SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION DEFINITION --5 aspects of emotions SOCIOEMOTIONAL MILESTONES IN INFANCY --Social Smiling (4-6 weeks) --Stranger Anxiety (6-15 months) --Separation Anxiety (6-8 months) --Social Attachments (7-10 months) --Fear of heights (8 months) THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS: Why? Who cares? --Psychoanalytic --Learning theory --Ethological --Cognitive developmental --Cognitive-social theory ASPECTS OF EMOTIONS What elicits them? What receives the eliciting stimuli (receptors)? The physiological states that are induced. Emotional expressions (that which is observable). The experience of emotion -- sometime referred to as affect. 2 2 Social & Personality Development (Psych. 326, Hartmann), Sp98, Emotions, p. 1