PSY BEH 110D Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Emotional Contagion, Dawning Information Industry, Pediatrics
8 Sep 2016
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Chapter 10 - temperament, emotions, and the self. There is agreement that temperament consists of qualities that parents as well as researchers are able to discern, including irritability, soothability, motor activity, sociability, attentiveness, adaptability, response to novelty, arousal, and regulation of states. Temperament - a theoretical construct consisting of constitutionally based individual differences in emotionality, motor activity, attentiveness, adaptability, and self-regulation. No clear consensus about how many dimensions of temperament exist or how to measure them. a. Remarkable individual differences in infants" patterns of sleeping, waking, feeding, fussing, and crying. These patterns often can be predicted from differences in fetal activity. i. Parents have a vast amount of experience with their infants across a wide range of settings. Less expensive to use than other methods of testing temperament, such as observations in the laboratory or at home. Low to moderate levels of agreement between mothers and fathers. i)
