Describe the development of primary emotions from one of these early emotions: distress, interest or pleasure
What will be an ideal response?
In the first weeks of life babies show pleasure by smiling after feeding or being stroked. By two or three months, they show a social smile, a smile in response to social interaction. They show more intense emotions of happiness over the first year and their smiles change in response to different stimuli.
Anger begins as distress, by 4 months about half of infants are able to show recognizable signals of anger, and by 7 months nearly all do. Fear and sadness also differentiate from distress.
Interest develops into surprise.
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A. "Do you think that you would have felt like crying?" B. "Why do you say you should be able to win everyone's love and approval?" C. "What does it feel like in your gut when you think of that?" D. "Why should your failure to get the promotion you wanted mean that you are worthless?"
A researcher wishes to investigate the length of the sleep-wake cycle that is regulated by a subject's biological clock. The researcher can do this by:
A. letting the subject eat and sleep whenever he or she feels like it B. asking the subject to estimate the time at certain intervals without the use of a clock C. removing all cues to time and measuring when the subject sleeps and wakes D. analyzing the cycle produced by brain-wave patterns
Kelly's Role Construct Repertory Test is also known as the:
a. Core Construct test b. Peripheral Construct test c. Rep test d. Preemptive Construct test
During a break from his job as a waiter, Barnardo begins to read Hamlet and is so engrossed in the play that he fails to notice the clattering of dishes all around him. This is an example of _______________
A) feature detection B) absolute threshold C) bottom-up processing D) selective attention