PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ball Pit, Ethology, Social Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Basic emotions are the earliest form of social communication. Over the first year of life, refinement of states from general approach (positive) versus withdrawal (negative) to discrete emotions. Involves coordination of facial, vocal, and bodily expressions of emotion. 4-6 months: anger expression, increase in frequency and intensity with age: influenced by cognitive and motor developments, sadness expressed at separation from caregiver. 6 months: increases in frequency and intensity. See babies become wary of strangers: lack of contingency and emotion in others is upsetting. More cognitively advanced require an understand of self (example: shame, guilt, 15 months: explicit self-awareness presented with a mirror. Emotional self-regulation: adjust emotional state to meet goals, transfer from external to internal control. 2: related to cortical (frontal cortex) and cognitive (understanding of self) development. Biologically-based, relatively stable individual differences in responding that forms basis of personality. Relatively stable individual differences in reactions to novelty by 4 months of age.