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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: greenspirit who wrote (36493)8/30/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I would be very surprised if temperament is instilled at birth. It is well know that innervation is far from complete at birth but must develop over the years. Nerve growth is affected by stimuli. There is a strong suggestion from the UKansas studies that children's brightness and IQ are strongly influenced by how much they are talked to. True, some children are fearful and reclusive from birth, and others are quite adventurous. My observation of children suggests there is seldom a close correlation between infant temperament and adult temperament. The suggestion that unwanted children (refused abortions) in the Czechoslovak study, for instance, are inferior on many scales may also support this lack of correlation, unless prenatal rejection can be demonstrated in some other study.
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