Olga Byss

The article reports about the results of a work that was devoted to studying the characteristics of emotions development in senior preschoolers with mental retardation. The author presents data on the ability of these children to perceive and understand emotions, as well as verbalize emotional states and reveals some difficulties arising in distinguishing emotions based on expressive characters, transmitted with the help of facial expressions. The disadvantages of using vocabulary to indicate emotions are shown. It is reported about the social immaturity of children in connection with the underdevelopment of the ability to understand the causes of emotional states.