socio-affective development - Emotions

The socio-affective development is a key to grow and evolve, to understand the world around us and to relacionate us with the others. Being children, adults or elderly, this development never stops we are always absorbing and creating affective relations with elements and people around us.

An emotion is an affective state that we experiment, an innative reaction which is influenced by our experiences. The emotions are adapted in our functions to the rest that involve us. When we are only a few months old, we acquired some basic emotions. This language makes that these emotions will become more complex , because we use symbols, signs and give a meaning to each one.

The emotions are: Fear, Surprise, Disgust, Anger, Hapiness and Sadness.