All of the Following Are Contributions of the New York

question 53

Multiple Choice

All of the following are contributions of the New York Longitudinal Study EXCEPT:

• A) it looked at infants' behaviors in their own right rather than conceiving of them as infant versions of adult behaviors and qualities
• B) it identified two important dimensions of temperament with infants who appear inhibited and those who seem uninhibited
• C) it suggested that infants' behaviors could be coded into temperament categories that might have some degree of developmental continuity
• D) it started to reveal how the specific circumstances of a child's development could strongly modify a child's temperamental disposition

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