Week 9 - Emotions

Question 1

social referencing

Answer 1

using other peoples facial/vocal cues to inform how to deal with a situation

Question 2

emotional intelligence

Answer 2

cognitively process emotions and use that info to guide their emotions and behaviors

Question 3

functionalist approach to emotions

Answer 3

focused on the adaptive functions of emotions - motivate us to attend to environmental stimuli and are goal driven

Question 4

circumplex model of emotions

Answer 4

emotions are continuous - two dimensions: valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (intense/mild)

Question 5

components of emotion

Answer 5

Neural response
Subjective feeling
Physiological response
Desire for action
emotional expression

Question 6

strategies of emotional regulation

Answer 6

co-regulation with parents
self comforting behaviors- body, relax
self distraction behaviors- increase as older - better attention/inhibition
rumination- cognitive strategy, focus on emotion
expressive engagement or repression, behavioral strategy
reappraisal- change way of thinking, congnitive strategy

Question 7

measurements of temperament

Answer 7

Hisotrical:
Easy
Difficult
Slow to warm up

done through interviews with parents

Modern:
parent reports
physiological measures