[PSY 302] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (136 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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How many age periods of lifespan are there? (no right answer) Infancy and toddlerhood: prenatal, preschool/early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood. Why do we have emotions: how can emotions help development, forming relationships, strongly tied to motivation. Innate and universal: automatic, represented by distinct facial expressions, plutchik - 8: acceptance, anger, anticipation, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise. Social referencing: visual cliff exa(cid:373)ple: at (cid:1005)(cid:1006) (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths, if (cid:373)other expresses . Shifts from focus on parental to do-it-yourself strategies as child ages: dimensions, valence (pleasantness, activation/arousal. Temperaments: genetic predispositions to behave and react in a specific manner (including emotional manner) - genetic building block, predisposition, not predetermination, relatively stable across time and different situations. Shyness: activity level, measuring temperament, parental reports/questionnaires, laboratory visits, physiological measures, temperament stability, temperament influences personality and emotional development throughout the lifespan, e. g. longitudinal studies of behavioral inhibition by kagen et. al. Individuals were seen at 14 months, 21 months, 7. 5 years, and 13 years.
