In His Work Examining the Stability of Shyness in Early

question 49

Multiple Choice

In his work examining the stability of shyness in early childhood, Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have found that the behavioural inhibition temperament variable is ___________.

• A)completely unrelated to future behaviour patterns
• B)highly consistent and stable for the vast majority of children
• C)related to future behaviour patterns, but only for children rated as being extremely uninhibited
• D)related to future behaviour patterns, but only for children rated as being extremely uninhibited or extremely inhibited

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Definitions:

Maternal Determinants

Substances, such as proteins or RNAs, located in the egg cytoplasm, provided by the mother, that influence the early development of the embryo.

Mitosis

A process of cell division in eukaryotic cells that results in two genetically identical daughter cells from a single parent cell.

Cytoplasmic Segregation

Process that parcels out the maternal determinants, which play a role in development, during mitosis.

Programmed Cell Death

A regulated process by which cells intentionally die, playing a critical role in development and disease prevention.