CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Infants (birth to 24 months of age) can express a wide range of basic emotions including: discomfort, pleasure, anger, fear, sadness and excitement. As we learned in Chapter 6, infants are developing attachments to primary caregivers and may show some anxiety when separated from the important adults in their lives.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are four kinds of basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and anger, which are differentially associated with three core affects: reward (happiness), punishment (sadness), and stress (fear and anger).

Detailed explanation-3: -At birth the infant has only the most elementary emotional life, but by 10 months infants display the full range of what are considered the basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise and fear.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Frustration is not one of the four basic emotions. This makes answer choice “b” the correct answer choice. There are four basic human emotions that are: anger, fear, happiness and sadness.