PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Smile, Social Emotions, 18 Months
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Emotions : subjective reactions to something in the environment that are usually experienced cognitively as either pleasant or unpleasant that are generally accompanied by physiological changes and that are often expressed in some form of visible behavior. Emotions are a means of letting others know how we fell and in communicating our emotions and learning to interpret other people"s emotions we achieve social success. Emotions are linked to children"s mental and physical health as well. Physical health suffers too when emotional development goes wrong. Primary emotions- fear, joy, disgust, surprise, sadness and interest occur early in life do not need self reflection. Secondary emotion- pride, jealousy, shame guilt and embarrassment later in dev and depend on our sense of self and our awareness of other individual" reactions to our actions. A child"s emotional dev is influenced by her genetic inheritance, the conditions of the enviro into which she is born her interactions with fam members and later with peers.