PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Heritability
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Babies differ in their patterns of emotional and behavioural reactivity. Emotions: a motivational construct that is characterized by changes in affect (or feelings), physiological responses, cognitions, and overt behaviour. Emotions consist of feelings, physiological correlates, cognitions, and goals. Discrete emotions theory: most basic emotions that humans display are products of our evolutionary history that have some adaptive value. Functionalist perspective: newborns and very young infants do not display discrete emotions; their emotional lives may consist mainly of global experiences of positivity and negativity. A crucially important aspect of children"s emotional development involves learning to regulate emotions to maintain social harmony or achieve other important goals. Adults can usually tell what positive emotion a baby is experiencing from facial expressions, but specific negative emotions are much more difficult to pinpoint on the basis of facial cues alone. Sequencing of discrete emotions in the first year.
