Unit 3

Question 1

Emotions

Answer 1

responses to the environment or situations

Question 2

Primary emotions

Answer 2

present in early life and nonhuman animals, universal
- main ones: joy, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear
- thought to be universal and innate

Question 3

Self-conscious emotions

Answer 3

relate to ones sense of self, emerge around 1.5 - 2 years
(guilt, shame pride, jealousy)

Question 4

Emotion regulation

Answer 4

• newborns almost totally reliant on others to soothe their emotions
• individual difference in emotion regulation
• difficulty regulating negative emotions increase risk for difficult relationships with others, lower executive functioning, and difficulty in school

Question 5

Emotion coaching

Answer 5

assisting children in emotion coping, caregivers can be in-tune with children’s emotional states and talk bout emotions/experiences
- more positive emotional, behavioral, and social outcomes

Question 6

Emotion dismissing

Answer 6

attempts to minimize negative emotions, caregivers may deny, dismiss, or try to change negative emotions

Question 7

Adolescent emotions

Answer 7

amygdala matures before prefrontal cortex

Question 8

Adulthood/aging emotions

Answer 8

• with increasing age, emotions tend to mellow and people are more positive
  -adults focus more on fulfilling emotional needs and less on acquiring knowledge

Question 9

Socioemotional selectivity theory

Answer 9

with increasing age, adults maximize positive emotions by being more selective in their relationships and activities