Social- Emotional Development
Birth to Age Two
Temperament
- Temperament refers to intensity of emotional reactions.
- Passivity, irritability, activity patterns are part of temperament.
- Passivity- how child is actively involved with surroundings
- Irritability- persons tendency to feel distressed.
- Activity patters- a child's level of movement.
-Others will be loud with constant movement
Attatchment
- Strong emotional connection
- develops between people
- the quality of attachment depends on adult
- behaviors- crying, clinging, kicking, cooing, and laughing
- Starts around 6 months
- Strongest around 15 months
Changes over Time
- child changes drastically over time
- caregivers actions determine these changes
Birth to Three Months
- excitement and distress are only shown emotions
- smiling laughing and crying are symptoms
Three to Six Months
- Child respond to emotions of others
- cryings is still shown for distressed
- baby laughs when playing
- different cries for different types of distress
Six to Twelve Months
- Become actively involved
- Children express joy and happiness
- make sounds in response to speech
- cries at sight of strangers
- separation anxiety starts to show
- crying and clinging to caregiver
Twelve to Twenty-Four Months
- still show separation anxiety
- interested in exploring, fear the unfamiliar
- play next to children with no interaction
- more aware of abilities
- profoundness and frustration are noticeable
- self awareness comes withe the word "no"