Midterm 2 - Psych 351 Week 6 Lec 1

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What is emotion socialization?

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Any behavior from a parent to a child that increases or decreases the likelihood that that child will have a similar response in the future

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What is parental meta emotion philosophy?

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an organised set of feelings or thoughts about one's own emotions and about one's childrens emotions

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the types of meta emotion phisolophy

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Dismissing meta-emotion philosophy (parent sees emotions as harmful and tries to dismiss them)

emotion coaching meta emotion philosophy

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Can people who are not parents also have a meta emotion philosophy?

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yes

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Which is the best type of parental meta emotion philosophy?

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emotion-coaching meta emotion philosophy

it is associated with higher emotional intelligence and adjustment in the child

Front 6

Draw the graph for emotion socialization in the family

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get paterp pen and goo

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Gender differences:

parental use of emotional words when talking about past events in convos

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more commonly done for girls

and also a greater variety of emotional words used with daughters

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parental reinforcement of the display of sadness:

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more common in girls

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parental reinforcement of the display of anger:

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more common in boys

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parental encouragement of emotion regulation strategies:

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girls are encouraged to use relationship-oriented strategies to solve problems

boys are encouraged to use instrumental strategies to solve problems

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differences of mothers and fathers in interacting with their kids:

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mothers: verbal, teaching, predictable, less extreme in their responses

fathers: physical, less predictable, and try to increase child's arousal

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difference between mothers and fathers in how they respond to child's emotional expression:

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mothers: they try to regulate their child's emotional expression less (less likely to control), and if they do try to regulate it they are not as effective

fathers: they try to regulate it more (more likely to control), and they are also more effective at regulating it

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Parental differences in how they respond to their children's diff emotions

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mothers do not respond differently to girls and boys expressions of sadness and anger

fathers respond more to a girl's sadness than to a boy's

and more to a boy's anger than to a girl's

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What is positive reinforcement?

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the presentation of a stimulus increases the likelihood that the behaviour will happen again

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negative reinforcement

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the removal of a negative stimulus increases the likelihood that the behaviour will happen again

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Punishment

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any action that decreases or surpresses a behaviour

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Who created the coersion theory

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Gerald Patterson

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What does the parent-child coercive cycle do?

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- it increases the child's negative behaviour

- the parent losses control

(Worsen children’s behaviour (aggression)– Loss of parental control)

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What does a child driven coercive cycle look like?

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child makes demand - parent refuses - child has a tamper tantrum - parent gives in - child quiets down - this reinforces the parent's capitulation

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What does a parent driven coercive cycle look like?

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Parent makes a demand - child refuses - parent increases the demand - child argues - parent backs off - child's arguing is reinforced

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THe coecive cycle is __

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bidirectional

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how can you break the parent directed reinforcement cycle?

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make demand - the child refuses - give a punishment

next time: make demand - the child accepts - give positive reinforcement

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for the child driven coercive cycle:

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- remove the reinforcer, step away from the situation, give a counter offer and negotiate

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What other interactioncharacteristics are related to childaggression/externalizing problems?

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parents reaction to a child's emotions shapes their emotional experiences

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what does good supportive regulation look like?

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reframing (the child's perspective to be more positive), validating, accepting

down regulate negative emotions

up regulate positive emotions

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the timing of supportive regulation matters!!

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true

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Summarize the study about comparing mothers who have aggressive kids and mothers who have kids that are typically developing

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overall, both groups showed the same amount of positive, and negative emotions and of supportive regulation

however mothers of aggressive kids exhibited supportive regulation at times that were incongruent with the child's negative reactions

(the mothers of developing kids displayed contingent responses to the child's ngetaive emootions)

also aggressive children were less likely to transition out of negative emotional states in response to the mother's supportive regulation, in comparison to typically developing children

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Summary of this week:

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Many aspects of the family environmentare related to how emotions are socialized

Emotion socialization is an importantfactor in children’s healthy social andemotional development

Emotion socialization is not aunidirectional process