PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Display Rules, Attention Span, Social Emotions
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Development of emotions in childhood: emotional intelligence: set of abilities that are key to competent social functioning emotion: characterized by neural and physiological responses, subjective feelings, cognitions related to those feelings, and the desire to take action. Emotions are not discrete from one another and vary somewhat based on social environment dynamic-systems theory: novel forms of functioning arise through the spontaneous coordination of components interacting repeatedly. From early in life, emotions play an important role in both survival and social communication. Although infants show negative and positive a ect from birth, it"s not clear whether young infants experience di erent types of negative emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. Emotions undergo change in the early months and years of life. Smiles become social around the 2nd to 3rd month of life, and what makes children smile and laugh changes with cognitive development social smiles: smiles directed at people; emerge at 6-7w of age.
