PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Twin, Emotion Classification, Longitudinal Study
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The function of emotions: emotions such as fear, happiness, and disgust are all valuable because they help people adapt: keeping them away from danger and strengthening social relationships. They require much more sophisticated cognitive skills than basic emotions. Infants use simple strategies to regulate emotions such as fear: as children grow, they become better skilled t regulating their emotions. Children who do not regulate emotions well tend to have problems interacting with others. Hereditary and environmental contributions to temperament: the major theories agree that both heredity and environment contribute to temperament, for many dimensions of temperament, identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins. Stability of temperament: temperament is moderately stable in infancy, childhood, and adolescence, temperament in childhood is somewhat related to personality in adulthood. The relations are not very strong because temperament itself changes as children develop. In avoidant relationships, infants deal with the lack of trust by ignoring the mother.
