Research Catalog

Title

Infancy to early childhood : genetic and environmental influences on developmental change / edited by Robert N. Emde, John K. Hewitt ; section editors, Jerome Kagan [and others].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Emde, Robert N.
• Hewitt, John K.
• Kagan, Jerome.

Description

xiv, 393 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Infancy to Early Childhood is the first published volume resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a unique collaboration of a group of leading developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists. Their interaction has enabled them to offer an original theoretical framework explaining how changes occur in different domains and how genetics and the environment influence those changes. The study employed parental reports and observational methods that included experimentally-elicited behaviors as well as more free-running behaviors of children interacting with their environment. Infancy to Early Childhood focuses upon a major transformation: the transition from infancy to early childhood that takes place toward the end of the second postnatal year. An array of developmental acquisitions that separate the human from other primates is initiated during this transition, e.g., acquisitions in speech and empathy as well as new aspects of emotion regulation, temperament, cognition, and self-awareness.

Subject

• Twins > Psychology
• Twins > Longitudinal studies
• Nature and nurture > Longitudinal studies
• Child psychology
• Toddlers > Psychology
• Child development
• Preschool children
• Infants
• Longitudinal method
• Twins > genetics
• Twins > psychology
• Child Development
• Child, Preschool
• Infant
• Longitudinal Studies
• Twin Studies as Topic
• Child Behavior
• Psychology, Child
• infants
• Twins
• Preschool children
• Nature and nurture
• Longitudinal method
• Infants
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Toddlers > Psychology
• Twins > Psychology
• Zwilling
• Entwicklung
• Längsschnittuntersuchung
• Kleinkind
• Entwicklungspsychologie
• Psychosoziale Entwicklung
• Milieu
• Gen
• Zuigelingen
• Kleuters
• Tweelingen (biologie)
• Ontwikkeling (psychologie)

Genre/Form

• Statistics.
• Statistics
• Longitudinal studies
• Statistiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Dynamics of development in a unique multidisciplinary collaboration / Robert N. Emde -- Twin method : what we can learn from a longitudinal study / John K. Hewitt, Robert N. Emde, & Robert Plomin -- Conduct of the study : sample and procedures / Joann L. Robinson, Jude McGrath, & Robin P. Corley -- Structure of temperament / Jerome Kagan -- Extremes analyses of observed temperament dimensions / Beth Manke, Kimberly J. Saudino, & Julia D. Grant -- Parental ratings of temperament in twins ; Sources of continuity and change in observed temperament / Kimberly J. Saudino & Stacey S. Cherny -- Behavioral inhibition and related temperaments / Jerome Kagan & Kimberly J. Saudino -- Emotional development in the twin study / Joann L. Robinson & Robert N. Emde -- Reactions to restraint and anger-related expressions during the second year / Robert N. Emde [and others] -- Empathy and prosocial patterns in young MZ and DZ twins : development and genetic and environmental influences / Carolyn Zahn-Waxler [and others] -- Dispositional cheerfulness : early genetic and environmental influences / Joann L. Robinson, Robert N. Emde, & Robin P. Corley -- Cognitive development, cognitive abilities, and modularity / David W. Fulker & Robert Plomin.
• Experimental assessment of specific cognitive abilities during the second year of life / Steven M. Wilson [and others] -- Continuity and change in general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months / Stacey S. Cherny [and others] -- Language and cognition / Susan Young [and others] -- Context and specificity of individual differences and their origins / Robert N. Emde -- Mothers' perceptions of differential treatment of infant twins / Shirley McGuire & Anne-Catherine Roch-Levecq -- Relationship context as a moderator of sources of individual differences in empathic development / Joann L. Robinson, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, & Robert N. Emde -- Development of observed shyness from 14 to 20 months : shyness in context / Stacey S. Cherny [and others] -- Perinatal effects on general cognitive ability, weight, height, and temperament / Charles Martin & Scott L. Hershberger -- Height, weight, and body mass index / Marcie L. Chambers [and others] -- Temperament, mental development, and language in the transition from infancy to early childhood / Lorraine F. Kubicek, Robert N. Emde, & Stephanie Schmitz -- Early predictors of problem behavior at age four / Stephanie Schmitz [and others] -- Experiment in collaborative science / Robert Plomin [and others].

ISBN

• 019513012X
• 9780195130126
• 0195302176
• 9780195302172

LCCN

00022514

OCLC

• ocm43474747
• 43474747
• SCSB-9523848

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library