PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Facial Action Coding System, Emotion Classification, 18 Months
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By 5. 5 to 7 months, infants treat each other"s emotions as meaningful. Between 5. 5-12 months, children start to exhibit social referencing. By 2-3, children demonstrate ability to label facial expressions and simple situations associated with happiness. Discrete: each emotion is separate: basic or self-conscious emotions, basic: happiness, fear, anger, and sadness, ekman"s model, basic emotions must be innate, universal, automatic, has distinct facial expression, facs: facial action coding system. Dimensions: points on a chart: valence: positive or negative, arousal: mild to intense. ~7 months: becomes more selective; laughter is in play. End of 2nd year: purposeful smiling; more sensitive to other emotions. 4-7 months: infants can distinguish certain emotional expression. Age 3: rudimentary ability to label narrow range of emotional expression. Visual cliff: more likely to cross if mom is happy. Regulation of emotions: age 1-2 rely more on themselves to regulate emotions.
