PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Emotions, Twin Study, Habituation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Humans form many social relations during development. Infant is predisposed to form social relations. Behaviours such as crying and smiling are important tools for the infant. Babies are programmed with behaviours (crying) that draw the mother close and that the mother is programmed to detect and respond to the baby. Mother-infant attachment results from social learning processes (reward, punishment, modeling) Mother and child develop working mental models of each other"s behaviours. Biology interacts with culture to influence social and emotional development. Internal reaction or feeling that is positive or negative. At birth, babies can indicate distress by crying, interest by staring, disgust to unpleasant tastes or odours. At 10 12 weeks, pleasure is indicated by smiling. At 7 months, facial expression of fear is evident in babies. Infants can emit facial expressions and are capable of responding to or modeling the facial reactions of others.