PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Asteroid Family, Dazed, The Anatomy Of Dependence
13 Mar 2013
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Chapter 12 - emotional development, temperament, and attachment. Displaying emotions: the development (and control) of emotional expressions. Izard"s procedure to test infants" emotional expression, test raters, who are unaware of the events that an infant has experienced, to tell him what emotion the infant is experiencing from their facial expressions. Results show, different adults observing same expressions reliably see same emotions. Other results, adults can usually tell which positive emotion a baby is experiencing (joy vs. interest) but not for negative emotions (fear vs. anger) Basic emotions: the set of emotions present at birth or emerging early in the first year that some theorists believe to be biologically programmed. At birth, babies show interest, distress, disgust and contentment. Between 2 and 7 months anger, sadness, joy, surprise, and fear. Biologically programmed because they emerge in all healthy infants at roughly same ages and in all cultures. Some learning required to express emotions not present at birth.
