Emotional literacy
The ability to understand your own emotions and how to mange them.
Empathy
The ability to understand the world from another persons perspective and act accordingly
Self-image
How you believe others perceive you
Self-esteem
Who you believe you are
Self concept
How you perceive who you are relating to how others see you.
Deprivation
The lack of survival resources
Emotional development in early childhood
- Begin to understand empathy and show interest in peers
- Develop language so have better communication skills
- Begin to develop connections outside their family
Emotional development in adolescents (4)
- Begin to highly value group opinion
- Begin to distance them self from family connections
- Vulnerable to peer pressure and influence
- Begin exploring intimate relationships
Emotional development in Early and middle adulthood (3)
- Begin forming long term romantic
- lessen bonds with friends due to family commitment’s
-Begin to bond with and raise children
Emotional development in later adulthood
- More time for friendships and travel
- Creating stronger bonds with children and grandchildren
- loss of ability in
Later adulthood may cause social isolation
Concrete operational traits
Children understand empathy
Formal operational traits
Children understand logical and abstract thought
schema
An understanding or concept that can be developed and expanded upon
Assimilation
The creation of a new schema
Equilibrium
The child’s experience fits with their schema
Disequilibrium
A new experience disproves or disturbs previous schema formation
Accommodation
The changing of schema to account for new information
Sensory motor age
0-2
Pre-operational age
2-7
Concrete operational age
7-11
Formal operational age
11-18
Factors that may impact emotional development
. Financial stability
. Stability of support network
. Early attachment and family
. Physical and mental disability or illness
Sensory motor
. Child only understands what they experience directly
