Article
Concepts of kinship relations and inheritance in childhood and adolescence.
The British journal of developmental psychology - 1 Sept 2010
Williams Joanne M, Smith Lesley A
Abstract excerpt
This paper examines the development and consistency of children's (4, 7, 10, and 14 years) naïve concepts of inheritance using three tasks. A modified adoption task asked participants to distinguish between biological and social parentage in their predictions and explanations of the origins of different feature types (physical characteristics, disabilities, and personality traits). The causal mechanisms task...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adoption
- Child
- Child Development
- Child, Preschool
- Concept Formation
- Deafness
- Developmental Disabilities
- Eye Color
- Family
- Female
- Hair Color