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What are emotions?

-The personal significance of the situation


-Physiological/Cognitive Components

Functionalist Approach to Emotions?

-Preparation for appropriate action - establish, maintain or change relation in the environment


-Energize behaviour aimed at attaining personal goals

Basic Emotions

Happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, surprise, and interest

Goal Based theories of basic Emotions?

Goal achievement - Happiness


Goal loss - Sadness


Frustration of goal - Anger


Threats, Danger - Fear


Contamination- Disgust

Focus/shift attention


Inhibit impulses


Manage negative emotions

Self Conscious Emotions?

A higher-order set of feelings


-guilt, shame, embarrassment


-negative feelings about our behaviour

Emotional Self-Regulation?

Ability to control expression of emotion:


Suppressing response =


Execute an adaptive response

Emotional Display Rules

When, where and how it is appropriate to express emotions

Social Referencing?

Relying on another’s persons emotional reaction to appraise an uncertain situation.

Emotional Understanding?

-Infants are sensitive to emotions of others


-Toddlers recognize that others’ emotions may differ from their own


-preschoolers know about happy, sad, anger, fear

Empathy?

Feeling with another person

Sympathy

Feeling of concern or sorrow for other

Temperament?

Patterns of emotional responding

Reactivity? -temperament

Quickness & Intensity


-arousal, attention, action

Self Regulation- temperament

Modifies reactivity

Structure of Temperament?

1. Easy - cheerful, adaptable to new situations, regular routines


2. Difficult - slow to accept new things, negative, intense


3. Slow -Warm - excessive fearfulness, constricted behaviour in classroom, with peers

Rothbart’s Model

1. Activity Level


2. Attention span/persistence


3. Fearful distress


4. Irritable distress


5 positive effect


6. Effortful control

Goodness of Fit Model

How temperament and environment can work together to produce favourable outcomes

Attachment?

Infants strong emotional tie to caregiver

Bowlbys Ethological Theory

The infants emotional tie to the caregiver as an evolved response that promotes survival

Development of Attachment

1. Pre-Attachment (birth)



2. Attachment in the making (6weeks)



3. Clear cut attachment (6-8months)



4. Reciprocal relationship (18months)

Strange Situation: Mary Ainsworth

Assessment of attachment:


Taking the baby through 8 episodes, brief separations from and reunions with the caregiver

Attachment Security?

Secure Attachment:


-plays while mom is present


-not easily comforted by stranger



Avoidant Attachment:


-react to stranger the same way as mom



Resistant Attachment:


-anxious/clingy when moms present


- upset when mom leaves


-angry when mom returns



Disorganized Attachment:


-dazed facial expression


-cry out after being comforted


Odd, frozen postures

Factors affecting Attachment/Security?

Sensitive caregiving - Secure


Overstimulating - Avoidant


Inconsistent (smothering/neglectful) - Resistant


Maltreatment - Disorganized