Discuss how newborn and caregiver characteristics interact to promote healthy development
What will be an ideal response?
• Newborn characteristics – inborn individual differences based on genetics, neurophysiology, and coordination of physiological and psychological processes; effortful control, arousal, and emotion (both too much and too life) affect how a child experiences the world
• Caregiver characteristics – sensitive caregiving in response to an infant's unique temperament, etc., affect both the caregiver and the infant; caregiver affects regulation by how they respond to a child's needs (feeding, comforting, soothing); also impacts infant's personality based on their beliefs about how emotions are expressed which can be based on gender and culture
• Child and caregiver characteristics affect each other in dynamic and critical ways
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