ABSTRACT
Social interaction is necessary for secondary emotions but a sense of self which develops in toddlerhood is also required for the self-conscious secondary emotions. When a child reaches one year of age the development of the early secondary social emotions, is well underway. The infant has experienced satisfaction and frustration. He or she may also have experienced wariness as he or she experiences change. The satisfactions that a child of this age can experience relate to a developing love of those who bring the satisfaction. The reciprocal relationship between caregiver and infant becomes a complex interaction, and it depends, as it develops, on personal interchanges that are themselves complex and subtle, and not easily analysed in terms of association, reinforcement, and other behaviouristic concepts. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the relationship between caregiver and child is that it becomes a relationship full of fun and delight for both parties.
