PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.1: Joint Attention, Dwarfism, Cortisol
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Emotions: rapid appraisal of the personal significance of a situation which prepares you for action. Expresses readiness to establish, maintain or change your relation to the environment on a matter important to you. Functionalist approach to emotion: emphasize that the broad function of emotions is to energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals. Emotional rxns can lead to learning that is essential for survival. High anxiety impairs thinking by diverting attention from cognitive processing to task irrelevant threatening stimuli and worrisome thoughts. Highly upset focus more attention on threat tend to remember event better. Interwoven outcomes of mastery and energizing force for continued involvement and learning. Emotional signals of children can affect behavior of others. Emotion rxns of others regulate children"s social behavior. By 3 m/o, caregiver and infant have a communication system that allows response to each other"s cues.
