Discuss Temperament, Including the Characteristics of the Easy, Difficult, and Slow-To-Warm-Up

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Essay

Discuss temperament, including the characteristics of the easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up child and how parenting can affect each of these temperaments.

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Definitions:

9 + 2 Arrangement

The structural organization of microtubules in a eukaryotic flagellum or cilium, consisting of nine doublets surrounding two singlets.

Apicomplexans

A group of parasitic protists that lack structures for locomotion and that produce sporozoites as infective agents; malaria is caused by an apicomplexan.

Sporozoites

Motile infective forms of parasitic protozoa that can enter host cells; they are often associated with the life cycle of malaria-causing Plasmodium.

Nonmotile

Referring to organisms or cells that are incapable of self-movement.