1. Learning Chpt 10 Goals
1. Discuss basic aspects of emotion.
• How is emotion defined?
• What are some developmental changes in the regulation of emotion?
• What constitutes emotional competence, according to Saarni?
2. Describe the development of emotion through the life span.
• How does emotion develop in infancy?
• What characterizes emotional development in early childhood?
• What changes take place in emotion during middle and late childhood?
• How does emotion change in adolescence?
• What are some key aspects of emotional development in adulthood?
3. Characterize variations in temperament and their significance.
• How can temperament be described and classified?
• How is temperament influenced by biological foundations and experience?
• What is goodness of fit?
• What are some positive parenting strategies for dealing with a child’s temperament?
4. Explain attachment and its development.
• What is attachment?
• How does attachment develop in infancy and childhood?
• How are caregiving styles related to attachment?
• How is child care related to children’s development?
• How does attachment develop in adolescence?
• What is the nature of dating and romantic relationships in adolescence?
• What are attachment and love like across the adulthood years?
Key Terms
Affectionate love Insecure-avoidant babies Separation protest
Anger cry Insecure-disorganized babies Slow-to-warm-up child
Anxious attachment style Insecure-resistant babies Social referencing
Attachment Pain cry Social smile
Avoidant attachment style Preoccupied-ambivalent Socioemotional selectivity theory
attachment
Basic cry Primary emotions Strange situation
Difficult child Reflexive smile Stranger anxiety
Dismissing-avoidant attachment Romantic love Temperament
Easy child Secure attachment style Triangular Theory of Love
Emotion Securely attached babies Unresolved-disorganized
attachment
Goodness-of-fit Self-conscious emotions
Key People
Mary Ainsworth Jerome Kagan Carolyn Saarni
Ellen Berscheid Sheila Kammerman Phillip Shaver

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