Use of words helps children acquire complex information about an emotion category (Lindquist, 2015) By contrast, caregivers who lack conceptual knowledge about emotion or struggle to communicate this ...Use of words helps children acquire complex information about an emotion category (Lindquist, 2015) By contrast, caregivers who lack conceptual knowledge about emotion or struggle to communicate this knowledge with words decrease the child's opportunities to develop a conceptual understanding of emotion.
Language superiority effect means 2- and 3-year-olds are better able to accurately place pictures of facial expressions in a box labeled with a word (e.g., anger) as compared to a box labeled with a f...Language superiority effect means 2- and 3-year-olds are better able to accurately place pictures of facial expressions in a box labeled with a word (e.g., anger) as compared to a box labeled with a face (e.g., an angry face), an effect that increases over early childhood (Russell & Widen, 2002).
