An Implicit Understanding in a Culture of How and When

question 75

Multiple Choice

An implicit understanding in a culture of how and when an emotion should be expressed is:

• A)an emotional script
• B)social referencing
• C)an emotional display rule
• D)emotional intelligence

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Definitions:

Environmental Influences

Factors in an individual's surrounding environment that can affect their development, behaviors, health, and overall well-being.

Sensitive Period

In linguistic theory, the period from about 18 months to puberty when the brain is thought to be especially capable of learning language because of its plasticity.

Mean Length of Utterance

A measure used in language development research to calculate the average length of spoken statements or sentences, often used to assess linguistic progress in children.

Morphemes

The smallest units of meaning within a language, which can be a word or a part of a word such as a prefix or suffix.