PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Kewpie, Dazed, The Anatomy Of Dependence
9 Dec 2015
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Babies communicate a variety of feelings through their facial expressions and this becomes more recognizable with age. At birth, babies show interest, distress, disgust and contentment. Between 2 and 7 months of age babies also show anger, sadness, joy and surprise. These basic emotions are believed to be biologically programmed. Later in their second year infants begin to display complex emotions such as embarrassment, shame, guilt, envy and pride; these emotions are self-conscious as they involve damage or enhancement to our sense of self. Each culture has emotional display rules that specify which emotions should or should not be expressed under which circumstances. In the first few months caregivers do this by controlling their exposure to events. By the middle of the first year babies will turn away from unpleasant stimuli. By 18 to 24 months toddlers try to control the actions of people or objects that upset them.
