maternal behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaternalandbehaviour
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maternal
adjective
uk/məˈtɜː.nəl/us/məˈtɝː.nəl/
behaving or feeling in the way that a mother does towards her child, especially in a kind, ...
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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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The results would have great potential value guidingmaternalbehaviourtowards specific goals in the context of culture-matrix variations.
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The effect of manipulatingmaternalbehaviourduring an interaction on 3 and 6 month olds' affect and attention.
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Note, however, that a significant correlation between predictors would suggest an indirect influence ofmaternalbehaviouron the future course of development.
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Those describingmaternalbehaviourduring pregnancy have been subsumed under gestation variables, and others bearing on the early care of infants, and post-natal care are associated with fertility.
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There has been an urgent need for systematic exploration of the specific factors, operating within identifiable culture matrices, that affectmaternalbehaviour, including the practices and prolongation of breast-feeding.
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In the human context, maternal stress may also affect the fetus by influencing maternal behaviours.
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As a result this research is more focused on how infants respond to specific maternal behaviours and vice versa.
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For boys, both temperamental attention and maternal behaviours seem to play a role in early language development.
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They control spermatogenesis and the ovarian cycle, parturition, lactation, andmaternalbehaviour.
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Spectacled caimans have strongly protectivematernalbehaviour.
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