1984'3, p.60
Shchetinina A. M.
Perception and understanding by preschool children of man's emotional states
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Results of an experimental study of peculiarities of perception and understanding by 4-7 year old children of such pictured man's states as joy, sadness, anger, fright, and surprise, are presented. General types and regularities of perception of emotional states, levels of understanding them, and age differences in both processes have been established. An experimental procedure of development in children of the capacity for perception and understanding of emotions, and of development in them of perceptual standards has been elaborated. A control experiment was used in order to prove efficiency of the formative studies and to reveal corresponding changes in the ability to perceive. Social importance of the described issues is shown in the light of the educational tasks set before the Soviet people by the Party and the Government.