Types of Infant Temperament

Types of Infant Temperament1.0 unveilingTemperament refers to a persons characteristic modes of emotional and behavioral responding to milieual events. It is biologically based on heredity, neural and hormonal and it nates affect our response to the environment. Its as well influenced over time by heredity from p bents and experience. There argon 3 types of record which is easy-going disposition, s rugged to warmly up temperament and difficult temperament. Easy-going temperament babies ar calm and relaxed they argon excessively seen as friendly and smiling happily. Slow to warm up temperament babies are shy and they take time to try naked as a jaybird things as they do not kindred rising situations. Difficult temperament babies are very emotional and need upset well, they are unable(p) to adapt to new environment and volume. The 6 dimensions of individual differences in child temperament as well as the influences of temperament are push discussed below.2.0 Main bod y2.1 Six DimensionsBasically there are 6 divers(prenominal) types of traits for infant temperament including fearful scathe, scratchy distress, decreed effect, use train, attention bridge and rhythmicity.2.1.1 Fearful DistressFearful distress also means fearfulness and it refers to how they response when feel fear. The characteristic of fearful distress is wariness, distress and withdrawal in new situation. The validatory object lesson for babies is they wint cry frequently when they feel scare alone if is detrimental babies they volition cry whenever they feel scare such as blatant when parents leaving, when stranger position close to them or repetitive when receiving an injection. By the way, for positive thinking bragging(a) who are facing fearful distress they leave behind try to overcome fearfulness and think it in positive way. ban thinking adult who are facing fearful distress usually finishnot sleep well at night because they always worrying. Some orda in get nervous, stomachache and get sweaty hands when facing fearful distress.2.1.2 gravelly DistressIrritable distress also means anger. The characteristic of tetchy distress is fussiness, crying and showing distress when they cant get what they want. The positive irritable distress babies pass on not cry easily although they are angry but the negative irritable distress babies will cry and locomote fussiness when they cant get what they want. The irritable distress for positive adult will keep calm, relax but negative irritable distress adult will easily get angry and become very impulse when something happened.2.1.3 verificatory AffectPositive affect refers to frequency of smiling, laughing, willingness to approach other and to cooperate with them. Example for positive affect of positive cocker is they will smile to others and waving their hands, diametral that the babies will cry when strangers appear next to them. The example for adult is they went to a training camp hap pily to meet new friends and father amusement together. Negative adults do not like any new activities and they are likely to avoid themselves from meeting new people.2.1.4 use LevelActivity Level is the amount of gross motor activity which by elementary give tongue to is how much an infant moves. For the example of high activity level ball up is a baby kicking and moving often when changing their diapers and when they are sleeping. For low activity level baby is a baby does not moving when sleeping. The example for high activity level adult is they likes give awaydoors activities such as football, playing badminton or others sport games. For the low activity level adult is they like quiet environment, they will like indoor activities which is like reading, playing chess and drawing.2.1.5 oversight SpanAttention span simply means that how capacious a child pass time focuses on objects or events that they are interested to. The example for the baby of have short attention span is crying in a short period after their parents carry them or sometimes they that realize that keep crying is not the way and stop crying immediately but if is long attention span baby is they can crying lout and keep crying when they want parents to carry them although their parents is carrying. The example for short attention span adult is they cannot sit in the long time. They often get up while they are doing something and them easily to get around up. For the long attention span adult they do things very carefully and can sit in a long time.2.1.6 RhythmicityRhythmicity means that the regularity of bodily functions. Positive example for the rhythmicity baby is their eating and bowel effect time are regular, they will ask for food every few hours. Negative example is they will wake up easily and their bowel movement is different from every time. For positive rhythmicity adult, they go to sleep the said(prenominal) time on every night. Negative rhythmicity adult is the y laying bundle on the bed but fall asleep in different time.2.2 Influences on TemperamentThere are several kinds of influence on temperament which can be divided into two different stages beforehand and after preschool period. Before preschool usually just influence by their parents as their temperament are passed down to their children naturally while after preschool bewilder in more influences such as environment the children are in such as their surroundings, friends or people they meet.2.2.1 Before PreschoolBefore preschool period, the main influence of temperament is the Hereditary Influence which by simply saying is the temperament passed down from the parents to their children genetically. Usually if the children are identical twins, there is a higher chance both of them having the same attitude and temperament. As for brotherly twins, the chances of having same personality and attitude are lower compared to identical twins. For formula siblings, they usually have diffe rent temperament and attitude from each other. If the parents have long attention span and high activity level accordingly their kids will most likely to behave same likes the parents. Childrens IQ and EQ is actually all based on their parents as those are genetically passed down to them.2.2.2 After PreschoolAfter the children are 3 days old, parents usually send their children to attend preschool class offered by kindergarten. As children demoralize to attend classes from kindergarten they start to meet other children and teachers. After preschool period, there are some other influences on temperament instead of just hereditary influence which is environment influence. Children start to concern about their surroundings curiously other children and their teachers they like to have fun together with the children they like. As a result, they will start to learn their attitude and temperament in array to become friends with them. If the friend is a bully then they also will learn from them becoming a bully because they want to hang out with their friend. Children also will learn their teachers attitude and temperament as they like the teacher to teach them and they respect older people so if their teacher themselves show their bad attitude in antecedent of the children, they will also behaving like the teacher because the person they respect also behaving like that.ConclusionIn conclusion, temperament is a persons characteristic modes of emotional and behavioral responding to environmental events. The 3 types of temperament which is easy-going temperament, backward to warm up temperament and difficult temperament along with the 2 main influences on it which is hereditary influences and environmental influences are discussed. The 6 dimensions of infant temperament which is fearful distress, irritable distress, positive distress, activity level, attention span and rhythmicity are also discussed. I take time to try new things and staying in new environment s o I think that boring to warm up is my type of temperament. I wish to change myself to become an easy-going temperament person. Through this assignment I learned the 6 dimensions and the 3 types of temperament, through this information I also learned that how hereditary and environment can influence a childrens temperament.