The independent prediction of general intelligence by elementary cognitive tasks: Genetic and environmental influences

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-147

  Petrill, Stephen A ^a,c   Luo, Dasen ^b   Thompson, Lee A ^a   Detterman, Douglas K ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

common environment; heritability; Intelligence; twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0029998853     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359891     Document Type: Article

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