PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Frontal Lobe, Psych, David Buss
28 Oct 2020
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Biologically based (bc the studies start off looking at very very young infants and follow them over time: longitudinal) Same subjects are assessed at multiple points in time. They followed 100 children from birth to adolescence. Parental reports on infants in a variety of situations. Easy: playful and adaptable (not super reactive to new things, can calm themselves) Difficult: negative and not adaptable (very reactive, not easily calmed) Slow to warm up: low reactivity and mild responses (in the middle basically) Temperament types tend to stay very stable (genetically determined) Goodness of fit: if parents of difficult babies are patient they can hopefully help the difficult child. Buss & plomin (1984): dimensions of temperament. Emotionality (how much general distress/emotions do they show) Reactivity (how do they react to new things, can they be easily calmed) Sociability (how do they interact with other people; eye contact, etc. ) Study was similar to thomas and chess, bc they used parental reports.
