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Williams, Joanne M.; Smith, Lesley A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
This paper examines the development and consistency of children's (4, 7, 10, and 14 years) naive 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,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Physical Characteristics, Family Relationship, Developmental Stages