PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mental Model, John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth
2 Oct 2017
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Chapter 7: social & emotional development in infants & toddlers. Happiness, anger, and surprise, along with fear, disgust, and sadness, are considered basic emotions. People worldwide experience these emotions, and each basic emotion consists of 3 elements; a subjective feeling, a physiological change, and an overt behavior. Babies distinctive facial expressions do not necessarily mean the infants are actually experiencing these emotions. Facial expressions are only one component of emotion the behavioral manifestation. Emotion also involves physiological responses and subjective feelings. Social smiles- smiling in response to seeing another human face. During the first few weeks after birth, infants begin to smile, but this kind of smiling seems to be related to internal physiological states: an infant might smile after feeding or while asleep, for example. At about 2 months, infants start to make social smiles when they see another human face. Smiling and cooing seem to be the infant"s way of expressing pleasure at seeing another person.
