Cognitive Abilities in the Early School Years: No Effects of Shared Environment between Parents and Offspring.

Cyphers, Lisa H.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1989

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Cognitive Abilities in the Early School Years: No Effects of Shared Environment between Parents and Offspring.

Cyphers, Lisa H.; And Others

Intelligence, v13 n4 p369-86 Oct-Dec 1989

Genetic involvement in specific verbal and spatial abilities and memory and perceptual speed was assessed using 163 adopted and 142 non-adopted 7-year-olds and their biological, adoptive, and non-adoptive parents. Results imply the existence of some genetic continuity from the early school years to adulthood for verbal and spatial abilities. (TJH)

Descriptors: Adopted Children, Biological Parents, Cognitive Ability, Early Childhood Education, Foster Family, Grade 1, Heredity, Longitudinal Studies, Memory, Nature Nurture Controversy, Parent Influence, Perception, Spatial Ability, Verbal Ability, Young Children

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Language: English

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