PSY BEH 110D Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Operant Conditioning, Heritability, Twin
8 Sep 2016
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Identical twins have similar emotional reactions to things, more so than fraternal twins. Social smile emerges around 6 weeks of age. Researchers watch how parents demonstrate and the infants try to pick up on what the parents do. Emotions help in achieving goals and adapting to the environment. Reactions to strangers appear to be universal, but reactions vary among some cultures. Characteristics of strangers matter when infants demonstrate distress reactions. Reactions to child strangers more neutral than adult strangers. An apparently universal reaction that peaks in western infants around 15 months. Separation protest sometimes reappears in other forms at later ages (imagine older children going. Separation protest sometimes reappears in other forms at later ages (imagine older children going to summer camp) Requires the differentiation and integration of multiple factors in context (your feelings, for example, with the feelings of someone else) Thinking about how others are going to perceive you. Coincides with development of self-awareness around 18 months.
