PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ambivalence, Longitudinal Study, Major Depressive Disorder
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Psy302, secion 011 (dr. ma) |child development | march 13, 2015| lecture 7. Interest: distress, disgust, contentment: anger, sadness, joy, surprise, fear largely cross culturally shared. Contentment, interest, & non-social smiles - babies who smile not in response to people, but things that are saisfying to them. > the babies facial expression may not match to the situaion causing a diicult ime to read for us this called generalized distress. By 3 months: social smiles (irst emerge as early as 6 to 7 weeks of age) -> parents can easily read their children"s emoions. -> if the baby has a sort of delay (abuse, auism), their showing of physical expressions may be subdued (sill-face paradigm) If the baby doesn"t react to the sill-face paradigm, it could be an indicaion of mental delay, developmental disorders or abuse. The babies feel distressed when their mother shows them the sill face, therefore they are more vocalized and avoid eye contact.
