Emotional Development Paper

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Emotional development is a complex exercise that embarks in infancy and continues into childhood, adolescence and adulthood (Australia, 2013). It is the continuous evolution of the learner’s experience, expression, understanding and management of emotions till adulthood. Emotional development cannot occur separately. Neural, cognitive and behavioral development also interacts with emotional development. Emotional development includes the child’s experience, expression, and emotions management and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others (Cohen, 2005). Research has shown that emphasis is being laid more on the cognitive domain rather than the affective domain. Bloom’s Taxonomy of the cognitive domain focuses

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