PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Shaving Cream, Orbicularis Oculi Muscle, Baby Talk
Document Summary
Chapter 8 development of emotions in childhood. During development, specific emotions are expressed in recognizable forms. Expression of disgust is seen in newborns following sour taste. By 2 months, adults are better at distinguishing happy expressions. Using affex or baby-facs for coding facial expressions babies smile occasionally, but do not socially smile until after first month or two. By 3rd month, they occur frequently in interaction with caregiver. Mastery of skills makes infants happy smiling occurs. Their smiles also function to draw adults into affectionate interactions. Expression time of distinct negative emotions is more problematic occurs in ~3rd month. 2month-old babies show anger/fussiness when string-pulling no longer turned music on. Testing the relation of emotional expressions to specific elicitors, 2 criteria for discrete emotions are: predicted expression occurs more often than non-predicted, predicted expression displayed more often in appropriate eliciting circumstance than non- predicted circumstances.
