Preschool IQ : Prenatal and Early Developmental Correlates (Paperback)

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.