Robert Plomin, J. C. Defries, D. W. Fulker

Nature and Nurture During Infancy and Early Childhood

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In light of work by quantitative geneticists, the authors reconsider the interaction of heredity and environment in the development of individual differences during infancy and early childhood. Quantitative genetics offers a general theory of the development of individual differences that suggests novel concepts and research strategies: the idea that genetic influences operate in age-to-age change as well as in continuity, for example. Quantitative genetics also provides powerful methods to address questions of change and continuity which are helpfully introduced in this study. Longitudinal quantitative genetic research is essential to the understanding of developmental change and continuity. The largest and longes longitudinal adoption study is the Colorado Adoption Project, which has generated much of the rich data on the progress from infancy to early childhood on which the authors draw throughout the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780521343701
• ISBN-10: 0521343704
• Artikelnr.: 20995509

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Individual differences and group differences
3. Quantitative genetics as the basis for a general theory of individual differences
4. The Colorado Adoption Project
5. Transitions and changes: description and prediction
6. Transitions and changes: genetic and environmental etiologies
7. Introduction to model fitting
8. Fitting sibling and parent-offspring models in the Colorado Adoption Project
9. Interactions
10. Genotype-environment correlation
11. Genetics and measures of the family environment: the nature of nurture
12. Conclusions
References
Author index
Subject index.