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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Plomin; G E McClearn |
| ISBN: | 9781557982025 1557982023 |
| OCLC Number: | 27725307 |
| Description: | xvi, 498 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. A century of nature and nurture. Evolution of the nature-nurture issue in the history of psychology / Gregory A. Kimble -- Behavioral genetics : the last century and the next / Gerald E. McClearn. pt. 2. The genetics of cognitive abilities and disabilities. Behavioral genetics of cognitive ability : a life-span perspective / Matt McGue ... [et al.] -- Continuity and change in cognitive development / David W. Fulker, S.S. Cherny, and Lon R. Cardon -- Genetics of specific cognitive abilities / Lon R. Cardon and David W. Fulker -- Genetics of reading disability / John C. DeFries and Jacquelyn J. Gillis -- Cognitive abilities and disabilities / Duane Alexander. pt. 3. Nature-nurture and the development of personality. Intelligence and the behavioral genetics of personality / Nathan Brody -- Genetic perspectives on personality / David C. Rowe -- The idea of temperament : where do we go from here? / Jerome Kagan, Doreen Arcus, and Nancy Snidman. pt. 4. Psychopathology : genetic and experiential factors. Genes, adversity, and depression / Peter McGuffin and Randy Katz -- Origins of schizophrenia : past as prologue / Irving I. Gottesman -- From proteins to cognitions : the behavioral genetics of alcoholism / Matt McGue -- Autism : syndrome definition and possible genetic mechanisms / Michael Rutter ... [et al.] -- Genes, personality, and psychopathology : a latent class analysis of liability to symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in twins / Lindon Eaves ... [et al.]. pt. 5. Bridging the nature-nurture gap. Heredity, environment, and the question "how?" : a first approximation / Urie Bronfenbrenner and Stephen J. Ceci -- Nature-nature issues in the behavioral genetics context : overcoming barriers to communications / H.H. Goldsmith -- The need for a comprehensive new environmentalism / Frances Degen Horowitz -- The question "how" reconsidered / David C. Rowe and Irwin D. Waldman -- The nature-nurture gap : what we have here is a failure to collaborate / Theodore D. Wachs. pt. 6. The interplay of nature and nature : redirecting the inquiry. The new quantitative genetics epidemiology of behavior / John K. Hewitt -- Genes and the environment : siblings and synthesis / David Reiss -- Whither behavioral genetics? : a developmental psychopathological perspective / Michael Rutter, Judy Silberg, and Emily Simonoff. pt. 7. Summary. Nature and nurture : perspective and prospective / Robert Plomin. |
| Other Titles: | Nature, nurture, and psychology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert Plomin and Gerald E. McClearn. |
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- Caractéristiques individuelles.
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- Psychologie génétique.
- Individuele verschillen.
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