I don't know how this got on my mind, but I have been pondering this for the past few days.
If you were ina house with your family, and someone came into your house with a gun, you would be scared right?
Now, lets say your little brother/sister who is only 6 months old is in the house. Do they know whats going on? Do they know to be scared?
Do they know to be scared solely based off of what other reactions are of the people they trust? If so, when do they develop these ideas of knowing right and wrong?
When do they learn thsi discipline? Is it in the instincts to be scared of certain things?

If you have an infant watch a scary movie, does he become scared? Does he know what scared is?

Fear of people who you don't know (strangers) is very different than questions of morality (right and wrong).

This post was edited by Azrad on Jan 24 2013 06:10pm

But isn't everyone a stranger when you are 6 months old?

not the people you have a lot of contact with

The baby would probably be frightened by the scary movie because modern horror movies rely at least 90% on suddenly flashing something shocking on the screen or on making a loud noise unexpectedly. It's all startling, but very little actual fear. The fear is the stuff that sticks with you and has you leaving night lights on at night, just in case.