PSYB20H3 Chapter 7: PSYB20 Ch. 7 - Psychosocial Development Birth to Age 3
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Babies share common patterns of development, each, from the start shows a relatively consistent and predictable way of responding to the environment. Each baby has his or her own unique temperament, such characteristic ways of feeling, thinking, and acting affect the way children respond to others and adapt to their world. Temperament is intertwined with social relationships; this combination is called psychosocial development. Emotions are subjective reactions to experience that are associated with physiological and behavioural changes (i. e. , fear is accompanied by a faster heartbeat). People differ in how often and how strongly they feel a particular emotion, in the kinds of events that may produce it, in the physical manifestations they show, and in how they act as a result. Emotional development follows a relatively standard developmental timeline, beginning in early infancy it is an orderly process; complex emotions unfold from simpler ones. Emotions also become increasingly social and include the self-conscious emotions, altruism and empathy.
