PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychopathology, Positive Affectivity, Emotional Expression
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Provides strong and informative cues about the infant"s current state. Reflects stable, biologically-based differences in behavior that affect the child"s interaction with their social and physical environment. Identification of infants behavior and emotional states. Fear and anger - 3 to 4 months. Mothers may socialize their infants" expressive styles from the early months of life. Secondary emotions increase as infant becomes self-aware. Use of others" emotional expressions to interpret ambiguous events (e. g. , visual cliff experiment) Biologically based source of individual differences in behavioral functioning. Affected by the interaction between innate predispositions and experience. Thomas and chess (1989) identify three types of temperament. Irregular schedule, slow at accept and adapt to change, responds negatively. Somewhat irregular schedule, respond negatively to new experiences, but adapt slowly after repeated exposure. The strong and enduring affectional ties that bind a person to his or her most intimate companions. Environment of evolutionary adaptedness survival depended on close relationships with protective adults.
