1st Edition

Preschool IQ Prenatal and Early Developmental Correlates

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1975, this volume reports a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the precursors of intelligence, as measured by Stanford-Binet IQ scores, of 4-year-old children. Over 26, 000 children (more than 12, 000 whites and 14,000 blacks) were followed from the prenatal period, and 169 prenatal and developmental variables were examined in relation to preschool IQ scores.... Read more

Foreword.  Preface.  1. Introduction  2. The Collaborative Perinatal Project  3. The Population, Cohort, and Sample  4. The Selection of Variables  5. Family Characteristics  6. Maternal Characteristics  7. The Prenatal Period  8. Labor and Delivery  9. The Neonatal Period  10. Infancy and Childhood  11. Effects of the Combined Predictors on IQ  12. Discriminators between Low and Normal IQ Groups  13. Summary and Discussion  Appendix  1. Protocols of the Collaborative Perinatal Project  2. Definitions of Predictor Variables  3. Descriptive Statistics by Race for the Predictor Variables  4. The Correlation Screen  5. Contribution of Institution of Birth to Variance in IQ  6. The Effects of Nonlinear Relationships on Regression Analyses  7. The Composite Index as an Outcome Variable.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Sarah H. Broman, Paul L. Nichols, Wallace A. Kennedy