PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - David Buss, Psych, Epistasis
18 Jun 2013
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Thomas, chess & birch (1970) level of motor activity. Positive response to new object regularity in biological functions friendliness or good mood. Early indicators of the child"s temperament: general orientation to behaviour in the world, displays that it is biological as it is seen in children. Have to show reliability, consistent across time consistent pattern and set of tendencies that were apparent across the childhood lifespan, reason to believe it"s biologically based: showed very early in life, and is consistent through early childhood. Of the difficult children, 70% of them at some time in their school career were referred to school psychologist for some kind of problem compared to. 20% of the easy infants temperament dimension is predictive of later behaviour patterns. High levels of energy sociability of temperament studied social development of male and female twin pairs, mz and dz. Mz should never be more than twice.
