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Simonton, Dean Keith – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
With just one exception, all of the volumes in Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius report the results of a longitudinal study of more than a thousand intellectually gifted children. That single exception is Volume II, Cox's single-authored "The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses," which instead was a retrospective study of 301…
Descriptors: Gifted, Individual Characteristics, Intelligence Quotient, History
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Wilson, Ronald S.; Matheny, Adam P., Jr. – Intelligence, 1983
Assessments of the home environments of 116 families whose twins were participants in a longitudinal study of early mental development were conducted. Predictions of offspring intelligence scores increased from ages six months to six years old. Although home/family variables were related to mental development, so were parental education and SES.…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Influence, Genetics