PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stella Chess, Age 13, Longitudinal Study
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A set of abilities that contribute to competent social functioning: Being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustration. Identify and understand one"s own and others" feelings. Regulate the expression of emotion in social interactions. A better predictor than iq of how well people will do in life, especially in their social lives. In research by walter mischel, preschoolers" abilities to delay gratification were found to predict their social, emotional, and academic competence many years later: the nature of emotion: Emotion is characterized by a motivational force or action tendency and by changes in physiology, subjective feelings, and overt behavior. Although most psychologists share this general view of emotion, they often do not agree on the relative importance of its key components. Emotions are innate and are discrete from one another from very early in life. Each emotion is packaged with a specific and distinctive set of bodily and facial reactions: the functionalist approach:
