PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Emotions, Attachment In Adults, Social Cognition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Gustavo Gottret

Document Summary

Developmental niche: charles super, sara harkness, provide framework for thinking about parenting as a culturally constructed interface btwn the larger environment and development of children (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2, composed of 3 subsystems: physical and social settings in which child lives, cultural customs of child care and child rearing and psychology of the caregivers. Babies display basic primary emotions: distress by crying, interest by staring attentively, pleasure by smiling, sadness and anger, fear. As their sense of self emerges, emotions develops: secondary smile: embarrassment is displayed by repeatedly looking away, often w shy, empathy displayed by crying in response to crying of another, jealously e. g. of new sibling. 10 yrs: children categorize emotions as accurately as adults (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) play (cid:2) Has less predictable schedules, withdraws from new situations, and reacts intensely to stimuli (10% of infants) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2)