Early Childhood Education and Care

Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Early Childhood Education and Care
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1Early
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Milestones In Emotional/Psychological Development
Emotional development of a child is referred to as the learning procedures of new
emotions and feelings and how to manage them and express those (Buss & Plomin, 2014). Infant
of age 0-6 months able to detect the emotions by voice tone and face to face communication and
responds by smiling, laughing, expressing joy when interact with familiar faces. Their emotional
responding gradually organizes (Education.gov, 2019) Child belonging to age group 7- 12
months, are able to express fear and anger in increased frequency and assume caregiver as secure
source. They adjusts their emotion by retreating and approaching from stimulating and are able
to detect emotional signal of other individual (Arnett, Chapin & Brownlow, 2018). In Child of
age 1- 2 years, self-conscious emotions are emerged. They are able to use different language to
assist their emotions. They begin to differentiate emotions, and also develops a vocabulary full
term emotional term. Child of age group 3-6 years have developed more clearly self-conscious
emotion. They are able to represent their language by using different strategies and begins to use
emotional display rules (Berk, 2013). They are able to recognize the cause and concerns of
emotions and based on that their accuracy improves and develops more reflective language. In
children of age group 7-11 years, development of self-conscious emotions are linked with inner
values. They are able to use different strategies for emotional regulation. They are able to
reconcile cues responsible for conflict and are not able to express their true feelings. Their
empathy towards the emotional understanding increases (Berk, 2013).
Attachment phase in Emotional/Psychological Development
The development of the attachment in a child takes places in a series of four phases, pre-
attachment phases (0-6 weeks), attachment in the making phase (6 weeks – 8 months), clear cut