Emotions/Attachment
Basic EmotionsSo what are our basic emotions? There are four we exhibit in the early stages of life. Happy, sad, fear, and anger. As we develop our emotions continue to grow and become more complex. These complex emotions are known as pride, guilt, shame and the fact that we become self-aware. As we grow we learn how to act around others and use our emotions to portray how we feel in different situations.
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Temperament is how one feels in reaction to the world. When you watch a scary movie, when you presenting a big project, anything that happens in your daily life, temperament is what one feels. According to Levine and Munsch, this is a general emotion even though certain experiences and situations make you feel a certain way, temperament is to generalize that. Most people will feel the same thing you feel during a scary movie, presentation, etc. There are different types of temperament to go along with out chronological development. As an infant, we exhibit basic emotions, and have an easy temperament that adpats to change easily, but as we continue to grow into a toddler and young child we exhibit difficult temperament because we can exhibit moods and change them on the drop of a hat.
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Secure Attachment is when the mother is very nurturing to their infant. She responds promptly to their needs and is indeed secure. With a babysitter or other family member, the infant needs to be close to them and if they are not, once they reunite, they feel safe again
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Anxious Avoidant is when the child does not feel secure with the mother or caregiver and usually does not show signs of emotion when they leave or come back.
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Anxious Ambivalent is when the child still does not feel secure but also wants their mother or caretaker and shows signs of rejection towards them as well. This type of child exhibits emotions but not very consistently.
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