PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Attention Span, Cognitive Development

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Emotional intelligence (ei) (understand ur own emotions and interpret other people"s emotions), emotions affect us in so many ways) Being able to motivate oneself and persist in face of frustration. Regulate the expression of emotion in social interactions. Ei is a better predictor than iq of how well ppl do in their life (especially social life) Preschoolers abilities to delay gratification were found to predict their social, emotional, and academic competence many years later. Cognitions or perceptions (think about even and how u feel about it, interpreting environment) Subjective feelings (how u feel, happy, fear, how subject feels) Characterized by motivational force/action tendency and by changes in physiology/ subjective feelings and overt behaviour. Argues: emotions are innate and discrete from one another early in life, and each emotion is packaged with a specific and distinctive set of bodily and facial reactions. Eckman, he went out cross culturally and coded for adult emotions (dif muscles in face go with dif emotions)