Anger

Cognitive Development

Anger

What Does Anger Mean?

"Angry."

E.D.- age 6

"Anger means when you're really mad...someone hurts your body."

N.H.- age 8

"It's when you feel like there is for much angerness...and you don't feel good."

C.D.- age 10

"It's the opposite of happiness and when you don't feel good...like when you feel upset."

M.G.- age 12

"Mad face."

E.D.- age 6

"I see someone really really mad about something ..like someone told on him. When someone would tell on me..i get really mad."

N.H.- age 8

"I see an angry face that does not feel very well."

C.D.- age 10

"I see somebody mad because..probably..someone hit him or knocked into him."

M.G.- age 12

"Someone screaming."

E.D.- age 6

"I see someone about to fight someone else. A group of girls fight someone else and thats really angry."

N.H.- age 8

"I see a person..like they try have this thing..to fight against ti like in a school or something or place that they don't have any more...like they don't get paid their usual amount for a job..and they are getting paid less..they are trying to put signs and say 'We want our usual check money back' "

C.D.- age 10

"I see somebody being mad...it looks like it is a riot..might be rioting about...maybe they are like college kids...they want something...so they are going to start a riot."

M.G.- age 12

Developmental Psychology PY241

Dr.Harris

TF: Dr.Cara Diyanni
Spring 2006

Vy Vy Vu