W4 Emotion, Attachment and Social Cognition Flashcards
What is emotion?
Emotions are short-lived psychological physiological phenomena… that represent efficient modes of adaptation to changing environmental demands
Why are useful?
Modes of adaptation to changing environmental demands
What are the 6 basic emotions?
Anger Disgust Fear Happiness Sadness Surprise
How does emotion develop between birth and 6 months?
How does emotion develop between 1 year and 2.5 years?
How does emotion develop between 2.5-3 years?
What aspects of emotional development is related to “Nature”?
The cognitive maturation and temperment at birth. Some babies are chill, some are not.
How do babies get experience with emotions?
Babies gain experience with emotions through face-to-face interactions.
- Parents model emotions
- Baby gets experience feeling, expressing, and eliciting emotions
What is Social referencing, and when does it start?
It’s the ability to monitor reactions in others to help define situation, regulate behavior and emotions.
What is Parental socialisation?
Modeling, imitation, reinforcement.
Talk to their children about emotions in daily life.
What are emotional Display rules?
Cultural rules specifying what emotions should and should not be expressed under what circumstances
What is Emotion Regulation?
Processes involved in initiating, maintaining, and altering emotional responses.
- Down-regulating = limiting
- Up-regulating = amping-up
What are the 2 ways parents can deal with emotions?
Emotion coaching or Emotion dismissing
What is emotional coaching?
- Being aware of even low intensity emotions
- Opportunities for closeness and teaching
- Accepting and empathising
- Helping to understand and express
- Helping to deal with situation/trigger
What is Emotion dismissing?
- Ignoring, denying, criticizing or punishing negative emotions
- Trying to convert them to positive as quickly as possible
- Not dealing with emotions
