PSY 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Active Child, The Emotions, Attention Span
Chapter 10 – Emotional Devel’ PSY 213
MAR/18
The devel’ of emotions in childhood
Regulation of emotion
Individual differences in emotion + its regulation
Children’s emotional devel’ in the family
Culture + children’s emotional devel’
Children’s understanding of emotion
Themes
- Nature + nurture
- The active child
- Continuity/discontinuity
- Sociocultural context
- Individual differences
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Being able to motivate oneself + persist in the face of frustration
- Control impulses + delay gratification
- ID + understand ones own + others feelings
- Regulate ones moods
- Regulate the expression of emotion in social interactions
- Empathize w/others emotions
EI is a better predictor than IQ of how well people will do in life, especially in their social lives
- Preschoolers abilities to delay gratification were found to predict their social, emotional,
+ academic competence many yrs later
Emotions
- Characterized by a motivational force or action tendency + by changes in physiology,
subjective feelings + overt b’
Relative importance of components
- Although most psychologists share this general view of emotion, they often do not agree
on the relative importance of its key components
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Chapter 10 – Emotional Devel’ PSY 213
MAR/18
Theories of the Nature + Emergence of Emotion
Discrete emotions theory
- Born w/basic emotions that undergo devel’ change
-Specific emotions matched w/particular sets of physiological, bodily, + facial rxns
- Others argue that joy/pleasure, anger/frustration, wariness/fear are present then become
refined w/devel’
The functionalist approach
- Emotions function to promote actions towards achieving a goal in a given context
- Emotions are not discrete from one another + vary somewhat based on the social enviro
Dynamic systems theory
- Emotional rxns devel’ differently for each person, based on that persons emotion related
biology, cognitive capacities, experiences, + how these factors coalesce over time in an
increasingly over time in an increasingly predictable fashion
All agree that cognition + experience shape emotional devel’
Research supports all perspectives to some degree, + no one theory has emerged as definitive
Emergence of Emotion
IDing infant emotions
- Objective, highly elaborate systems for coding + classifying the emotional meaning of
infants facial expressions
- Difficulty in determining exactly which emotions infants are experiencing especially
among the various -ve emotions that young infants express
Positive Emotions
- Smiling is first clear sign of happiness.
- Meaning of infant smiles appears to change with age.
- Humans are more likely to make infants smile
- 6-7 weeks: Social smiles are directed toward people.
- 2 months: happiness from social and non-social contexts
- 3 or 4 months: laugh & smile at a variety of activities.
- 7 months: smile primarily at familiar people
- 1st year: Unexpected events are enjoyable
- 2nd year: joy in making others laugh
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Document Summary
Being able to motivate oneself + persist in the face of frustration. Id + understand ones own + others feelings. Regulate the expression of emotion in social interactions. Ei is a better predictor than iq of how well people will do in life, especially in their social lives. Preschoolers abilities to delay gratification were found to predict their social, emotional, Characterized by a motivational force or action tendency + by changes in physiology, subjective feelings + overt b". Although most psychologists share this general view of emotion, they often do not agree on the relative importance of its key components. Theories of the nature + emergence of emotion. Born w/basic emotions that undergo devel" change. Specific emotions matched w/particular sets of physiological, bodily, + facial rxns. Others argue that joy/pleasure, anger/frustration, wariness/fear are present then become refined w/devel". Emotions function to promote actions towards achieving a goal in a given context.
