1. Emotional Development
Emotions: complex set of behaviors produced in response to some external or internal event.
Self-regulation: ability to calm oneself when distressed or excited

2. Early Emotional Expressions
Smiling
Endogenous
Exogenous

3. Crying Basic Anger Pain Colic

4. Other Emotional Expressions
Anger
Fear
Separation Anxiety:
Stranger Anxiety:
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5. Perceiving Emotion
Imitating Emotions

6. Temperament Tendencies to respond in predictable ways to events.
Buss & Plomin, 1984
Emotionality, activity, sociability
Kagan, 1989
Behavioral Inhibition: tendency to be extremely shy and restrained in response to unfamiliar people and situations.

7. Thomas & Chess 9 Dimensions of Infant Behavior Typical Mood
Regularity of Biological Functions
Tendency to approach or withdraw
Intensity of emotional reactions
Adaptability
Activity level
Distractibility
Attention span
Threshold of responsiveness

8. Three Categories of Infant Temperament
Easy (40%)
Difficult (20%)
Slow-to-warm-up (15%)
Goodness of fit: extent to which child’s temperament is compatible with demands and expectations of social world to which child must adapt.

9. Other Aspects of Emotional Development
Social Referencing: looking to another individual for emotional cues in interpreting a strange/ambiguous event.
Video:
Complex emotions