Emotions
This emotion is present at birth
What is distress?
Infants who are high in this trait are good at regulating their emotions and shifting their attention.
What is effortful control?
This procedure was developed to carry out structured observational studies on infants' attachment to their parents.
What is the Strange Situation?
Infants start displaying this basic emotion around 6 months when they are frustrated or feel restricted.
What is anger?
This temperament trait addresses infants' positive emotional expression and energy levels.
What is extraversion?
This is the most common type of attachment between parents and their children.
What is secure attachment?
This physical expression of happiness emerges around 6 - 10 weeks in response to attention from caregivers.
What is the social smile?
Infants with this kind of temperament are often not very active and struggle to adapt to new experiences.
What is slow-to-warm-up temperament?
Children who have this kind of attachment with their parent have unpredictable behavior and often freeze or stare into space.
What is disorganized attachment?
This category of emotion develops months to years after birth and requires toddlers to have self-awareness, understand social norms, and adopt those norms.
Secondary/self-conscious emotions
Temperament is the result of these two major factors.
What are genetics and environment?
What is the internal working model?
This specific kind of fear develops in infants who are between 6- to 8-months old and does not tend to develop in infants who experience communal care.
What is stranger wariness/stranger anxiety?
This term refers to how well a child's temperament functions in their environment.
What is goodness-of-fit?
This type of attachment is more common in Western European countries, where parents prioritize independence, compared to East Asian countries, where parents prioritize community.
What is insecure avoidant attachment?