Lecture Life-span development (13th edition): Chapter 6 - Santrock
Lecture Life-span development (13th edition): Chapter 6 - Santrock
Chapter 6 - Socioemotional development in infancy. In chapters 4 and 5, you read about how the infant perceives, learns, and remembers. Infants also are socioemotional beings, capable of displaying emotions and initiating social interaction with people close to them. The main topics that we will explore in this chapter are emotional and personality development, social understanding and attachment, and the social contexts of the family and child care.