Emotional Development in Infants & Children: Expressing, Recognizing & Regulating Emotions, Slides of Human Development

An outline of emotional development, focusing on identifying emotions in infants and children, expressing emotions, regulating emotions, and understanding emotions. It includes information on parents' interpretations of newborns' emotions, scientific research on infant emotions, and the development of emotional expression and regulation in infancy and toddlerhood.

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Emotional Development
Expressing, Recognizing, Understanding, and
Regulating Emotions
Emotional Development: Outline of
Topic
Identifying Emotions in infants and children
Expressing emotions
Regulating emotions
Understanding emotions
Identifying Emotions in Infants & Children
What Are Emotions?
Subjective reactions
Cognitive, physiological, and
behavioral components
Identifying Emotions in Infants & Children
Parents interpret a wide range of emotions in
newborns
These interpretations might be accurate, or they
might not be
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Emotional Development

Expressing, Recognizing, Understanding, and

Regulating Emotions

Emotional Development: Outline of

Topic

• Identifying Emotions in infants and children

• Expressing emotions

• Regulating emotions

• Understanding emotions

Identifying Emotions in Infants & Children

• What Are Emotions?

  • Subjective reactions
  • Cognitive, physiological, and behavioral components

Identifying Emotions in Infants & Children

• Parents interpret a wide range of emotions in

newborns

  • These interpretations might be accurate, or they might not be

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Identifying Emotions in Infants & Children

Psychologists study infant emotions scientifically

  • Researchers created

elaborate coding systems

to objectively identify

babies’ facial expressions

Coding Adult Facial Expressions

  • Ekman’s 6 basic (primary) emotions

Anger, fear, disgust, surprise, joy, sadness

 Distinct facial

expression

 Universal

 Evolutionarily

adaptive

Coding Emotion Expressions Across

Cultures

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Expressing Emotions in Toddlerhood

• Self-Conscious Emotions

  • Embarrassment, pride, guilt, & shame (18-24 months)
  • By end of 2nd^ year: Sense of ‘self’ is developed
  • Begin to understand what adults expect of them

• Expressions of SC Emotions

  • Lowered eyes, hanging head, blushing, hiding face in hands

Regulating Emotion

• Emotional self-regulation is a process of

changing several aspects of emotions:

  • Internal feeling states
  • Emotion-related cognitions
  • Physiological processes
  • Behavior

Regulating Emotion

• Caregiver regulation

  • Limit exposure to stimulation
  • Soothe or distract the baby

• Early Self-regulation Behaviors

  • Gaze aversion
  • Engage in repetitive self soothing behaviors
  • Go to sleep

Regulating Emotion

• Preschoolers’ self-regulation

  • Play by themselves
  • Less likely to seek comfort
  • Talk about feelings rather then simply venting
  • Negotiate ways to resolve situations Happens because of:
    1. Brain maturation
    2. Changes in parents’ expectations

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Regulating Emotion

• School-aged children’s self-regulation

  • Use cognitive strategies to control emotion (age 8)
  • Select appropriate strategies
  • Use appropriate display rules

Regulating Emotion

• Adolescent Emotionality

  • Are they more emotional??
  • What’s happening in the brain?
  • No worries!
    • Emotion regulation
      • Reappraisal

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