Emotional development Timeline Flashcards
Happiness Timeline
From birth: Smiles are reflexive and evoked by biological states.
2-3mo: Social smiles emerge (smile at a person - indication that the baby is more aware of the world around him).
5mo: Infant’s first laugh. Reason of laughing evolves with cognitive development.
Anger Timeline
4mo: Infants begin to express anger.
24mo: Peak in tendency to react with anger - terrible twos.
Fear Timeline
7mo: Infants begin to express fear.
8mo: Fear of strangers and separation anxiety emerge.
~15mo: Separation anxiety declines.
What scares children changes with cognitive development. Give the different ages with the different fears.
3-5yo: Fear imaginary creatures. Preoperational stage (can imagine abstract thoughts now).
7+yo: Fears related to everyday situations. Concrete operational stage.
When does Self-conscious emotions emerge?
2yo.
Self-Conscious Emotions emerge once kids have an explicit sense of self separate from other people. At what age do children have this sense of self?
18mo
At what age expressions of guilt and shame can be distinguished because of how children react to situation?
2yo
Understanding Emotions Timeline
3mo: Can distinguish facial expressions of happiness, surprise, and anger.
7mo: Can distinguish expressions of fear and sadness.
At what age can children label emotions?
3yo: Rudimentary ability to identify and label emotions in others and self.
Understanding Mixed Emotions Timeline (+facial expressions don’t math feelings)
3yo: Don’t understand this.
5yo:Understand that people can experience more than one emotion at a time. + Begin to understand that a person’s facial expressions do not necessarily match what they’re really feeling.
Emotion Regulation Timeline
5mo: Infant show rudimentary emotion regulation skills: Self comforting/distraction.
6-8yo: Rely on cognitive strategies and problem-solving.
When do Surprise, Sadness, and Disgust appear?
All appear in the first year
