PSYC 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 18 Months, Cortisol, Psych
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Early emotions: high emotional responsiveness, pain and pleasure. Reactive pain and pleasure progress to complex social awareness. Emotional development: social smile (at 6 weeks) evoked by seeing human faces: laughter (3 to 4 months) often associated with curiosity. Sadness: indicates withdrawal and is accompanied by an increase production of cortisol. Stranger wariness: infant is uneasy or cautious around strangers (typical kid sitting on santa"s lap. ) Separation anxiety: infant shows acute expression of longing for caregiver when they"re not present. New toddler emotions: pride, shame, embarrassment, disgust, guilt. Emerges from family interactions, influenced by culture. By age 2 most toddlers display the entire spectrum of emotions and begin to regulate their reactions. Self-awareness: person"s realization that he or she is a distinct individual whose body, mind, and actions are separate from other people"s. Mirror recognition: class experiment (m. lewis and brooks 1978) at 18 months the infant begins to show self-awareness.
