PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Socio-emotional Development
8 Aug 2016
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How are other people and how do i interact with them. Definitions: self: a slippery concept whose adequate definition is irritatingly elusive, self-understanding: our understanding of who and what we are. Developmental course of self-understanding: some people only achieve this after 20s. Survival value: emotions help people adapt to their environment. Behaviours change in response to emotional state: pleasure reinforces behaviours we need to repeat to be fit and pain is the opposite, a good meal, sex, achieving complex tasks, etc. Measuring emotions: facial expressions are only one component. Smiling in both adults and babies accompany electrical activity in left frontal cortex. There are different variations in smiling, depending on the stimulus involved: age 5-6 months facial expressions become more predictable. Only pleasure and distress: 2-3 mos. Joy and social smiling, sadness: 4-6 mos. Stranger wariness comes with person permanence at age 6 mos: 8-9 mos. Development of complex emotions: self-conscious emotions that involve feelings of success and failure.
