Question

Teresa is a quiet child who has never been very active. she is good-natured and calm as long as her circumstances are familiar, but she is easily upset by changes in her environment. it takes her a long time to adapt to new food, new people, or new surroundings. teresa's temperament would probably be categorized as:

Answer 1

The correct answer is slow to warm up.

According Thomas & Chess's theory, children are born with one of the following three temperaments: i)Easy temperament, ii)Difficult temperament and iii) Slow to warm up. A child who is slow to warm up is shy, prefers familiar people and environments, and is slow to adapt to new situations and/or people.  

Answer 2

Teresa's temperament would probably be categorized as "slow-to- warm up".

When a child is born, he has his own particular manner of moving toward the world, which we call "temperament".We see in everyday life there are may children who are shy or we can say that they have slow to warm up temperament, it means that they are uneasy or careful in new circumstances or with new individuals.