Psychological Development and Education ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 137-143.

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Researches into Cognitive Development of Expression in Children Aged 3 to 5 Years

GAO Xue-mei1, ZHENG Chi-jun2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, SouthWest University, Chongqing 400715;
    2. SouthWest Normal University press, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2010-03-15 Published:2010-03-15

Abstract: By means of three tasks which include nomination-copying,selection-construction and free drawing,the current study is intended to examine cognition of four basic emotions which include happiness,sadness,anger and surprise in children aged 3 to 5 years.The results are as follows:(1) children name correctly happ iness,sadness,and anger earlier than surprise,their cognition on 4 basic emotions increases by age in general, though the developmental tendencies vary;the cognition on happiness is best of allwhile the age between 3 and 4 is the rapid development period for cognition on sadness and surprise;(2)Children can select the most representative emotional label according to different emotions and show no preference for mouth generally;(3)the main effect of tasks is significant, and they perform best in copying while worst in free drawing;(4)the previous hints or problem space lmiiting more possibly activate and enrich the acquired emotion symbol.

Key words: children, cognition of expression, emotional label

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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