Week 10: Emotional Development

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

a subjective reactions to an important event that involves
-physical and psycholigcal change
-readiness to act
-appraisal of the event

Question 2

Emotion helps us…

Answer 2

-focus attention and influence effort
-organize recall and memory
-build interpersonal relationships

Question 3

Basic emotions

Answer 3

interest, joy, sadness, anger, disgust, fear

Question 4

Social emotions emerge during the toddlers years.. why?

Answer 4

These emotions emerge later because they require at least four cognitive abilities in children
—Awareness that they are a separate self from their attachment figures
—Awareness that rules exist
—Ability to evaluate their self against those rules
–Ability to judge whether they cause something

Question 5

Social emotions 15-24 months

Answer 5

envy and embarassment

Question 6

Social emotions 30-36 months

Answer 6

shame, guilt, and pride

Question 7

Emotion regulation

Answer 7

ability to control one’s emotions

Question 8

What can regulate

Answer 8

intensity of emotions and duration of emotions

Question 9

What can we not regulate

Answer 9

initial emotional response

Question 10

What can adults do to support emotional regulation

Answer 10

-provide guiding and scaffolding
–validating emotions
–modeling emotion regulation
–talking about emotions

Question 11

Problem focused

Answer 11

trying to change the situations; action oriented
-use when situation is more stressful

Question 12

Emotion focused

Answer 12

trying to change the emotion
-use when situation is less stressful

Question 13

Reappraisal

Answer 13

often the best strategy when you can’t change the situation

Question 14

Depression symptoms

Answer 14

inability to concentrate, feelings of hopelessness, weight changes, sleep problems

Question 15

Risk factors for depression

Answer 15

twice as common in adolescence
-median age onset is 11
-more common with girls

Question 16

Affective perspective taking

Answer 16

correctly perceiving another person’s emotions

Question 17

Empathy

Answer 17

sharing in the other’s emotions; the first step of affective perspectove taking

Question 18

sympathy

Answer 18

feeling concern for others feelings

Question 19

Personal distress

Answer 19

negative emotional reaction to someone else’s distress where learners focus on their own feelings

Question 20

Empathic distress

Answer 20

feeling distressed along with another person

Question 21

Emotional contagion

Answer 21

one’s emotion can spread out and influence others

Question 22

Social referencing

Answer 22

reading another person’s emotional expression to decide how you should act/respond
-primary in ambigous situations

Question 23

Mirror neurons

Answer 23

neurons respond the same way when oyu laugh or you see someone laugh

Question 24

Visual cliff experiment

Answer 24

reading emotional signal from parent is it is ok to continue

Question 25

Ages 0-2

Answer 25

infants do have a few coping strategies (appareing to sleep, sucking)
-need guided self regulation; often fussy

Question 26

Ages 3-5

Answer 26

general negativity levels decrease
-begin to understand that strategies help but still choose poor strategies quite often

Question 27

Ages 6-12

Answer 27

need less social support for dealing with emotions
-have more coping startgies and can better select from them
-better emotional dissemblance

Question 28

Adolescents

Answer 28

use more diverse stratgies for managing emotions (reframing problems, talk to calm, considering consequenes)
-unfortunatly teens may use alcohol, drugs, and food to cope

Question 29

Emotional competence

Answer 29

the understanding, expressions and regulation of emotions

Question 30

Emotional competence characteristics

Answer 30

–Identifying, expressing, and managing emotions
–Controlling impulses and delaying gratification
–Understanding perspectives of others
–Knowing the difference between feelings and actions