PSYC 2450 Chapter 9: CHAPTER 9
25 Mar 2016
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Chapter 9: emotional development, temperament and attachment (p. 312- 325 only) Help people adapt to their environment (i. e. fear become atenive to surroundings; helps to organize your behaviour around an important goal which is avoiding danger. Happiness is adapive is contribuing to stronger interpersonal relaionships. Disgust is adapive in keeping people away from substances that make them ill. Happiness, anger, surprise, interest, disgust, sadness and fear basic emoions . Basic emoions: experienced by people worldwide, and each consists of a subjecive feeling, a physiological change and an overt behaviour. Newborns only experience two general emoions: happiness and distress by 8 or 9 months, they experience all emoions. Social smiles: infants smile when they see another person pleasure or interacion. Anger is the irst of negaive emoions to emerge from distress an typically does so between 4 to. As infants get older, they become increasingly angry when their atempts to achieve a goal aren"t fulilled.
