Rothbart's Theory Of Temperament In Children

After arriving to the child care center, one of the employees gave us a quick summary of the events that were going to happen and split us up into three groups of about seven. The first classroom that I entered was the hourly room and there were no children or teachers in this room at the time. This room was a room that was open from 12:45-3 and was for children who did not require naps. One of the first things that I observed upon entering the room was that many of the things in the room were miniature to accompany the children. This included things such as the tables, chairs, and cabinets. I also noticed the mass amounts of toys that were present in the room. One of the teachers came in and told us that the room was play based which meant …show more content…
One thing I noticed that would go along with Rothbart’s theory of temperament is that the child who had been crying and was not being easily soothed appeared to fit into the negative effect of Rothbart’s three components to temperament. I say this because the child was somewhat angry and not being easily soothed by the teacher. I noticed a few things that tied to Piaget’s stages of development. In the final classroom three girls were playing in the fake kitchen and pretending to cook the food and pretended that they were serving the food. This tells me that they are know in the preoperational stage because in the preoperational stage children begin to pretend in their play. Later one of the teachers showed one of the students two cupcakes and made it obvious that they were the same size and then showed them to the student where they were different sizes and the students still said there was the same amount of cupcake. This relates to the conservation idea in the preoperational stage because in this stage the child realized that the quantity stay the same even when the appearance changes. In “Child Development: A Topical Approach, by Robert S. Feldman, it mentions that in the industry vs. inferiority stage of Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development that it is positive for a child to develop a sense of competence. The final classroom had many pictures of the children’s drawings around the room and I believe that this gave the children a sense of self competence because to them it would make them feel good if they created something that was good enough to be hung up and displayed for all to see. Saul McLeod states in an article posted on the website Simply Psychology that, “If this initiative is not encouraged, if it is restricted by parents or teacher, then the child begins to feel inferior,