PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.4: Emotional Contagion, Broccoli, Metacognition
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Other researchers believe emotional expressiveness is acquired through operant conditioning. 3-4 m/o: can match emotion in voice with appropriate face. Sensitive to structure and timing of face to face interactions. 5+ m/o: perceive facial expressions as organized patterns, meaningful. 7-12 m/o: erp of infants attending to facial expressions show reorganized brain wave patterns resembling those of adults. 8-10m/o: begin to evaluate unfamiliar people, objects and events in terms of safety. Social referencing: relying on another person"s emotional reaction to appraise an uncertain situation. Can determine whether child will cross a visual cliff, be wary of strangers or play with an unfamiliar toy. Voice is more effective than facial expression alone. Conveys verbal and emotional info so baby can focus on evaluating event. Retain emotional messages in memory over longer time intervals. 18 m/o: social referencing includes indirect emotional signals. Adult react angrily to second adult play with toy 18 m/o reduce play w/ toy.
