ABSTRACT
Many of the basic instinctive emotional expressions of early infancy have been reinterpreted in toddlerhood by subjective experience but are still present as quick instant emotional reactions. Earlier proto-emotions such as satisfaction and frustration are still present. In the majority of children most of the early secondary and self-conscious emotions also are present by this time though the latter are often in rudimentary form. The growth of emotion in early childhood is very much an individual development. It is subject not only to the concurrent environmental conditions, particularly the social conditions that the child experiences but also to earlier social conditions for that child. Two main developments occur in relation to emotion in early childhood. First emotions that formed earlier are further refined and sometimes transformed. Second the control of emotional expression by the child becomes a very important part of the pre-schooler's social and family life.
