
ERIC Number: EJ432062
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Temperamental Factors in Human Development.
Kagan, Jerome; Snidman, Nancy
American Psychologist, v46 n8 p856-62 Aug 1991
The development of two temperamental characteristics--the tendency to approach (uninhibited) and the tendency to avoid (inhibited) unfamiliar events--may be partially controlled by genetic predisposition. Discusses the results of a study indicating that the level of motor responses and crying in response to unfamiliar stimuli in four month olds predicts inhibited or uninhibited behavior patterns at age two. (CJS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Extraversion Introversion, Fear, Infant Behavior, Infants, Inhibition, Neuropsychology, Perceptual Development, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Psychological Studies, Psychomotor Skills, Stranger Reactions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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