Emotional Characteristics Essay

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The four emotional characteristics that I chose from the list are happiness, sadness, disgust and shame. All of these emotions are common in people of all ages and are important to live a normal life. In happiness, a healthy and appropriate emotional response for a child in infancy would be smiling and laughing. In early childhood, a child that is happy will laugh and get louder with a higher pitched voice. Children in the middle childhood stage would laugh and exclaim when they are happy about something. A happy child in the adolescence stage would show signs on spontaneity and of course, laugh. For happiness, an inappropriate display of emotion would be crying in infancy An inappropriate display of emotion would be pouting during early childhood. Withdrawing from crowds in middle childhood and aggression in adolescence would be inappropriate. In sadness, a healthy and appropriate emotional response for a child in infancy would be crying. In early childhood, a normal expression for sadness would be a sad expression or crying. During middle childhood it is common for a child who is feeling sadness to pout or withdraw themselves from certain situation. In adolescence, if a child is feeling sad then they will often become quiet, withdrawal themselves from people and lose their appetite. For sadness, an inappropriate display of emotion would be laughing in infancy, a happy expression in early childhood, smiling in middle childhood and exclaiming happily in adolescence. In disgust, a child in infancy will cry and usually not look at the object. In early childhood, a child who is disgusted will cry or wrinkle their nose. In middle childhood, a child who is disgusted will say remarks that indicate that they do not like something such as “yuck!”. If a child is disgusted when they are an adolescence they will usually just get away from whatever it is that is disgusting
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