Snippets: - Social understanding is particularly important because of the social nature of humans and human life, even in early infancy. - Social-emotional development includes the child’s experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others. - Emotions and social behaviors affect the young child’s ability to persist in goal-oriented activity, to seek help when it is needed, and to participate in and benefit from relationships. - Since human life is relationship-based, one vitally important function of empathy over the life span is to strengthen social bonds. - Infants experience, express, and perceive emotions before they fully understand them. - Emotion and cognition work together, jointly informing the child’s impressions of situations and influencing behavior. - Together, emotion and cognition contribute to attentional processes, decision making, and learning. - Cognitive proc...
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