PSY 632 Reflection on Temperament and Attachment Southern, Lecture notes of Accounting

Download PSY 632 Reflection on Temperament and Attachment Southern and more Lecture notes Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! PSY 632 Reflection on Temperament and Attachment Southern New Hampshire University Reflection on Temperament and Attachment There are three types of temperament that a child an experience through out their life as a child. The first is easy, this allows the child to be able to present positive moods that allow them t be more open to people. They are also able to pick on simple routines such as waking up early eating breakfast and beginning their day without any issues. The second is slow to warm up to; this child tends to be slightly responds to performing activities in a rather slow or sluggish manner because they are not able to adapt quickly like the easy child would. The third would be the difficult child. The child tends to exhibit very negates moods, is always upset, or agitated and unlike the easy child it does not learn routines quickly. They have a hard time adjusting to new things that they may be experiencing. Entering grade school can be hard for them because they now have a new routine to learn (Thomas & Chess, 1977). The two main attachment theories that have been developed are the evolutionary and the learning behaviorist theory. The evolutionary theory explains that children already have been predisposed to be attached to the others once they have been conceived in case that the child is not with the mother. The learning behaviorist theory suggest that the attachment a child has been learned once a mother breast feeds the child. They begin to develop conditioning when the mother reacts to the child such as crying, coddling and the behavior will keep going until the desired reaction is obtained ((Dollard & Miller,1950). These theories of attachment and temperament can be used to help those children that may have problems issues because the theories can help to try different avenues such as introducing small routines to difficult children. Along with these theories there are also four groups that show attachment. The first is securely attached, the child will cry out for the mother or anyone that they may have a strong connection with and will no longer cry once they feel secured with them. The second would be disorganized or disoriented; the child will show behavioral paterns that tend to be contradiction. They are slowed down emptions and exhibit much anxiety. Third is an insecure ambivalent child. They will exhibit high anxiety and show a lot of anger towards people when they have ben left. Fourth would be the insecure avoidant child; they tend to show no emotions if they are left or not. To them it does not matter and they show no effect when they have been separated from the parents (Kurth, 2013). As for my own experiences I believe I was an easy child. I never complained much and was always able to adapt to my surroundings. As a child I didn’t always live with my mother, so I had to be able to feel