Understanding Emotions and Learning Objectives

Concern for others' emotions

• Empathy

• Sympathy

• Affective Perspective-Taking

• Social Referencing

Affective perspective-taking that includes sharing others emotions

• Empathy

• Affective perspective-taking

• Emotion Contagion

• Social Referencing

1. When the emotions of one person causes a similar emotion in another person

• Social Referencing

• Emotion Contagion

• Sympathy

• Empathy

Reading another persons’ emotional expression to decide how you should respond

• Empathy

• Affective Perspective-Taking

• Emotion Contagion

• Social Referencing

During what stage of life do children begin to imitate the facial expressions of others?

• Infancy and Toddlerhood

• Adolescence

• Early Childhood

• Middle Childhood

During what stage of life does social referencing emerge?

• Infancy and Toddlerhood

• Adolescence

• Early Childhood

• Middle Childhood

During what stage of life do children begin to correctly label emotions?

• Infancy and Toddlerhood

• Adolescence

• Early Childhood

• Middle Childhood

During what stage of life do children understand basic concepts of guilt and forgiveness?

• Infancy and Toddlerhood

• Adolescence

• Early Childhood

• Middle Childhood

A common internalizing disorder where a child feels worried about future events

• Anxiety Disorder

• Emotional Intelligence

• Affective Perspective-Taking

• Sympathy

During what stage of life do children begin to take multiple emotions into account?

• Infancy and Toddlerhood

• Adolescence

• Early Childhood

• Middle Childhood