Question

An infant cries very often and faces difficulties in adapting to new situations. According to Alexander Chess and Stella Thomas, which of the following temperaments would best describe him?
a. the unstable child
b. the slow-to-warm-up child
c. the difficult child CORRECT
d. the detached child

Answer 1

According to Alexander Chess and Stella Thomas, the given temperaments as the difficult child would best describe him.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Alexander Chess and Stella Thomas studied the temperaments of more than 100 infants from their infancy till their early childhood and concluded that those children whose outside influences and environment was in consonance with their personality did better in their life.

They found 9 general traits which were common among the children and on the basis of these traits they categories the children in 3 groups which are: easy, difficult and slow to warm up. A difficult child cries very often and finds difficult to adapt with the new situations.