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Children and adolescents' understandings of family resemblance: a study of naïve inheritance concepts.

The British journal of developmental psychology - 1 Jun 2012

Williams Joanne M

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This paper aims to provide developmental data on two connected naïve inheritance concepts and to explore the coherence of children's naïve biology knowledge. Two tasks examined children and adolescents' (4, 7, 10, and 14 years) conceptions of phenotypic resemblance across kin (in physical characteristics, disabilities, and personality traits). The first task required participants to predict and explain feature...

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PMID: 22550946
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02031.x

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