PSYC 4176 Study Guide - Mental Model, Vivid Imaginations, Parenting
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The functions of emotions: your emotion is a rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation, which prepares you for action, the functionalist approach to emotion emphasizes that the broad function of emotions is to energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals, point out that emotions contribute to the emergence of self awareness, self efficacy confidence at being able to control events in their surroundings, functionalists also emphasize that to adapt to their physical and social worlds, children must gain control over their emotions, just as they do their motor, cognitive, and social behavior. Happiness: first expressed in blissful smiles and later through exuberant laughter contributes to many aspects of development, smiles occur from birth, between 6 and 10 weeks, the human face evokes a broad grin called the social smile, laughter, which appears around 3 to 4 months, reflects faster processing of information than does smiling.
