PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Kewpie, Ethology, Dazed
1 Nov 2016
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Chapter twelve - emotional, development, temperament, and attachment. At birth, babies display interest, distress, disgust, and contentment. Basic emotions - the set of emotions, present at birth or emerging early in the first year, that some theorists believe to be biologically programmed. Anger, sadness, surprise, and fear normally appear by the middle of the first year. By 8 to 10 months of age, infants are capable of social referencing. Social referencing - the use of others" emotional expressions to infer the meaning of otherwise ambiguous situations. Understanding others" emotions also helps children infer how to feel, think, or behave in uncertain situations. Such components of temperament as activity level, irritability, sociability, and behavioural inhibition are moderately stable over time regularity/predictability of bodily functions such as eating, sleeping, and bowel functioning. Behavioural inhibition - a temperamental attribute reflecting a tendency to withdraw from unfamiliar people or situations temperamental attributes often cluster in easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up profiles.
