1. The function of emotions

• Cognitive
• Social
• Physical
• Self-awareness

1.1. Development of emotional expression

• Basic emotions

Happiness

Social smiles

Anger & sadness

Fear

Stranger Wariness (making strange)

• Complex emotions

Self-conscious emotions

1.2. Emotional Self-regulation

• Display rules

1.3. Social referencing

1.4. The special case of Psychopaths

2. Temperament

The stable individual differences in quality and intensity of emotional reaction, activity level, attention, and emotional selfregulation

2.1. Temperamental types

• Easy
• Difficult
• Slow to warm up

2.2. Measuring temperament

2.3. Stability

2.3. Heredity and environment

• Goodness-of-fit

3. Attachment

3.1. Bowlby's ethological theory of attachment

• Strange situation

3.2. Types of attachment

• Secure
• Avoidant
• Resistant
• Disorganized/Disoriented

3.3. Cultural differences

3.4. Factors determining quality of attachment

• maternal deprivation
• quality of care
• infant characteristics
• family circumstances
• multiple attachments

3.5. Attachment and social change: Working mothers and child care

4. Knowing about the self

4.1. Self-awareness

• Categorical self
• Inner self
• Self-concept
• Generalized other
• Adolescent egocentrism

4.2. Self-esteem

4.2.1. Influences

• Culture/Society
• Child-rearing practices

4.2.1. Achievement related attributions

4.3. Understanding others