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Cognitive and emotional development. Fahad Alosaimi MBBS, SSC-Psych Consultation liaison psychiatrist King Saud University. Learning objectives. Upon completion of this event, attendees will have:
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Cognitive and emotional development Fahad Alosaimi MBBS, SSC-Psych Consultation liaison psychiatrist King Saud University
Learning objectives Upon completion of this event, attendees will have: • Enhanced knowledge & understanding of some important theories pertaining to cognitive and emotional development. • Awareness of the connection between cognition, emotions and behaviours. • Skills to examine the stages of cognitive and emotional development. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Outlines of the talk • Cognitive Schemas • Cognitive development • Moral reasoning • Different aspects of emotion • Inappropriate emotion • The dynamics of emotions • Anger Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive psychology • Thoughts: a way of processing information which are related to a particular time , person or object. • Thinking: The mental manipulation of information of internal representations of objects and situations ( Wade and Tavis, 1993) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive Schemas (Piaget) • Schemas : a cognitive map for processing information. • Piaget : a process of formations or reformulations of schemas include: • Assimilations: the act of taking in a new information. • Accommodation: The act of making room to allow for new information. • Adaptation : the whole process of assimilations and accommodation...equilibrium between them. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive Schemas (Piaget) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive psychology • Irrational thinking ,e.g. doctors have easy life. ..Doctors have difficult life... • Models of life positions (Ok-ness concept) ( truly think of self & others), ( Thomas Harris, 1973) : • OK means good, not OK means either bad or feeling inferior. • Four life positions: I’m not OK- you are OK (I am inferior to others) I’m not OK- you are not OK (every one is bad I ‘m OK- you are not OK (I am superior to others) I’m OK- you are OK( there is goodness in everyone) Unconsc. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive development (Piaget) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Cognitive development (Piaget) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Piaget and moral reasoning • Moral realism: obligation and values are determined by law or the order itself, independent of the intentions and relationships. • Moral realism lead to objective responsibilities. • Children believe if they violate some moral rules they will be punished . • Moral reasoning will start through the process of socialization. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Kohlberg & moral reasoning Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Kohlberg & moral reasoning Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Reason for obedience and value imposed on human life( Kohler, 1984) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Emotion & behaviour Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Emotion • Body without emotion is like a body without a heart. • Emotion help to appreciate love, pain and grief. • Emotion is the essence of all animal communications ( verbal & non verbal). • Contributes to the preservation of the moral rules of the society. E.G . Patents may say to their child “you should feel bad for the way you behave” Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Physiological aspects of emtotion • Arousal of limbic system lead to changes in HR, sweating and BP. • According to Delgado(1971), electrical stimulation of the rat brain resulted in two types of emotional responses: 1) false rage( pseudorage): vocal display of verbal aggression not directed at other rates, anterior hypothalamus 2) true rage: vocal display of verbal aggression to ward off the threatening danger , lateral hypothalamus. • Delgado(1971), stimulation of the right amygdala may produce a “fit of rage” in psych patient who was playing.
Expressive aspects of emotion Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Experiential aspect of emotion • Crucial to daily functioning and responsible for motivating action. • People behaviour is related mostly to mixed emotions Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Have you always expressed your true feelings? • Inappropriate emotion: one which is not warranted by the evoking object or situation. • Racket feeling: put the true feeling on hold & take on a substitute feeling. • May be unconscious. • Learned from parents and significant others: It is better not to cry!....Do not be upset!...Do not let them know how you feel!...pretend it does not hurt!..etc. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
The dynamics of emotion (Plutchik,1994) Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Anger is a natural emotion • Anger is an arousal plus thoughts of attacking. • is a strong feeling of annoyance. • Anger bouts have: • antecedents • behaviour • consequences. • Common antecedents of anger : • problems with relationship, • interaction with strangers, • injustice • inconveniences. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Anger • Socialisation may lead to regard anger as a weakness . • When people get angry , they tend to function purely from an emotional dimension. • may behave from mild irritation to destruction. • Anger is an intrapersonal event but mostly expressed in an overt behaviour. Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Anger May adaptive if proper channel like boxing • Expression of anger: • Outward , e.g. in destructive behaviour. • Inward, e.g. Depression or suicide. • Repressed or suppressed( on hold) • Theories of anger: • Psychoanalysis: instinct of aggression is aroused through frustration of the id, & externalized to protect individual from self-harm. • Frustration-aggression hypothesis ( dollard,1939). • Social learning theory( bandura,1973):aggression is a learned behaviour, through reinforcement, direct observation and instruction Maladaptive !! Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Functions of anger & aggression • Ventilation of anger. • Defence against anxiety “to deal with their anxieties in an attempt to protect themselves”. • Controlling function “ let them know who is the boss” • Protective function “ to warn the enemy that I am not an easy prey” Dr.Fahad Alosaimi
Thank you Dr.Fahad Alosaimi