PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Mirror Neuron, David Buss, Birth Weight
28 Apr 2014
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Temperament: an individual"s typical mode of response including activity level, emotional intensity, and attention span; used particularly to describe infants" and children"s behaviour. Mary rothbart: interested in the origins of temperament and attention, broad dimensions to understand infant and children 3 categories, 1) effortful control. Attention control capacity to focus attention as well as to shift attention when desired. Inhibitory control capacity to plan future action and suppress inappropriate responses: 2) negative affectivity. Frustration negative affect related to interruption of ongoing tasks or goal blocking. Fear negative affect related to anticipation of distress: 3) extraversion surgency. High-intensity pleasure pleasure derived from activities involving high intensity or novelty. Smiling and laughter positive affect in response to changes in stimulus intensity. Genetic factors: temperament may be at least in part genetically determined and genetic influences may become increasingly prominent through early childhood, most psychologists today consider temperament to be the result of both heredity and environment.
