BPH 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: 18 Months, Life Satisfaction, Social Cognition

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Public Health
• Course: BPH 317
• Professor: Jill Sanko

Document Summary

Infants begin to use social referencing: around 9 months, monitor companions emotional reactions to stimuli, use this information to decide how to feel and behave (ex. Self conscious emotions emerge: requires self awareness, embarrassment, pride, guilt. Shame: emotional learning in childhood, as children get older, they, develop emotional competence, patterns of emotional expression, greater understanding of emotion, and better emotion regulation skills. Socialization process, parent to child: emotional display rules vary from culture to culture, how parents react and socialize their children may also differ. Fretting and crying: adults hormonally "prepared" for caregiving, oxytocin- produced in the hypothalamus, moms with higher level of oxytocin after birth are more attentive to their infant, oxytocin is also produced during breastfeeding. Infants construct expectations about relationships via internal working models: cognitive representations of themselves and other people, guide processing of social information and behavior in relationships. Securely attached infants will develop secure internal working models that they are lovable.