PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mental Model, Mary Ainsworth, Kewpie

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Anne Bowker

Document Summary

Infants born with ability to express emotions, using same facial features as adults. Theory of differentiation in emotional development: sroufe. No innate specifics, but ability to express a general positive emotion (i feel good) and a general negative emotion (i feel terrible) Infants feel the same way adults do when showing the same facial expressions. American"s are more likely to express negative emotions. Age changes positive emotions: social smile. 2 months: smile and laugh 4 months, react to meaning of event 12 months. Age changes negative emotions: express anger, fear, more complex emotions such as shame, guilt. If mom shows a scared face to the baby they won"t cross the cliff. If they realize the dot in actually on them and not on the mirror, they have a sense of self. Expressing emotions can be encouraged or discouraged depending on reactions of others. By 3 months: can discriminate happy from sad faces.