PSYC18H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8.doc
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Emotion is the first language of us all. Biologically based expressions: e. g. first emotional communication: a cry, enables infant and parent communication, takes the form of culture o. Child at the end of first year = social being (sociality organized around emotions) Tomkins (1962): proposed that each emotion comes as an innate package with its own neural program. Newborn infants: emotional expressions are outward, visible signs of inner programs, disgust sour tastes. First few days of life: expressions of distinct emotions other than disgust are hard to distinguish. Izard"s max affex o: oster"s baby-facs expressions, facs. Adaptation for infants of ekman and friesen"s coding scheme for adult. 1-2 month-old: social smiles emerge (younger babies seem to give off smiles, but they are not social smiles) 3-month-old: smiles = interaction with caregiver (association with happiness: smile in response to the same kinds of event that make older children and adults happy.
