Self-Conscious Emotions Do Not Appear Until the Second Year of Life

question 38

Multiple Choice

Self-conscious emotions do not appear until the second year of life because:

• A)children do not identify with their same sex parent until that time.
• B)children have not developed a sense of self-awareness until then.
• C)children do not have the cognitive structures to retain the knowledge of both actions and their consequences until that time.
• D)children's id's continue to dominate their self-structures until that time.