PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Birth Weight, Social Inequality, Psychopathology
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Like how birth weight, cognitive challenges, difficult temperament: mesosystem and exosystem level. Factors related to low family income and increased stress on parents are associated with abuse. Lack of face to face interaction: possibility of anonymity, no escaping outside of school and social situations, easy to do and advancing technology means more platforms and more access to technology. Emotional intelligence: being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustration, control impulses and delay gratification, regulate one"s moods. Identify and understand one"s own and other"s feelings: regulate the expression of emotion in social interaction, emphasize with other"s emotions, emotional intelligence, marshmallow test. Infants laugh as well as smile during a variety of activities: at about 7 months. Infants start to smile primarily at familiar people, rather than at people in general: during the second year of life, children start to clown around and are delighted when they can make people laugh, negative emotions, generalized distress.
