ABSTRACT
This presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The social and the emotional behaviour of young children as observed from day to day in a nursery school were analysed into single items, classified roughly and arranged in lists. The lists of social and emotional behaviour items are called "Development Scales", because they can be used to show stages in the behaviour development of different groups or different children. Delight in many different things was found to grow with age, although imitative smiles were common among the youngest children. The first emotions to be differentiated in infancy are distress at shock and interference, and delight in response to satisfying stimuli. During the pre-school period, fear, anger, joy and affection are recognizable as well as the earlier evolved, excitement, distress and delight. Social and emotional behaviour are determined by conditions and experiences. As physical conditions of the body and environmental influences change, behaviour changes.
