HDFS220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Harry Harlow, John Bowlby, Mental Model
10 Dec 2017
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Social and emotional factors are crucial to the wellbeing of all humans: the two interact with positive social experiences influencing positive emotional development, and good emotional development leading to more positive relationships. What is emotion: emotion the (cid:271)od(cid:455)"s ph(cid:455)siologi(cid:272)al rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to a situatio(cid:374), the (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) of the situation, communication to another person, and actions, two main types of emotion: Basic (primary) emotions (innate -- they are born with this) Complex (self-conscious) emotions (develop this later in life -- think of themselves, socially constructed {must understand social experiences}) Influenced by experiences: example: boys don"t cry -- this can turn into anger instead of sadness. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d toddlers ha(cid:448)e a (cid:374)atural te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) to share other people"s feeli(cid:374)gs =empathy. Infants often mirror the emotions of others: pick up emotions of people they are surrounded with. Temperament profiles: thomas & chess (1999) describe 3 basic types of temperament, based on nine characteristics, activity level, adaptability, approach vs. withdrawal, attention span and persistence, distractibility.
