01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Major Depressive Disorder, Tantrum, The Emotions

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: Margaret Ingate

Document Summary

Introduction: preschoolers and delayed gratification with treats, emotional intelligence: a set of abilities that contribute to competence in the social and emotional domains. Emotional intelligence predicts how well people do in life, especially in their social lives. The development of emotions in childhood: emotion: characterized by physiological responses, subjective feelings, cognitions related to those feelings, and the desire to take action, emotions are seen in terms of several components: Physiological factors: heart and breath rate, hormone levels, etc. The cognitions that may elicit or accompany subjective feelings. The desire to take action, including the desire to escape, approach, or change people or things in the environment: theories on the nature and emergence of emotion. Alan sroufe believes there are three basic affect systems- joy/pleasure, anger/frustration and wariness/fear- and these systems undergo developmental change from primitive to more advanced forms during the early years of life.