PSYC2208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Disorder, Social Cognition, Psychopathology
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Emotion: core element in human experience, central feature of how infants act, and regulate their behaviour, affects how we read emotions and interpret situations, emotional reactivity: Individual differences in the threshold (e. g. when they experience anger) and intensity of emotional experience: emotional regulation, enhancing, maintaining or inhibiting emotional arousal, e. g. if you receive a present you don(cid:1685)t like expressing the correct emotion. Contributes to significant developmental problems: e. g. establishing relationships with others. Important part of temperament: the balance between emotional reactivity and self-control. Research designs: matched-group designs, designs investigating heritability, longitudinal designs investigating time course of disorder, designs evaluating interventions. Limitations: difficult to find appropriately matched typically developing children, e. g. in autism studies, difficult to find children that are very similar and typically developing. Researchers then examined their first birthday party videos, and rated the video for early signs of autism: limitations: sample children may not be representative of entire population, prospective, time 1 time 2, e. g.
