CHYS 3P12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health And Development Study, Social Emotions, Longitudinal Study
15 May 2018
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CHYS 3P12 Friday September 29 2017
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EMOTIONS IN INFANCY
· importance of early experience on health outcomes
· DUNEDIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY - they followed 100 students for over 45 years
looked at early temperaments, attachment and had 5 different types of personalities treats
in adults
· Building on the EMOTIONAL FOUNDATION during infancy (first year of life)
· Infants are beginning to show the signs of experiencing an emotional life
o Built in emotional expresssions/reflect actions
o Corresponds with the 6 basic emotions (digust, fear etc
• DISGUST
• FEAR
• ANGER
• HAPPY
• SAD
• EXCITED
· around 6 months, subjective awareness starts to develop
· maslows pyramid of needs – emotional expression in infants
· during the first year of life that leads to awareness and subjective emotion
o infant capabilities
o expression of basic emotion
o failure to thrive (FTT)
· Key themes*
o Emotional dev. Duing infancy represents a reciprocal and self organizing nature of emotional
development during infancy
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o Emerges through repeated interactions, and becomes more predictable
o Biological foundation for the dev. Of -/+ emotions (upper limbi system becomes increasingly
myelinated around 6months of age and onward
Dual coding of mental events
· 0-3months =
o awareness and focused arousal in the first few months of life
o pleasant or unpleasant experiences
o proto-emotions because they are not subjectively felt >>not satisfied
· 3-6months (make sure baby is satisfied and comfortable)
o proto emotions that for the dev of secondary emotions
o linked with the ability to discriminate the pleasant and the unpleasant
o satisfaction (absence of discomfort)
o frustration (cessation of pleasure experience and discomfort)
o begin to understand changes in environment and notice time
o problem when dependency needs are not met (based on attachment theory
§ leads to anxious fear **especially of the unfamiliar
o discomfort displeasure (frustration) is needed in small amount in the short term to experience
satisfaction
o LT frustration w/o satisfaction leads to adverse emotional outcome
· 6+
o experience their first subjective emotional feelings
o can have thoughts about emotions
o begin to attach meaning (cognitively) to emotional expressions
VISUAL ACTIVITY
· most caregivers hold their head about 1ft from their infants during face to face
interactions
· by 10wks baby can respond to mothers facial expression >> social referencing
· by 3months infants can recognize mothers face in a photograph
o look to mother over stranger
o can differentiate facial expressions
· older than 3months
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Document Summary
Importance of early experience on health outcomes. Dunedin longitudinal study - they followed 100 students for over 45 years looked at early temperaments, attachment and had 5 different types of personalities treats in adults. Building on the emotional foundation during infancy (first year of life) Infants are beginning to show the signs of experiencing an emotional life: built in emotional expresssions/reflect actions, corresponds with the 6 basic emotions (digust, fear etc, disgust, fear, anger, happy, sad, excited. Around 6 months, subjective awareness starts to develop. Maslows pyramid of needs emotional expression in infants. During the first year of life that leads to awareness and subjective emotion: infant capabilities, expression of basic emotion, failure to thrive (ftt) Duing infancy represents a reciprocal and self organizing nature of emotional development during infancy: emerges through repeated interactions, and becomes more predictable, biological foundation for the dev. Of -/+ emotions (upper limbi system becomes increasingly myelinated around 6months of age and onward.
