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Emotions Are Expressed More Strongly on Left Side of Face In my biopsychology class for the topic of emotions, one of the things that I learned is that the right hemisphere of brain processes emotions more than left. And I learned that this shows when the left side of face expresses emotions more strongly than the right (Right Hemisphere controls Left Side of Body). Digging further into the fact, I found a study that shows this. The study found random photos of faces, took the left side and right side and made individual face composites of each side. What the researchers did is cut the face picture in halves, take the right side, duplicate it and merged it together to create a full face. They did this for the left side as well. Then to determined whether the left or right side expresses emotions more strongly, the researchers had participants judge the composites of left vs right photos. As supported by the study, the left side of face, controlled by the right hemisphere, was judged to have stronger emotional expressions than the left. Study FaceBook Page for More!
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There are Four Types of Child Rearing Strategies: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, and Uninvolved “A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.” - Elizabeth Gaskell Studying the outcomes of parenting styles on child development has challenges because each child is different. Children such as siblings raised in the same environment have found to grow up to have different personalities while children raised in different settings can grow up to be like one another. There are a lot of individual variabilities and personal factors that affect the development of child regardless of parenting styles. However, psychologists have find some convincing links between parenting styles and outcome behaviors. Below, I’ve broken down the four parenting styles into level of acceptance and involvement, level of control, level of autonomy granting, childhood and adolescence outcomes. Parenting styles can be divided based on the level of acceptance and control the parent has for the child. Authoritative Acceptance and Involvement: Warm, responsive, attentive, patient, and sensitive to child’s needs Control: Makes reasonable demands for maturity and consistently enforces and explains them Autonomy Granting: Permits the child to make decisions in accord to readiness. Encourages the child to express thoughts, feelings, and desires. When parent and child disagree, engages in join decision making when possible. Childhood Outcome: Upbeat mood; high self-esteem, self-control, task persistance, and cooperativeness. Adolescence Outcome: High Self-esteem, social and moral maturity, and academic achievement. Authoritarian Acceptance and Involvement: Is cold and rejecting and frequently degrades the child Control: Makes many demands coercively, using force and punishment. Often engages in psychological control, withdrawing love and intruding on the child’s individuality Autonomy Granting: Makes decisions for the child. Rarely listens to the child’s point of view. Childhood Outcome: Anxious, withdrawn, and unhapy mood; hostile when frustrated; poor school performance Adolescence Outcome: Less well-adjusted than agemates reared with the authoritative style, but somewhat better school performance and less antisocial behavior than agemates reared with permissive or uninvolved styles. Permissive: Acceptance and Involvement: Is warm but overindulgent or inattentive. Control: Makes few or no demands Autonomy Granting: Permits the child to make many decisions before the child is ready Childhood: Impulsive, disobedient, and rebellious; demanding and dependent on adults; poor persistence at tasks and school performance. Adolescence: Poor self-control and school performance; defiance and antisocial behavior Uninvolved Acceptance and Involvement: Is emotionally detached and withdrawn. Control: Makes few or no demands. Autonomy Granting: Is indifferent to the child’s decision and making point of view. Childhood: Deficits in attachment, cognitive, play, and emotional and social skills. Adolescence: Poor emotional self-regulation; low academic self-esteem and school performance; antisocial behavior. In summary, research has shown that there are four types of parenting styles: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive and Uninvolved. Though there are much individual variability, research has demonstrated some consistent links in childhood and adolescence outcome behaviors raised by each parenting styles. Most notably, the authoritative parenting style is associated with the most positive outcomes. © 2011 by Psychology2010.com and Psych-facts.tumblr.com My References: Parenting Styles FaceBook Page for More!
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Infants Prefer Prosocial to Antisocial Others In a study, 9 to 12 months old watched a play where a plush animal hand puppet tries to open a clear plastic box. In one setting, another puppet comes in and helps the plush animal open the box (the prosocial individual). In another condition, a different puppet pushes the lid of the box downward (the antisocial or hinderer). Then the experimenters get the infants to look at or point to the individual puppet (antisocial or hinderer) that they preferred. Controlling for any potential confounds such as order effect, the order of which the antisocial or prosocial puppets were presented were random. The study finds that infants significantly prefer the prosocial over the antisocial puppet. They say that infants as young as 9 months can discriminate between prosocial and antisocial acts and choose who they want to associate themselves with.  © 2011 by Psych-facts.tumblr.com J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others, Cognitive Development, Volume 26, Issue 1, January-March 2011, Pages 30-39, ISSN 0885-2014, 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.09.001. Very Interesting Video to accompany this post: YouTube Babies and Learning FaceBook Page for More!
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The Right Ear is Better at Hearing Speech and the Left Ear is Better at Hearing Music “Spoken digits, words, CV syllables, and Morse code are recognized and recalled better by the right ear than the left; nonverbal sounds, such as melodies, tones, sonar beeps, and toilet flushes are processed better by the left ear than the right.” Source FaceBook Page for More Facts
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