Origins of Individual Differences in Infancy: The Colorado Adoption Project (Developmental Psychology Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

PLOMIN, ROBERT

DeFries, John C.

Psychology & Counseling

Academic Pr

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.

Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood

Fulker, David W.

Mental Health

Cambridge University Press

This reference provides a comprehensive overview of both animal and human behavioural genetics and discussions of controversial topics (such as the nature versus nurture issue). Features include a chapter on the role of the "new genetics" of recombinant DNA in behavioural genetic research; an introduction to model-fitting analysis; and a thorough introduction to the major areas of research in behavioural genetics.

Behavioral Genetics: A Primer (Series of Books in Psychology)

McClearn, Gerald E.

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Behavioral Genetics, Fourth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral, biological, and social sciences to the field. With the addition of new chapters, thorough updating, and a new co-author, this latest edition represents the definitive introduction to behavioral genetics: the crossroads where the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and genetics intersect.

Behavioral Genetics

McGuffin, Peter

Worth Publishers

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral, biological, and social sciences to the field. With the addition of new chapters, thorough updating, and a new co-author, this latest edition represents the definitive introduction to behavioral genetics: the crossroads where the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and genetics intersect.

For over four decades, Behavioral Genetics has explored the crossroads where psychology and genetics meet, advancing step by step with this dynamic area of research as new discoveries emerge. The new Sixth Edition takes its place as the clearest, most up-to-date overview of human and animal behavioral genetics available, introducing students to the field’s underlying principles, defining experiments, recent advances, and ongoing controversies.

Knopik, Valerie S.

Neiderhiser, Jenae M.

Presents the most recent findings from the Colorado Adoption Project, a large-scale, longitudinal adoption study begun in 1975, which tracked the children, biological and adoptive parents, and home environments of 245 adoptive families and 245 matched non-adoptive families. Its design facilitated unparalleled analyses of genetic and environmental influences on development via both parent-offspring and sibling comparisons, and longitudinal and multivariate assessments. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Nature and Nurture During Middle Childhood

Blackwell Pub.

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Origins of Individual Differences in Infancy: The Colorado Adoption Project (Developmental Psychology Series)

Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood

Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood

Behavioral Genetics: A Primer (Series of Books in Psychology)

Behavioral Genetics

Behavioral Genetics

Behavioral Genetics

Nature and Nurture During Middle Childhood