PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jerome Kagan, Terrycloth, Attachment Theory
8 Jan 2017
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An adaptation designed to respond to specific cues in the social environment, allowing one to pursue the most advantageous social strategy. A subjective affective experience, often in response to a stimuli, that may be accompanied by a specific physiological signature, facial expression, and behavioural response. They allow one to act functionally in the environment, where acting functionally means behaving in a way that increases survival and reproductive success. The child smiles more at familiar people. The child smiles when they can influence the world. At 3 months, the infant can soothe themselves or turn away. Between 1 and 2 years, infantcan choose less distressing activity to soothe herself. By 3 years, childis able to mask disappointment in order to act pleased. The ability to regulate emotion is due at least in part to brain development, especially in the frontal cortex. Emotions seems out of proportion to events. More positive emotions with peers, but overall more negative emotions.
