Ch. 8 Objectives

646- Child Psychology

Ch. 8 Objectives Pgs. 204-212

Answer the following questions in your notebook using bullet-point format.

1.     Define personality, psychosocial development, and emotions

2.     How does culture influence displays of emotions? (Asian vs. American culture)

3.     What are the 1st signs of emotions?

4.     Explain the progression of smiling and laughter. Social smiling? Anticipatory smiling?

5.     Explain how emotional development is an orderly process.

6.     Emotions at birth?

7.     What are the self-conscious emotions and when do they develop?

8.     Define self-awareness.

9.     What are the self-evaluative emotions and when do they develop?

10.   Define altruistic behavior.

11.  What is empathy? How can it be seen in early infancy?

12.  What are mirror neurons?

13.  How does empathy depend on social cognition?

14.  What does Piaget say about egocentrism and the development of social cognition?

15.  Define temperament.

16.  What were the goals and set-up of the New York Longitudinal Study (Thomas and Chess)?

17.  Explain the three categories in which children were classified.

18.  How stable is temperament?

19.  Explain the goodness of fit model.

20.  What are the conclusions of the Kagan study from the text about shyness and boldness?