PSY BEH 101D Lecture 5: Lifespan Development (PSYBEH 101D) - LEC. 5
14 May 2018
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• October 31, 2017
• Pragmatics: meaning of language and communication is shaped between a speaker and listener
based on context
• Develops across childhood
o Rapid increase in middle childhood (self-generated [awareness]; knowledge improves)
o Influenced by others
o Parents scaffold
• Language:
o Rapid development: so long as some exposure
• In sound and vocabulary
• In grammar
• In semantics
o Socialization necessary too
• Which language(s) is learned
• The pragmatics
• Test: study 5 & 6 & 9 & 10
• Social-Emotional Development
o Process by which children become integrated into the larger society and differentiated
as distinctive individuals
• Emotional Competence
o Understanding expressing and regulating one's feelings, and recognizing emotions in
others
• Essential to mental health and control
• Low competence predicts host of problems (aggressiveness and difficulties with
peers)
• Emotion regulation
o Heavily relies on scaffolding (provide comfort, label emotions, direct attention to help
children cope and teach them skills)
o Dramatic changes in childhood
o Number and duration of emotional outbursts decrease
• Koko the gorilla
o Heavily influenced by parental scaffolding
o Others help as well, often via language and support
• i.e. Chinese preschoolers
• Metacognitive strategies: changing feelings so that emotion experience is
different
▪ Change thoughts and feelings so that negative emotions go away
o Davis, Levine, Quas et al.
• 5-6 yr olds
▪ Describe experiences that made you sad/mad/afraid
▪ What did you do to make your sad feelings go away
• Coded responses for strategies
▪ Behavioral (efforts to change expression or situation)
▪ Metacognitive (thought-based efforts to change emotion experienced)
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