PSY 171 Lecture 9: Emotional Development
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Emotions are not quite the same as feeling. Involve a subject reaction to 432 in the environment. Accompanied with physiological response (something, blood pressure, heart rate) Communicated to others through verbal, expression and action. Linked to mental health withdrawing from social interaction who are very sad, those who have trouble experiencing positive emotions may have trouble regulating depression and anxiety. 1; emotional expression: emotional understanding, emotional regulation - controlling emotion or arousal to achieve some kind of social acceptance (controlling reactions to sadness and disappointment in older children, and frustration in smaller children) Are the same in diff cultures; universality; regardless of cultures, it is the same everywhere, and in every human (paul ekman) Emotions tend to emerge nearly at the same time for all infants smiling for the first time - infants start to smile around 46 weeks. Children"s emotional expressions can be shaped by the environment.