EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -Babies express their emotions through their posture, voice and facial expressions from birth. These attitudes help their carers adapt their behaviour to the baby’s emotional state. A baby’s tears, for example, may be an expression of his or her distress and primary needs (to be fed or changed or to lie down).

Detailed explanation-3: -Around month 7, babies start to develop emotions like fear and anger. From 8-11 months, babies are more sensitive to approval/disapproval and separation anxiety is likely to peak. By 12 months, babies develop expressive language and can begin to label emotions.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -“Because of what seem to be biologically based differences, boys start out life more emotionally expressive than girls, ” writes psychologist Ronald F.