week 5 - emotional development Flashcards
According to Izard (2010), what structers and systems create emotion?
- processes
- response systems
- feelings
- expressive behaviour
- antecedent cognitive appraisal
- cognitive interpretation of a feeling state
What is emotional development?
- expressing own emotions
- regulating own emotions
- recognising, labeling & understanding the emotions of others
What evidence suggests babies can express emotions from birth?
- photographs of infant emotions can be correctly categorised by adults (Izard et al., 1980)
- fecial musclature is developed enough to display a full range of emotions
- facial actions of fetuses in the 3rd trimester are similar to those seen in children and adults (Hata et al., 2013)
- congenitally blind people involuntarily produce emotion expressions (Cole et al., 1989)
What emotions can parents identify on their childs face?
- a contented baby is happy and smiling
- a discontented baby has pursed lips and is crying
- parents can identify particularly primary emotions (Campos et al., 1983)
What did Steiner et al. (2001) discover about neonates’ facial expressions related to taste?
found that neonates showed a positive facial expression in response to sucrose (sweet), and a negative facial affect in response to quinine (bitter)
- videotaped facial expressions of 23 neonates in the first hour of birth as they drank sucrose & Quinine
- hedonic response to sucrose - positive facial affect
- aversive response to quinine - negative facial affect
What are the stages of attachment and stranger distress according to Bowlyby’s (1958, 1969) 5 stages
- 0-2 months - indiscriminative social responsiveness. inbuilt emotional signals (smiling, crying) designed to draw mother near
- 2-7 months - beginnings of attachment. preferential orientation to discriminated other. more likely to smile at or be comforted by primary caregiver, however the stranger is still accepted
- 7 months-2 years - locomotion; actively seeks proximity to attachment figure(s). separation protest due to fear of strangers
- 2-5 years - goal corrected partnership. the child begins to take account of others needs, and can wait while the caregiver is absent (with explanation)
- school age onwards - proximity seeking reduces. relationship based on IWM
What is self-awareness (morin, 2011)?
The capacity to become the object of ones own attention
What are secondary emotions, and what is required for their development?
secondary emotions (e.g. pride, shame, guilt) rely on the development of self-awareness
When does self-awareness develop in infants?
- 9-12 month olds show preference for pictures of themselves over other babies
- reliable self-recognition typically emerges from 18-24 months. the child begins to develop ‘awareness of self’
How do babies show evidence of self-recognition?
- during their first few years, babies smile and vocalise at their mirror reflections
- is a babies interest in mirrors simply because they see an interesting social stimulus or do babies realise that they are seeing themselves
- to be truly considered self-recognition, a subject must understand:
- that the perceptual experience is not to be taken at face value
- that the source of the visual impression of another person is oneself
- that the appearance of another person provides info about oneself
- that one is looking at an image of oneself
What is the “Rouge Test” (Gallup, 1970) and what does it test?
- a coloured mark is placed on the infant in a place they cannot usually see (i.e. forehead)
- baby is then placed in front of a mirror
- researchers observe whether the baby attempts to touch the mark
- used to test self-recognition
How do self-conscious emotions develop and what are some examples?
self-conscious emotions require integration of more complex knowledge structures, self-awareness, personal responsibility etc
these include:
- guilt
- shame
- jealousy
- empathy
- embarrassment
According to Lewis (2016), how does guilt differ from shame?
Guilt involves feeling empathy for others, remorse, regret, and a desire to undo the consequences of behaviour. Shame is related to feelings of self-worth, where one focuses on oneself and often feels exposed
How did Barrett et al. (1993) distinguish shame and guilt in 2-year-olds?
- a doll was rigged so that one leg would fall off while the experimenter was out of the room
- some toddlers displayed shame - avoiding adult on return, delaying telling them about the mis-hap
- others displayed guilt - repairing doll quickly and told adult quickly, not avoiding them
According to Murris & Meesters (2013), what are the two types of pride?
- authentic pride (“i did that well”)
- hubristic pride (“I did that well”)
What did Lewis (1992) find about pride and shame in relation to task difficulty in 3 year olds?
by 3 years old, children expressed pride more often on completion of a difficult task and expressed shame more often if they failed an easy task
What did Haviland & Lelwica (1987) observe about mother-baby interactions at 10 weeks old?
- asked mothers to adopt a happy or sad face and tone of voice
- used the maximally discriminative facial movement coding system to code mothers’ and infants’ facial expressions
they observed that babies often mirrored their mothers’ facial expressions; if the mother was happy, so was the baby, and if the mother was angry, so was the baby
What did Montague & Walker-Andrews (2001) discover in their peekaboo experiment with 4-month-old infants, and how did they find this?
They found that infants paid more visual attention in emotion-change conditions, also more for anger/fear than sadness. they also showed increased interest in emotion change conditions compared to the happy condition
4 peekaboo trials which varied in the emotion change in the fourth trial
- change to anger
- change to fear
- change to sadness
- no change - stayed happy/suprise
examined the emotional responses of 40 four-month-old infants
What is social referencing (Feinman, 1982)
the process where an individual uses their perception of another person’s interpretation of a situation to form their own understanding of that situation
- an infant will often watch their mother/fathers emotion expression before reacting to a social situation
- infant more likely to do this when faced with ambiguous situations
What did Repacholi (2009) discover about infants’ responses to a model’s emotional reaction to a task?
infants in the angry condition did not reproduce the action
examined children’s understanding of the link between emotions and actios using a social-referencing task.
- observed a model completing a simple task (pulling apart a toy that consisted of two previously combined tubes) and reacting to the action
- 15 and 18 month old infants were allocated to 1 of 4 conditions, where the models reaction to the action embodied one of four reactions:
- anger
- happy
- neutral
- control (where they did not pull apart the toy)
- infants observed the model interacting with the object, complete the action and then demonstrate the emotion
- results found no difference between the conditions in terms of the amount of time infants spent with the object
What did Montirosso et al. (2010) discover about children’s ability to label emotions from 4-18 years old?
they discovered that recognition ability (except for disgust) developed with age, and accuracy increased with the intensity of emotional expression. girls were more accurate than boys, particularly with anger and disgust
What researchers investigated the impact of face masks and emotion recognition?
- Carbon, 2020
- Kastendieck et al., 2023
What were the results of Bourke et al’s. (2023) study on emotion recognition and facemasks?
- facemasks improved the accuracy of recognising anger
- facemasks impaired the recognition of happiness and sadness
- facemasks had no impact on language processing
What were the results of Chester et al’s. (2021) study on emotion recognition and face masks?
- masking impacted happiness and sadness recognition but not anger
- masking effect was stronger for children whose families engaged in a greater degree of social distancing during the pandemic