Temperament: Biologically Based Differences

What is temperaments and how is it formed? Temperament is the way a person or in this matter a child or infant would behave or react to an event or their environment (Cook & Cook, 2014). A temperament is formed by nature and nurture, all thought an infant is born with an “innate tendency” the temperament will form as the infant parents reinforce this temperament (Cook & Cook, 2014). Some infants are born more sociable, and others might be shy and even afraid of most things (Cook & Cook, 2014). Everyone needs to feel accepted, and children are not far behind, is important they feel accepted even if their temperament “isn’t easy to handle” or just a breeze temperament (Zerotothree, 2010). A child’s temperament and personality can be a something they have inherited from the infants’ parents, but the environment where the infant grows is just as important as the genetics (Cook &

As a child enters this world, the relationship between themselves and their parent or caregiver will become the guidelines towards other relationships. With that being said, it is important for parents to know how to maintain their relationship as the child grows. Parents often make the mistake of not continuing to bond with their child since they have done that with them throughout their childhood. With the child’s brain developing throughout the years, the needs they desire may not always be effectively communicated. This can then lead to challenging behaviour. Parents must be educated to become aware of these signs and understand how they may be a signal for distress (Moretti, Obsuth, Mayseless & Scharf, 2012). An argument towards this may be that some children do not act out at all, even when they are under distress. Although this is not typically what is thought of when challenging behaviour is mentioned, any behaviour different from the child’s norm can be challenging. For example, if they become quiet and are hard to talk too, that is challenging behaviour as

After taking the temperament quiz, the scores showed that I was more phlegmatic. Phlegmatic individuals are quite, relaxed, easy-going, shy, and kind. If we look at the temperament scale, there are many aspects that led me more to being strongly persistent because I always try to keep working and improving many task. Also, I would say that I am not easily distracted, which helps when being around family while doing homework. However, after having a newborn my energy and activity level has decreased dramatically, but will pick back up after a few months. Having change throughout your life could be very difficult to adapt too. Although change may be difficult within some families, my husband and I have adapted to our sweet newborns schedule

The study of temperament can be used to understand the role of heredity in development. Infants show a variety of temperament in their first week of life. Some infants are irritable, difficult and unpredictable while others are easy, cheerful and relaxed.These inborn traits tend to persist in throughout their lives. The emotionally reactive newborns tend to be most reactive 9 months old, exceptionally shy children were most often the shy 13 year old and emotionally intense preschoolers tend to be emotionally active adults. Additionally, the identical twins have similar temperament compared to the fraternal twins.

Temperament differs from personality, although the two are related. Temperament refers to what makes a child go off whereas personality shapes the way you behave. Temperament may shape personality; it is rooted in the child’s biology (www.parentsinapinch.com/the-importance-of-temperament/). A child’s temperament is present at birth, however a parent will not be able to distinguish it until the child is about four months old which is when the baby becomes more active in life. Temperament is defined as an individual’s behavioral style and characteristic way of emotionally responding (Santrock, J. 2013 p.208).Temperament is broken down into three characteristics; easy which is the child’s ability to quickly establish a regular routine in infancy and adapts to change, difficult which engages in irregular daily routines and slow to accept change, and the slow-to –warm –up cannot grasp regular routines and does not accept change type of children (Santrock, J. 2013

The four temperaments identified by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter are guardians, idealists, artisans, and rationals. Guardians are called concrete cooperators and are usually focused on their jobs and responsibilities. People with this temperament emphasize the importance of following rules, respecting others, and obeying laws. The idealist are abstract cooperators who talk a lot about their hopes, imaginations, and dreams. Idealists focus on ways to achieve their goals while complying with their moral standards. Artisans, concrete utilitarians, are very focused on things right here and right now. Artisans love seeing things right in front of them instead of imagining and will do almost anything to reach satisfaction, even if it is not in accord with rules or ethics. Finally, rationalists, also called abstract utilitarians, focus on problems and solutions. They try to be efficient when achieving their goals, no matter the consequence.

One thing I learned from this chapter that I would offer fellow classmates is Temperament. This is a big part of education because this deals with labeling students as good kids or bad kids due to their behavior. The problem with this is that teachers should not label their students because if u treat a student like they are bad they will believe that they are bad and won’t progress. I suggest to all future teachers that they treat their students the same without labeling. I believe that if you treat all them the same they will grow together.

