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Week Eleven - Emotional & Moral Development Flashcards

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1
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What is the essential part of social competence?

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emotion

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What is affect?

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Generic label for both mood and emotion

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What is an emotion?

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Experienced as a feeling that motivates, organises and guides perceptions, thought and action

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What is a mood?

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A low-intensity, diffuse and relative enduring affective state, often no salient cause

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What is emotional development?

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The way emotions change or remain stable across the lifespan

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What are the 4 main distinctions between the emotions of adults and children?

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Children = fewer displayed emotions and emotions in general

Children = experience same emotion but manifested in different ways

Children psychological patterns differ to adults

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What are the three elements of emotional development?

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  1. emotional expression
  2. regulation of emotional experience
  3. emotional understanding/recognition
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emotional expression (define)

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learning when, where, and how to display emotions

includes:

  • latency
  • onset
  • apex
  • offset
  • intensity

infants = crying/smiling (reflexive and social)

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explain negative emotional expression in childhood

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Children learn to mask negative emotional expression as they learn more abt the rules of social interactions
- expressing most intense reaction doesn’t always lead to goals

differences between collectivist and individualistic cultures

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explain emotional expressing in adulthood

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Can learn to completely mask it

Expression become more mixed/complex

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regulation of emotional experience (define)

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How we control and direct our behaviour while emotional signals are being communicated (must experience emotion before learning how to regulate)

Social and cultural rules modulate expression

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Early regualtion of emotional experience

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More emotional regulation needed as the infant enters childhood and social word becomes more complex

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How do we learn to regulate emotions in 3 different ways?

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  1. emotionally: ceasing to feel
  2. cognitively: restructuring, shifting focus
  3. behaviourally: do something that changes way we feel
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Later regualtion of emotional experience

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Better self regulation = better psychosocial outcomes

Improves with experience

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emotional understanding/recognition (explain)

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Understanding and recognising emotion = interpreting and encoding emotional signals from others

improves with cog development

enables theory of mind

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What 3 factors help emotional development?

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Family, peers and culture

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Where did Freud believe emotion came from?

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Conflict between id and ego and then anxiety (later on)

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Genetic Field theory (spitz) considered?

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COnsidered affective relations between mother and infant

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Spitz 3 organising principles

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smiling response (recognising difference between self and others)

anxiety in presence of stranger (getting to know who you can trust)

semantic communication (learning to communicate and say no)

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Behaviourist theory 3 basic emotions?

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Fear, Rage, Love

Emotions are thought to be habits or reflexes conditioned by the environment

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What did cognitive approaches to emotion suggest?

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That it is the appraisal that is important (how you see event)

emotions do not occur without an antecedent appraisal , and this appraisal causes the emotion

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What is the dynamic integration theory of emotion?

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As cognition develops, it transforms out emotional repertoire and regulation

As adults age, cog resources are depleted

23
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What is the trait theory of emotion?

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Temperament considered to be biological basis of personality

24
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Thomas and Chess trait theory categorisation of children?

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Easy child: good mood, regular cycles, positive

Difficult child: irregular cycles, slow to adapt to change, frustrated, problems

Slow-to-warm-up child: fairly regular cycles, accepts novelty after repeated exposure, problems vary

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What did Eisenberg believe about trait theory temperament of children? 3 temperaments

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Negative affect: easily distressed, cry, inhibited

Self-regulation: have strategies to regulate emotions, can self soothe

Positive affect: approach novel situations/people, uninhibited

26
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Difference between language and facial expression of emotion?

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Language = culturally specific

Facial expression: culturally universal

27
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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

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emotions which have different functions also cause facial expression which provide us with cures about what emotion someone is experiencing

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What is the dynamic systems theory assumptions?

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Elements interact reciprocally (adjusting themselves to each other, and to continuous changes in other people and events)

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3 Processing in dynamic systems theory

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Appraisals: assessments of relations between perceived events and persons goals, motives and concerns

Affect systems: Biological and bodily processes that contribute to the experience of emotion

Overt action tendencies: the need to act in the context of a given type of appraised event and affective experience

30
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What is Morality?

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A system of values and systems of conduct becaused on the distinction between right and wrong

31
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What is moral reasoning

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The thinking process behind deciding whether an act is right or wrong

32
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What is moral development?

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Maturational changes in judgements, behaviours, and emotions about what is right/wrong

33
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Babies and toddlers are seen as?

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amoral - no morals

34
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What do children internalise moral rules through?

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Social learning experiences

35
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When do children start to show empathic concerns?

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13-15 months

36
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What can children distinguish between? (2)

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someone’s intentions and consequences of their acts

moral rules and social conventional rules

37
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Moral behaviour in adolescence?

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Start to internalise the moral standards of their culture

  • a few engage in juvenile delinquency
38
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What did Freud focus on in MD?

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Role of emotions especially guilt and shame

39
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Describe Freud 3 time points of MD

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Before age 5: parents enforce standards

After 5 years: internalise parents standards and now superego guides own behaviour

Adolescence: Superego becomes more independent

40
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Cognitive-developmental theory of MD

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Moral development proceeds through a series of stages, reflecting social-cog development.

Eventually engage in reciprocity

NOT WHAT WE DO BUT WHY

41
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Piaget’s 3 periods of morality

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Premoral: little awareness (not yet moral) - up to 6 yo
Heteronomous morality: rules are external (MR is absolute) - uo to 10 yo
Autonomous morality: rules are internal (MR is relative) - 10/11

42
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Kohlberg’s theory of MD

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Categorised REASONS for answers, according to stages of MD

Concluded that morality develops in universal, invariants stages, each growing from the next

43
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Kohlberg’s 3 levels of MD

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Preconventional: avoid punishment and gain rewards (punishment/obedience & exchange)

Conventional: social rules (peer opinion & law and order)

Postconventional: moral principles (individual right & self-chosen universal principles)

44
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Gilligan’s ethics of care view of MD

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Females emphasise interpersonal concerns over justice and individual rights

  • survival orientation
  • conventional care
  • integrated care
45
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Social Cognitive theory of MD

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Focus is on moral behaviour
- MD is continuous not stage like

Learned through operant conditioning and modelling

Socially appropriate behaviour in one context is applied to new ones

46
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Bandura SC (triadic reciprocal determinism)

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persons emotion and cognition + social aspects of environment = moral behaviour

Moral performance does not equal more competence

47
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Bandura’s moral self-regulation says we?

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We monitor and evaluate our own actions and approve/disapprove ourselves accordingly

48
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Bandura’s moral disengagement allows us to

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Allows us to avoid self-condemnation

49
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Information processing approach of MD

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More toward weighting factors eg cause, responsibility, blame, punishment/no punishment

50
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Justice and care differences

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Male: justice
Females: care

  • no gender differences in own lives

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