PSY 230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Attention Span, Emotion Classification, Individualism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 230
• Professor: Christine Delgado

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Child developmental exam 4 study guide (red titles purple in class black new information brown -subtitle) Basic emotions are experienced by people world wide and each consists of three elements: a subjective feeling, a physiological change, and overt a behavior. Social smiles first appear: infants smile when they see another person. At about 6 months, infants become wary in the presence of an unfamiliar adult, a reaction known as stranger wariness. Sometimes known as the self-conscious emotions, the(cid:455) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e feeli(cid:374)g s of su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess (cid:449)he(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s sta(cid:374)da(cid:396)ds o(cid:396) e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s a(cid:396)e (cid:373)et a(cid:374)d feeli(cid:374)gs of failu(cid:396)e (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t. Infants in an unfamiliar or ambiguous environment often look at their mother of rather, as if searching for cues to help them interpret the situation, a phenomenon known as social referencing. As children develop, they also begin to learn display rules, culturally specific standards for appropriate expressions of emotion in a particular setting or with a particular person or persons.