PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Hans Eysenck, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness
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Temper tantrums are most common in the second year. Physical aggression peaks at 24 42 months of age and declines steadily thereafter. When children learn to speak, they can talk about what distresses them or angers them rather than communicating only through expressions and actions. Mobility also has an important effect: when infants begin to move and can start to satisfy some of their own desires, their need for an intense signaling system lessens. Regulation starts with the modulation of the expression of emotion (first fostered by caregiver and then gradually becomes internalized by the child: parent soothing child, infant becomes able to do that themselves) Cichetti, ganian and barnett (1991) described states of emotion regulation. Failure at one stage has implications for subsequent stages: 1) first months: task is to achieve stability in functioning (signalling distress and receiving comfort from caregiver.
