PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Developmental Psychology, John Bowlby, Overjustification Effect
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Week 11 lecture #9: thursday july 14, 2016. Looking at the emotions and development in children. Why development early on is important for later in life. Big predictor of success: why is it important for development, the parent-child relationship. Shapes the children"s ability to navigate in everyday life in an emotional way: the origin of emotional intelligence, the outside world. Shapes the child"s ability to build eq: consequences of play. Playing and imagination: the development of altruism. But evidence that they"re not selfish, turns out to be altruism. Differential emotions theory basic emotions are hard-wired & present from birth. Emotions we have are biologically engrained from birth. Every emotion have an unique emotional signature. Differentiation theory infants start out with 2 basic emotion states (negative vs. positive) Positive affect state: everything is good and they"re happy. Negative affect state: not feeling so good. Not differentiate from born (e. g. , fear and anger), only sense displeasure.
