PS275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Carroll Izard, Emotion Classification, Twin
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It"s expected that the opposite is true for younger children. Emotions and early social development: baby"s display of emotion serve a communicative function that is likely to affect the behaviour of caregivers. Temperament and development: temperament a person"s characteristic modes of responding emotionally and behaviourally to environmental events, including such attributes as activity level, irritability, fearfulness, and sociability. Individual differences in infants temperament: fearful distress. Irritable distress: positive affect, activity level, attention span/persistence, rhythmicity, variations on some temperamental dimensions take some time to appear and are influenced by biological maturation and experience. Important to consider both heredity and environmental influences in combination when studying temperament. Inventory of children"s individual differences (icid: a 144-item measure closely aligned with the big five adult personality measures. Infants easily upset by novelty show greater electrical activity in the right cerebral hemisphere than in left.
