PSYC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Heredity
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The development of emotions in childhood: emotions have several components, neural responses, physiological factors (heart rate, breathing, hormone levels, subjective feelings, cognitions or perceptions, the desire to take action. The emergence of emotion early in life: positive emotions, first sign an infant gives of positive emotions is a smile, social smiles: smiles directed at people, appear at around 3months, at around 7 months they start smiling more towards familiar people, at about 3 4months infants start to laugh, at 2 years old children start to clown around themselves, negative emotions, first negative emotions is general distress, by 4 months, wary of unfamiliar objects and event, 6 7 months fear begins to appear, fear of strangers lasts until about 2 years old, anger emerges around 4 8 months, self conscious emotions, start to appear at age 2, embarrassment, shame, guilt, pride, discontinuous view separate entity from other people us, continuous view:
