Social-Emotional Development
Birth-2 years
Temperament
- Quality and intensity of emotional reactions
- Factors are passivity, irritability, and active patterns
- Passivity- how they're actively involved with surroundings
- Irritability- their tendency to feel distressed
- Activity Patterns- levels of movement with sleep/etc....
- Need to adjust to different children's temperaments
Attachment
- Strong emotional connection that develops between people
- Mainly to people who care for them
- Children might smile when approached by them
- Attachment behaviors: cooing, kicking, gurgling and laughing
- Crying and clinging are also common behaviors
- Distress can appear as irregular sleeping/eating patterns
- Separation anxiety- Distress from caregivers leaving them
- Distress because:
- They dont know what to expect/unfamiliar surroundings
Changes Over Time
At birth: do not have refined emotions
3 months: respond to people with smiles/ laughing
6-12 months: actively involved with caregivers
12-24 months: show separation anxiety/interested in exploring