelings and actions
social cognition
style of approaching and reacting to situations
temperament
3 Main Types of Temperament (in kids)
easy children
difficult children
slow-to-warm-up children
a child that is irritable and harder to please (10%)
difficult children
a child that is generally happy, rhythmic in biological functioning, and accepting of new experiences (40%)
easy children
a kid that is mild but slow to adapt to new situations (15%)
slow-to-warm-up children
appropriateness of environmental demands and constraints to a child’s temperament; key to healthy adjustments
goodness of fit
has to do with a child’s boldness or cautiousness in approaching unfamiliar objects or events
behavioral inhibition
born with unusually excitable amygdala and is high in behavioral inhibition
inhibited
relaxed when presented with a new stimulus and is low in behavioral inhibition
uninhibited
theory which proposes that infants and parents are biologically predisposed to become attached to each other
Ethological Theory
significance of being male or female
gender
the gender that is less reactive to stress
girls