Temperament Flashcards

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What is temperament?

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Biologically based individual differences in emotional characteristics and other behaviors

  • shows consistency across situations
  • shows relative consistency over time
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What are the specific temperament dimensions?

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-Fearful distress/behavioral inhibition
-irritable distress
-attention span and persistence
-activity level
positive affect/approach

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Measurement of Temperament

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  • Questionaires: typically completed by parents, child care providers, or teachers
  • Structured Observation
  • Psychophysiological Methods: heart rate, brain activity, cortisol levels
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Difficult Temperament is correlated with adjustment problems later in life. What is difficult temperament?

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high irritable distress or fearful distress, low attention span/persistence, high activity level, low positive affect/approach

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What is Goodness of Fit?

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The degree to which an individual’s temperament is compatible with the demands and expectations of his/her social environment.

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What does the research show about parenting and temperament?

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Kids that are high on irritable distress are less likely to have behavior problems if their parent’s engage in high levels of positive/supportive/sensitive parenting and low levels of hostile/negative parenting

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