PSY 0310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psych, Startle Response, Display Rules
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Presentation: emotion and mental state talk in difference social context predicts empathic helping in toddlers. Parents and toddlers communicate about emotions through play. Measured child"s helping behavior with respect to goal directed actions. Doesn"t require complex understanding of recipient emotional mental state (picking up something accidentally dropped) Empathic helping task: requires child to read and understand the experimenters international state to comprehend needs and help alleviate distress. Results: parents of 30 month old children used more mental terms than parents of 18 month olds. Parents produced more emotion and mental states while reading than joint play with toys. Parents used higher proportion of emst when talking to girls than boys. Chapter 10: emotional development and adolescent mental health: Emotions: combination of physiological and cognitive responses to thoughts or experiences: Desire to take action (escape, approach, etc) Basic emotion states evolved neurological and biological systems to adapt to surroundings. We are born being able to experience and express.
