PSYC 4240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Change, Prenatal Development

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4240
• Professor: Rosanne Menna

Document Summary

Emotional development social development: temperament, empathy, sympathy, affective responding. More recently emotional development has come to be understood as a core component of children"s social development, reflecting changes in temperament, empathy, sympathy, and affective responding. Temperament: definition consistent inborn dispositions that underlie and affect a person"s response to people, situations, and events a behavioural style. The term temperament has been used to describe individual differences in children or in their behavioural styles. Chess and thomas (1996) explained temperament as a general term referring to the. How of behaviour which differs from ability which in concerned with the what and how well . Characteristics: multi-dimensional (attention, activity, emotionality, sociability) emerge early in life and become stable over time pervasive across a wide range of situations displayed differently at different ages and stages goodness-of-fit is crucial. There are certain characteristics or components of temperament with researchers do agree.