PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: 18 Months, Ambivalence, Autobiographical Memory
8 Dec 2015
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Topic 9: socio-emotional development: understanding of the self and. Module 10. 1 in chapter 10 & chapter 11. Modern theories emphasize the functional value of emotion. Functional approach: emotions are useful because they help people adapt to their, e. g. Fear; its adaptive because it organizes your behaviour environment around an important goal, avoiding danger. Three emotions from the vignette joy, anger and surprise are all considered basic emotions (same with interest, disgust, distress, sadness, and fear) Basic emotions are experienced by people world-wide, and each consists of three elements: a subjective feeling, a physiological change, and overt behaviour. Infants tend to be less fearful of strangers when the environment is familiar, more fearful when it is not presence of an unfamiliar adult number of factors: Experienced by people worldwide and include a subjective feeling, a physiological response, and an overt behaviour. Responses to meeting or failing to meet expectations or standards.
