PSY 302 Study Guide - Final Guide: 18 Months, Relational Aggression, Antisocial Personality Disorder
24 Apr 2014
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Emotional intelligence: a set of abilities that contribute to competence in the social and emotional domains. In the first weeks of life, infants" smiles are caused by internal factors, not social. During first month they experience fleeting smiles, mostly during rem sleep. Evoked by a variety of experiences ranging from hunger and pain to. Infants first negative emotion is generalized distress overstimulation. Expressed with cries and a scrunchy face. Social smiles are smiles directed at people and first emerge as early as 6 to 7 weeks of age. Negative: gradually become more differentiated and match situation. Positive: smiles more restricted to familiar people. Main causes include fear of strangers, separation, loud noises, sudden movements. Separation anxiety: feelings of distress that children, especially infants, experience when they are separated, or expect to be separated from people they are emotionally attached. Tends to increase from 8 to 13 or 15 months and then begins to decline.
