PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Joint Attention, Operant Conditioning, Emotional Contagion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Kathleen Bloom

Document Summary

Emotional and social development in infancy and toddlerhood. They are an aspect of the system that develops, becoming more varied and complex as children reorganize their behaviour to attain new goals. Cross-cultural evidence reveals that people around the world associate photographs of different facial expressions with emotions in the same way. Basic emotions: happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, and disgust are universal in humans and other primates and have a long evolutionary history of promoting survival. Ba(cid:271)ies" earliest e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al life (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of little (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) t(cid:449)o glo(cid:271)al arousal states: attra(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to pleasant stimulation and withdrawal from unpleasant stimulation. Children coordinate separate skills into more effective, emotionally expressive systems as the (cid:272)e(cid:374)tral (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) de(cid:448)elops a(cid:374)d the (cid:272)hild"s goals a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge. Sensitive, contingent caregiver communication, in which parents selectively mirror aspects of the (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)"s diffuse e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, helps i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)t e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)s that more closely resemble those of adults.