PSYC 289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gender Role, Family Values
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Infant crying when another infant starts to cry. Preschoolers: more reflective level of empathy: develop cognitively more and more language abilities, can understand that they are crying and feeling sad. Children with more trouble with regulation have trouble displaying empathy: parenting. Parents who can model empathy have kids who display higher levels of empathy. Secure attachment also leads to higher levels of empathy: modeling. Emotional self-regulation: strategies we use to adjust our emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity. By 4-6 months: simple strategies: trying to control their emotion by disengaging and looking away. Caregivers help infants learn how to regulate emotions: temperament also predicts later emotional regulation (difficult temperament, difficult emotional regulation) By 2 years of age: use language to define their feelings: caregivers help by teaching children to use language to regulate emotions. Play: a pleasurable activity that is engaged in for its own sake: do it just because it is fun.
