The Temperamental Qualities of Inhibition and Lack of Inhibition

Abstract

although we believe that some children are born with a tendency that favors either behavioral inhibition or lack of inhibition to the unfamiliar as a result of low or high thresholds of excitability in limbic structures, we believe that the physiological and the psychological qualities are malleable to alteration with proper experience the data we have summarized suggest that fearfulness and timidity are malleable characteristics / adaptive aspects to inhibited behavior although some children have a biologically based disposition to be inhibited or uninhibited, it probably contributes no more than 10% to the variation in adult characteristics that our society currently values and that psychologists are able to measure