This video discusses research on children's emotional development, including methods for studying emotion and developmental milestones. After viewing the video you should know the following:

1. What do researchers mean when they describe the emotional dialogue that takes place between parent and child?
 
 
 

2.  Who was Rene Spitz and what did he discover about early emotional attachments?
 
 
 

3. How does Carol Izard study emotions? Is facial expression a valid method for studying emotion in infants?
 
 
 

4. What aspect of temperament does Jerome Kagan believe has a biological basis?
 
 
 

5. What percentage of children are very inhibited? What happens to very inhibited children as they get older?
 
 
 

6. How do babies respond in the visual cliff experiment when they see their parents looking fearful? ... looking happy?
 
 
 

What does this tell us about infants' understanding of emotion?

7. What is the "rouge test" designed by Michael Lewis and what does it measure?
 
 
 
 

8. When do children display sympathy and empathy?
 
 
 
 

9. How does a 2-year-old respond to distress in a parent? Why?
 
 
 
 

10. What are the six major milestones of emotional development according to Greenspan?

0-2 Months
 

2-4 months
 

4-10 months
 

10-18 months
 

18-24 months
 

24-48 months
 
 
 
 
 

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