Developmental psychologyChapter 6Emotional development and attachment relationshipsIntroductionEmotional development underlies many other aspects of development, and has serious implications for how we conduct research with children. Children’s emotional development can broadly be divided into three areas.Young children’s ability to recognize different facial expressions and to convey their own emotions.Children’s understanding of emotions.Children’s ability to regulate their emotions.Expressing and recognizing emotional expressionsAre expressions of emotions innate?Cross-cultural evidenceThere is good evidence for the universality of human facial expressions of emotion.Understanding of how emotions are conveyed through facial expressions is universal, but does not necessarily mean that understanding emotional expressions is innate.Expressions of emotion in infancyInfants from birth spontaneously display a wide repertoire of emotions though their facial expressions.Basic emotions: happiness, interest, surprise, disgust, sadness, distress, anger, fear.Complex emotions: pride, shyness, jealousy, guilt, shame, embarrassment.Adults are skillful in accurately reading infants’ expressions.However, adults are less accurate in discriminating infant’s negative facial expressions indicative of fear, anger, sadness or disgust. This appears not to be due to a lack of subtlety in young infants’ expression, but to the fact that the facial expressions arising from these different emotions are quite similar.There is a biological basis for infant’s emotional facial expressions.Multiple facial cues are used to signal emotion and the ability to convey...

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An Introduction to Developmental psychology by A. Slater and G. Bremner (third edition) - a summary

An Introduction to Developmental psychology by A. Slater and G. Bremner (third edition) - a summary

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This bundle contains a summary of the book An Introduction to Developmental psychology by A. Slater and G. Bremner (third edition). The book is about development from fetus to elderly. Only the chapters needed in the course 'Developmental psychology' in the first year of psychology at the Uva are present.