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Data Generated From Longitudinal Studies Allow Researchers To Better Understand How Context And Experience Interact With Stable Characteristics Of The Developing Person Over Time. This Book Summarizes A Landmark Longitudinal Study Of 200 Children, From The Ages Of 3 To 23. The Munich Longitudinal Study On The Ontogenesis Of Individual Competencies (logic) Examined The Development Of Individual Differences Over Time And Whether It Is Possible To Predict Later Competencies From Earlier Ones. Offering A Snapshot Of Theory And Data On Personality, Social, Motor, Moral, And Cognitive Development, The Contributors Help Us Understand Which Individual Differences Can And Cannot Be Altered Through Schooling And Other Experiences And How Differences Seen In The Earliest Stages Are Later Reflected In Adulthood. The Results Provide Insight Into The Strengths And Limitations Of Early Prediction Of Individual Differences. --from Publisher's Description. Introduction And Overview: Goals And Structure Of Logic / Merry Bullock And Wolfgang Schneider -- Development Of Intelligence And Thinking / Wolfgang Schneider, Jan Stefanek, And Frank Niklas -- Developmental Changes And Individual Stability Of Motor Abilities From The Preschool Period To Young Adulthood / Jutta Ahnert, Wolfgang Schneider, And Klaus Bös -- Verbal Memory Development From Early Childhood To Early Adulthood / Wolfgang Schneider, Monika Knopf, And Beate Sodian -- Moral Motivation From Childhood To Early Adulthood / Gertrud Nunner-winkler -- Personality Trajectories From Early Childhood Through Emerging Adulthood / Jens B. Asendorpf, Jaap J.a. Denissen, And Marcel A.g. Van Aken -- Development Of Self-confidence From Adolescence To Early Adulthood / Friedrich-wilhelm Schrader And Andreas Helmke -- Doing Experiments And Understanding Science: Development Of Scientific Reasoning From Childhood To Adulthood / Merry Bullock, Beate Sodian, And Susanne Koerber -- The Development Of Reading And Spelling: Relevant Precursors, Developmental Changes, And Individual Differences / Wolfgang Schneider -- The Development Of Mathematical Competencies: Sources Of Individual Differences And Their Developmental Trajectories / Elsbeth Stern -- Epilogue: Problems And Potentials Of The Munich Longitudinal Study / Wolfgang Schneider And Merry Bullock. Edited By Wolfgang Schneider, Merry Bullock. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Bibliography Of Publications Stemming From The Logic Project: P. 251-266.