- Understand how emotions change during early childhood.
- Understand how the sense of self develops in early childhood.
- Be able to differentiate between the different theories on the development of gender identity.
- Know the roles played by environmental influences, cognitive development and emotional development in the development of morality.
- Understand how children are socialized by their family so they behave in an appropriate way for their culture.
- Know what play and peer relationships are like during early childhood.
- Know the risks and resources that are relevant to emotional development in early childhood.
