The 5-Objective Values Of Character Structure 

Behavior Patterns as Selecting and Enabling Behaviors

Behavior patterns in the area of Exploration, Sensory Information Flow, Play, Social Care and Elimination of Stimuli is how children come to skillfully cope with the environment. 

Opponent Processing: The Desire For Exploration And The Conflict Of Framing 

Exploration is at the heart of every child's development, guiding them toward abstract ideas, pretend play and creative experiences. But for many children, this process is often interrupted.

Enabling Behaviors: These behavior patterns are the expressions of a child's embodied sensory experience and interaction with the environment.

 Selecting Behaviors: These behavior patterns are the child's ability to detect and extract meaningful signals from the environment and form connection between ideation and their embodied respond. 

 Through opponent processing, these behavior patterns work together to help children develop cognitive flexibility, adapt to semi-structure, and engage meaningfully with the environment. When this process is disrupted, exploration becomes fragmented and children struggle with behaviors related to self-regulation, attention and engagement.

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Opponent Processing: The Desire For Sensory Information Flow And The Conflict Of Motor Planning And Sequencing

At the core of every behavior, lies the process of sensory information flow. This reciprocal flow helps children navigate their environment, make decisions and stay motivated. But when attention or motivation wavers, it can prevent meaningful engagement with task. 

Enabling behaviors: These behavior patterns open up possibilities, allowing the child to move towards the realization of reward.

Selecting behaviors: These behavior patterns reduce potential distractors, helping the child focus on what is important by filtering out unnecessary information.  

Through opponent processing, these behavior patterns work together to stabilize attention and motivation. Whether by encouraging effort towards reward or by minimizing distractions, this balance helps children stay on task, make significant progress and achieve successful outcomes.  

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Opponent Processing: The Desire For Social Affiliation (Play) And The Conflict Of Reward

Play isn't just fun- it's critical for development. Children learn to navigate reward and build essential skills. Through play, children learn to explore the social environment and balance the thrill of pursuing a goal with the satisfaction of achieving it. 

Enabling behaviors: These behavior patterns involve seeking out reward, creating anticipation about the potential for reward. 

Selecting behavior: These behavior patterns reinforce activities that have been reinforcing in the past, cultivating satisfaction.

Through opponent processing, these behavior patterns help children find and manage the delicate balance between anticipation and satisfaction of reward, creating more stable, engaging, play patterns. 

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Opponent Processing: The Desire For Social Care And The Conflict Of Social Harmony

Social care is the process for nurturing behaviors and attachment. Many parents and children face challenges in balancing their own desires with the expectations and needs of others. 

Enabling behaviors: These behavior patterns make pro-social possibilities of connection possible by reflexive feeling of empathy.

Selecting behaviors: These behavior patterns reduce the likelihood of anti-social behavior (voluntary) ensuring that positive social possibilities become more probable.

Through opponent processing, these behavior patterns work together to help children coordinate their own needs with the needs of others, nurturing a healthy balance between self-care and social-care. This balance is essential for forming healthy secure attachments and maintaining positive relationships. 

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Opponent Processing: The Desire For Elimination Of Stimuli And The Conflict Of Exposure

Navigating uncertain events is a challenge all children will face, and their response can range from passive inhibition or active defensive behaviors.

Enabling behaviors: These behavior patterns are associated with passive inhibition, where a child reflexively avoids engagement in response to the uncertain event. 

Selecting behaviors:  These behavior patterns drive active defense, motivating the child to take control of the situation by engaging in active defense with the uncertain event. 

Through opponent processing, these behavior patterns balance between passive and active responses to uncertainty optimizing the child's ability to feel secure and manage exposure to new challenging situations.   

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