Temperament: The Four Stages Of Cognitive Development

The first day I was there, Rachel just stood there and was staring at me, for the first few minutes I tried talking and playing with her but she was shy she would not say a word to me and she was hiding her face with her hands when I spoke to her .Everywhere her mom went she was right there with her, she didn’t want to be left alone with me. This form of emotional development is called temperament. Temperament “is the inborn differences between one person and another in emotions, activity, and self-regulation.” Temperament is epigenetic, originating in genes but affected by children raring practices” (Berger 2012 pg. 196). Temperamental traits can be genetics or like Rachel it can be a child rearing method. …show more content…
That shows cognitive development and language and communication development, because Rachel can pretend so well shows good signs of cognitive development. Rachel reached the sixth stage of cognitive development which is tertiary circulation reaction. “According to the book “The Developing Person Through Childhood” toddlers begin anticipate and solve simple problems by using mental combination, intellectual experimentation via imagination (Berger 2012 pg166). Another important cognitive accomplishment is that a toddler can pretend which was evident while Rachel was playing. Piaget called cognitive development between two and six years preoperational intelligence, a time for symbolic thought, especially language and imagination. He also mentioned the development of symbolic thought a major accomplishment of preoperational intelligence, when a child can think symbolically she becomes more adept to pretending. (Berger 2012 pg257-258) .The fact that Rachel can formulate sentences that are more than two words long ,which was evident while she was talking to her stuff toys and ask questions shows that her language and communication skills are good for her age according to the table on (Berger 2012 pg. 177). Kids …show more content…
Rachel drew shapes, and other object, then she started to color all over her body, the way she held her marker was very fascinating that showed her fine motor skills. During our session I asked her to borrow her markers and without hesitation she lent them to me that shows that she is emotionally developed and also that she has culture and emotional control. The culture that Rachel was thought, teaches her not to be selfish. According to the book “The Developing Person through Childhood”, culture differ in what emotion they expect children to regulate, and children try to follow the norms of their culture.(Berger, 2012