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23 Cards in this Set
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What are emotions? |
-The personal significance of the situation -Physiological/Cognitive Components |
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Functionalist Approach to Emotions? |
-Preparation for appropriate action - establish, maintain or change relation in the environment -Energize behaviour aimed at attaining personal goals |
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Basic Emotions |
Happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, surprise, and interest |
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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 |
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Self Conscious Emotions? |
A higher-order set of feelings -guilt, shame, embarrassment -negative feelings about our behaviour |
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Emotional Self-Regulation? |
Ability to control expression of emotion: Suppressing response = Execute an adaptive response |
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Emotional Display Rules |
When, where and how it is appropriate to express emotions |
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Social Referencing? |
Relying on another’s persons emotional reaction to appraise an uncertain situation. |
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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 |
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Empathy? |
Feeling with another person |
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Sympathy |
Feeling of concern or sorrow for other |
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Temperament? |
Patterns of emotional responding |
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Reactivity? -temperament |
Quickness & Intensity -arousal, attention, action |
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Self Regulation- temperament |
Modifies reactivity |
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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 |
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Rothbart’s Model |
1. Activity Level 2. Attention span/persistence 3. Fearful distress 4. Irritable distress 5 positive effect 6. Effortful control |
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Goodness of Fit Model |
How temperament and environment can work together to produce favourable outcomes |
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Attachment? |
Infants strong emotional tie to caregiver |
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Bowlbys Ethological Theory |
The infants emotional tie to the caregiver as an evolved response that promotes survival |
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Development of Attachment |
1. Pre-Attachment (birth)
2. Attachment in the making (6weeks)
3. Clear cut attachment (6-8months)
4. Reciprocal relationship (18months) |
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Strange Situation: Mary Ainsworth |
Assessment of attachment: Taking the baby through 8 episodes, brief separations from and reunions with the caregiver |
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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 |
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Factors affecting Attachment/Security? |
Sensitive caregiving - Secure Overstimulating - Avoidant Inconsistent (smothering/neglectful) - Resistant Maltreatment - Disorganized |
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