Readings

• Embarrassment is the simplest conscious emotion and emerges when the child recognize themselves in a mirror
• Parental meta-emotion philosophy: Organized set of feelings/thoughts that parents have about their own emotions and then ones of their children.
• Children learn about emotional display rules(culturally defined rules about what emotions are appropriate to display) at about 7 months.
• Components of effective regulation of emotions involves the ability to: suppress, maintain and intensify
• At the age of 3, children are bad at identifying and labeling emotional expressions posed by people.
• 6 dimensions of infant temperament: fearful distress, irritable distress, positive affect, activity level, attention span/persistence and rhythmicity
• Infant temperament reflects 2 kinds of negative emotions: fear and irritability
• Behavioural inhibition: a temperamental tendency to withdraw from unfamiliar people/situations. Children can reflect this when caregivers are overprotective and are insensitive to them
• 3 temperament profiles for jits are: Easy(40%), difficult(10%) and slow to warm up(15%).
• Synchronized routines are harmonious interactions between two participants in which responses are adjusted to the partners feelings/behaviours
• Characteristics of imprinting: automatic, has a critical period and is irreversible
• Amae: a japanese concept that reefer's to an infant's feeling of total dependence on their mother.
• Temperament hypothesis: Kagan's view that the strange situation measures a child's temperament rather than the quality of their attachments