PSYC-223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.1: Test Anxiety, School Refusal, 18 Months
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Fear is reduced in a familiar vs unfamiliar environment; the person should refrain. Adaptive purpose: babies are beginning to crawl and should stay close to familiar. Social smiles: by 2-3 months babies will smile at a person (reflects pleasure); often. Consists of three elements: a subjective feeling, a physiological change, and an overt. Anger appears at 4-6 months: often in response to having something taken away or when. Fear: 6 months, called stranger wariness (become wary in the presence of unfamiliar adults; Disgust: emerges by preschool and fed by parental cues such as their response or face. Adaptive purpose: keeps children away from illness or disease inducing substances (ie feces, Modern theories emphasize the functional value of emotion: emotions are useful because they help us adapt to our environment and organizes our behaviour around a certain goal (ie disgust helps us avoid sour milk) Basic emotions: happiness, anger surprise, interest, disgust, sadness and fear; a culturally universal experience behaviour.
