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Many of the outstanding questions in the field of affective development may be put within a unified framework that can be described as an “organizational perspective” (Sroufe, in press; Sroufe & Mitchell, in press). For example, the question of age of onset of various emotions becomes subsumed under the objective of tracing the unfolding of various affect systems and their integration with cognitive and social development. The question is not whether the 3-week-old exhibits fear but rather what are the circumstances for eliciting negative reactions at this age and what is the developmental course of both the reactions and the changing conditions necessary and sufficient for eliciting them. How is earlier distress related to what might later be called wariness and later still fear (whatever terms are actually used)? What does the unfolding of the affect systems tell us about cognitive development, and how do maturational and cognitive changes impact upon the expression of affect?
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Cicchetti, D., Sroufe, L.A. (1978). An Organizational View of Affect: Illustration from the Study of Down’s Syndrome Infants. In: Lewis, M., Rosenblum, L.A. (eds) The Development of Affect. Genesis of Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2616-8_13
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