PSYC18H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 notes
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Chapter 8 development of emotions in childhood. Vocal sounds during evolution as momentous, signaling the beginnings of a new kind of adaptation social cooperation. End of first year, one is a social being with sociality organized around emotions. Idea of discrete emotions (tomkins, 1962) proposes that each emotion comes as an innate package with its own neural programs. Emotional expressions, then, are outward, and visible signs of inner programs. Although crying also occurs in very young infants, expressions of distinct emotions other than disgust are hard to distinguish in the first few days of life. By the time they are two months old, adults are generally good at seeing expressions of happiness in their faces. Social smiles do not emerge until after the first month or two. By the third month, they occur frequently in interaction with a caregiver, a situation that we can infer is associated with happiness. Also happens when infants master skills, music, etc.
