Emotions Experienced
Basic emotions such as distress, interest and disgust are exhibited.
Infancy & Toddlerhood
able to delay emotion expression
Infancy & Toddlerhood
can be empathic toward victims in faraway places
adolescence
children become able to accurately judge responsibility and therefore guilt.
middle childhood
Not moody, feel positive most of the time, more boredom, drowsiness, and social discomfort.
adolescence
understand a few basic emotion words. Positive emotion words are learned before negative.
Infancy & Toddlerhood
depression is identifiable
early childhood
ability to judge controllability of the situation allows them to select the best copying strategy.
Middle childhood
emotion contagion is present, mimic others' facial expressions
Infancy & Toddlerhood
complex emotions such as envy and embarrassment emerge. Social emotions that involve moral judgement.
Infancy & Toddlerhood
intense crying and tantrums abate.
early childhood
ability to accurately discuss and label emotions continues to grow
middle childhood
more venerable to social evaluation emotions, such as embarrassment
adolescence
understand copying strategies help relieve strong emotions
early childhood
empathy and affective perspective talking improve as they learn to label and talk about emotions
early childhood