Psychology 3440F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Plus And Minus Signs, Infant, Cortisol

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3440F/G
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Dcn november 24th social development/ fear and anxiety. Characterizing these individuals differences temperamental traits are labeled. Temperament = there is variability in the population for this trait. Different kinds of temperament will have a wide normal distribution. Experience secondary: experience plays a secondary role in these individual differences. Measured behavioural inhibition 14, 20, 32 and 48 months longitudinal. Good prediction of there they will be at 14 20 and 32 but breaks down at 48. Look at kids at the ends of the spectrum very fearful and uninhibited children at the ends of the distributions (extreme groups) and found they were consistent up until 48 months. Despite the evidence of no stability for the entire group (sample as a whole) in 14 48 months they found the extreme groups were stable from 14 48 months. So the extreme individuals were the only group that have this stability over time. Fearful kids remained more fearful than the inhibited kids.