PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Attention Span
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Infants 1st smiles indiscriminate: by 3-8 weeks, smiling happens in response to external stimuli, eventually, smiling directed more towards primary caregivers. Fear: at 3 months, infants show wariness, by 7-9 months, babies show true fear: negative reaction to an event with specific meaning for them. Anger and sadness: both in response to pain, hunger, lack of control, distress more common earlier becomes refined into anger and sadness later, sadness less common in response to infant-caregiver breakdown in communication. Temperament: patterns of arousal and emotionality: consistent and enduring characteristics of an individual, differences among infants appear from the time of birth, stabile over time, major components, mood/affect, fearful distress. Irritable distress: positive effect, arousal level, activity level, attention span, rhythmicity (patterns of feeding, sleep, etc. , adaptability. Inhibited: reacts to unfamiliar people and situations with avoidance, distress, restraint, takes longer to relax in new situations, has more fears and phobias. Is timid and cautious: uninhibited is the opposite of inhibited.