Social withdrawal comprises of shyness, reticence, and social inhibition, and it involves avoidance of social interaction with familiar and unfamiliar peers and adults (Kiel & Buss, 2011). As discussed in the three articles, social withdrawal is the result of negative parenting of a child with difficult temperament. Temperament is defined as biologically based individual differences in style of approach and response to the environment (van den Akker, Dekovic, Prinzie & Asscher, 2010). Children can be classified on their temperament as introvert and/or extrovert. Introvert characteristics include being very self-aware, thoughtful, emotionally private, quiet and reserved. Extrovert traits include but are not limited to assertiveness, talkativeness,

Temperament is defined as the features of your personality that are present at birth and have a genetic/biological basis. Your temperament, or basic disposition, interacts with environmental influences to create your personality (Salters-Pedneault, 2010). Temperament is a behavioral style that shows the how of behavior, rather than the what or why. Temperamental differences are present at birth; they influence how children behave toward individuals and objects in their environments and how they are affected by the environment (Behavioral-Development Initiatives, 1996-2012). Temperament originates in genes and

* Insecure attachment in which the infant shows little separation anxiety and does not pay much attention to the caregiver’s return.

Nature is the way you are born. For example the twin sister. They were split at birth and moved a thousand miles away from each other and still were really alike in personality, dislikes, and they both are into fashion. Nature can play a big role in a kid personality.

A positive relation between active/disinhibited temperament at 12-30 months of age and adult resilience has been found. Parenting style perceived as “inconsistent” relates negatively to manageability scale and total score of Sense of Coherence. The research showed the links between resilience and personality characteristics in adolescents, emerging/young adults and adult people. In school-age-children, Smith and Prior (1995) have found that positive temperament (low emotional reactivity, high social engagement) best discriminated children showing resilience on all indicators, i.e., behavioral and social competence both at home and at school, with maternal warmth and the number of adverse life events the child had recently experienced also contributing. Similarly, Tschann, Kaiser, Chesney, Alkon and Boyce (1996) have found in preschool children that a difficult temperament acts as a vulnerability factor for internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and observed aggression, while an easy temperament functions as a protective

In the recent years, There has a significant work and studies in the field of parenting and raising children. Many social workers and researchers had been putting a lot of efforts and conducting plenty of studies to find the best methods for parents to raise happy successful kids. Today’s fast paced life and the long work hours had left parents with very little time for their children. However, studies have shown the many negative effects on the kids’ personality and how important it is for caregivers to be with their kids and nurture them. Alice Sterling Honig in her article Raising Happy Achieving Children in the New Millennium talked about how it is a crucial matter for parents to spend enough time with their children, especially in their early years. Communication between children and parents is also very important, although many parents don’t understand that. For instance, when a kid does something wrong parents should talk about why did he do it and why it is wrong, not just send him to his room or spank him. Teaching toddlers and preschoolers that are still discovering the world around them can very challenging, that’s why parents need to have a lot of patience while dealing with little kids, and help them learn right from wrong. Parenting is not about how to be perfect, there is no such thing as a perfect parent or the perfect kid, there will be mistakes from both sides. Therefore caregivers need to focus on how to teach morals and values to their kids, show them

Educator should share his/her understanding and knowledge about the temperament with the parents and also talk about each temperamental trait and ask parents to tell about their child’s activity level, response to new situation, persistence, distractibility, adaptability, mood, intensity, sensitivity and regularity. Support each child’s development by recognizing, valuing and integrating the unique trait that each child has as well as sharing the idea of “goodness of fit” with the families to enable them to support their kids. The educator should create a balance between a child’s temperament, the family’s preferences and the policies of the

Temperament is a person 's characteristic, biologically based way of approaching and reacting to people and situations (Thomas & Chess, 1977 p.146). Also, temperament may affect not only the way children approach and react to the outside world but also the way they regulate their mental, emotional and behavioral functioning (Rothbart, Ahadi & Edans, 2000) p.147). The most important approach to deal with temperament is to sit with a child, to understand his or her behavior, most children are self-awareness of exploring things on their own involving cognitive thinking children must understand that others might have options about the wrongness or rightness of their behavior different from their own before they can understand and feel these