PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: The First Three Years, Joint Attention, Intentionality
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Chapter 8: psychosocial development during the first three years. Foundations of psychosocial development: personality, relatively consistent blend of emotions, temperament, thought and behavior that makes each person unique, psychosocial development, combination of personality development with social relationships. Emotions: subjective reactions to experience that are associated with physiological and behavioral changes, develop during infancy and are a basic element of personality, culture influences the way people, feel about a situation, show their emotions. First signs of emotion: crying, most powerful way infants can communicate their needs, patterns, hunger, anger, pain, and frustration cries. Ideal approach: prevent distress, making soothing unnecessary, smiling and laughing, social smiling, when newborn infants gaze at their parents and smile at them, laughter, smile linked vocalization. Identify with what others are feeling: self-evaluative emotions, depend on both self-awareness and knowledge of socially accepted standards and behavior, pride, shame, guilt. Inability to consider another person"s point of view: characteristic of young children"s thought.
