Infant Social-Emotional Development

Fear of a possible future event.

• anxiety

• attachment

• attachment behavior

• age appropriate

Actions one person demonstrates to another person to show closeness to that person.

• anxiety

• attachment

• attachment behavior

• age appropriate

Understanding someone has of him- or herself as a unique person.

• attachment behavior

• disposition

• high reactive infant

• self-awareness

Proper or expected ways to express emotions at certain ages.

• anxiety

• attachment

• self-awareness

• age appropriate

Infants who react to anything new with caution and who can easily become physically agitated and distressed.

• age appropriate

• disposition

• high reactive infant

• self-awareness

General mood of a person.

• high reactive infant

• disposition

• anxiety

• age appropriate

Closeness between people that remains over time.

• attachment behavior

• self-awareness

• anxiety

• attachment

Inherited tendency to react in a certain way to events.

• emotions

• low reactive infant

• temperament

• separation anxiety

Infants who tend to be sociable and bold (trying new challenges).

• emotions

• low reactive infant

• temperament

• separation anxiety

Thoughts that lead to feelings and cause changes in the body.

• emotions

• low reactive infant

• temperament

• separation anxiety