Question 1

At 4 years old, Doug is told a story about Jimmy, a boy whose favorite toy has just been broken. When Doug is asked what Jimmy is feeling, Doug is likely to indicate:

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At 4 years old, children typically have developed enough empathy and understanding of emotions to recognize that a broken favorite toy would make someone feel sad.

Question 2

The emotion of which of the following children would be the easiest for other children to understand?

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Happiness is a basic emotion that is easily recognizable and universally understood by children.

Question 3

Which of the following lists is the chronological order (from earliest to latest) in which children are able to identify emotions in others?

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Children typically first recognize happiness, followed by sadness, then anger/fear, and finally self-conscious emotions as they develop.

Question 4

Which of the following emotions is identified latest by children?

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Shame is a more complex emotion that typically develops later in childhood compared to basic emotions like happiness, anger, and disgust.

Question 5

The ability to discriminate and identify different emotions in others:

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The ability to discriminate and identify different emotions in others is related to all the given options: it is associated with social competence, lower levels of behavioral problems, and helps children respond appropriately to others' emotions.

Question 6

At 2 years old, Greg is told a story about Jimmy, a boy whose favorite toy has just been broken. When Greg is asked what Jimmy is feeling, Greg is likely to indicate:

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Question 7

Describe the development of emotions in the first years of life. What stimuli are likely to cause positive and negative emotions? Do the likely stimuli change over this time period? If so, why do these stimuli change with age?

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Question 8

Describe the concept of emotional intelligence. To what extent is emotional intelligence associated with IQ? How is emotional intelligence associated with success in life? Describe a friend (or yourself) who is particularly high or particularly low in emotional intelligence, and discuss how this person's level of emotional intelligence and IQ have affected a particular aspect of his or her life.

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Question 9

Which of the following abilities is typical of a 3-year- old child?

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A 3-year-old child is typically able to identify the causes of others' positive emotions, as they are beginning to understand basic emotions and their causes. The other abilities listed are more complex and develop later in childhood.

Question 10

Justin is 4 years old. Describe three situations in which his immature understanding of emotion (identifying different emotions, comprehending the causes of emotions, understanding the difference between real and false emotions, understanding simultaneous and ambivalent emotions) might cause him problems with his peers. In what way does the lack of emotional understanding cause these problems, and how might Justin's emerging understanding help to avoid or repair such problems in the future?

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Question 11

What are display rules, and how do you think children come to learn the display rules of their community? How might a blind child learn these rules? What is the impact on social development of children's failure to fully comprehend and follow display rules?

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Question 12

Children with a good understanding of the fact that the emotions people express do not always reflect their true feelings:

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Children who understand that expressed emotions may not reflect true feelings often have advanced cognitive skills, such as higher-level reasoning, which is also reflected in their ability to perform well on conservation tasks.

Question 13

Which of the following phrases is NOT a motive to use a display rule?

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Display rules are social norms for managing emotional expressions, and they are not used to gather information about events.

Question 14

Which of the following behaviors is an example of the use of a display rule?

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Display rules are social norms that dictate how emotions should be expressed. Damon trying not to look scared on the roller coaster is an example of using a display rule to manage his emotional expression.

Question 15

Describe the development of fear, and discuss what an evolutionary psychologist might have to say about fear. Provide supportive examples.

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Question 16

Which of the following aspects of emotional understanding develops latest?

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Understanding emotional ambivalence, or the ability to recognize that a person can experience mixed emotions about the same situation, typically develops later in childhood compared to the other aspects listed.

Question 17

Which of the following capabilities develops latest?

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Question 18

A social group's informal norms about the demonstration of emotion and when and where they should be suppressed or masked are referred to as:

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Display rules are the social group's informal norms about how emotions should be expressed or suppressed in different situations.

Question 19

Describe an event that would evoke anger in children in each of the following age groups: infancy, toddlerhood, preschool age, and late childhood.
Describe how children of each of these ages would be likely to attempt to regulate their anger.

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Question 20

Many explanations for the gender differences in rates of adolescent depression were described in the textbook. Which explanation do you believe best explains these gender differences? Be sure to provide evidence for your argument and supportive examples where necessary.

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Quiz 10: Emotional Development