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Intro -- Advances in Child Development and Behavior -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: The development of mental rotation ability across the first year after birth -- 1. Initial studies of MR in infants -- 1.1. Forerunners of research on MR in infants -- 1.2. First studies of MR in infants -- 2. Further evidence of the emergence of MR in infancy -- 3. Sex differences in MR in infants -- 4. Factors affecting infants´ MR performances -- 4.1. Motor activity -- 4.2. Stimulus or task complexity -- 4.3. Hormones -- 4.4. Parental attitudes -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Two: Beyond perceptual development: Infant responding to social categories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method and significance -- 3. Representation of generic object categories -- 4. A turn toward social categories -- 5. A theoretical framework and additional findings on infant responding to social categories -- 6. Do all aspects of infant responding to face race follow an induction model? -- 7. Additional aspects of infant responding to face race: Are classic models of perceptual development sufficient? -- 7.1. Representation of other-race faces -- 7.2. Association of face-race categories with valence -- 7.3. Selective learning -- 8. Beyond perceptual development -- 9. Undoing bias -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three: Groups as moral boundaries: A developmental perspective -- 1. What does it mean for groups to serve as moral boundaries? -- 1.1. Support from theories of morality -- 1.2. Evidence from research on adult moral cognition -- 2. How are groups integrated into moral cognition across development? -- 2.1. Theoretical perspectives -- 2.2. Evidence from infancy -- 2.3. Evidence from early childhood -- 3. Developmental origins -- 3.1. Groups as moral boundaries as part of a built-in, first-draft of morality.

Volume 44 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including cytoplasmic inheritance redux, emergence, self organization and developmental science, and the evolution of intelligent developmental systems. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. Chapters that highlight

Front Cover -- Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents (Volume 45) -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One - Introduction: Embodiment and Epigenesis: A View of the Issues -- ?1. INTRODUCTION -- ?2. RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS THEORIES: AN OVERVIEW -- ?3. EMBODIMENT, EVOLUTION, AND ONTOGENY -- ?4. THE PLAN OF THESE TWO VOLUMES -- ?5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Two - Dynamic Models of Biological Pattern Formation Have Some Surprising Implications for Understanding the Epigenetics of Development -- ?1. INTRODUCTION -- ?2. BIOLOGICAL PATTERN FORMATION -- ?3. IFACE -- ?4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Three - A Developmental Systems Approach to Executive Function -- ?1. INTRODUCTION -- ?2. CLAIMS ABOUT THE HERITABILITY OF EF -- ?3. CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CLAIMS ABOUT THE HERITABILITY OF EF -- ?4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Four - No Genes for Intelligence in the Fluid Genome -- ?1. THE BELL CURVE ILLUSION -- ?2. WHERE ARE ALL THE PROMISED GENES? -- ?3. THE ELUSIVE IQ GENES -- ?4. EPIGENETIC AND CULTURAL INHERITANCE -- ?5. IDENTICAL TWINS ARE NOT GENETICALLY IDENTICAL -- ?6. ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS CAN IMPROVE IQ AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT -- ?7. TO CONCLUDE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Five - The Lost Study: A 1998 Adoption Study of Personality That Found No Genetic Relationship between Birthparents and Their 240 Adopted-Away Biological Offspring -- ?1. PLOMIN AND COLLEAGUES' 1998 PERSONALITY ADOPTION STUDY -- ?2. OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY -- ?3. ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS OF THE RESULTS -- ?4. THE 1998 CAP STUDY AND THE TWIN METHOD -- ?5. THE 1998 CAP STUDY AND THE MINNESOTA STUDY OF TWINS REARED APART (MISTRA).

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. Includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Positive Youth DevelopmentEach chapter provides in-depth discussionsAn invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students