Research Catalog

Title

Nature, nurture, & psychology / edited by Robert Plomin and Gerald E. McClearn.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1993

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Details

Additional Authors

• Plomin, Robert, 1948-
• McClearn, G. E., 1927-

Description

xvi, 498 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Nature, nurture, and psychology

Subjects

• Genetic psychology
• Individual differences
• Behavior genetics
• Nature and nurture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 enviornmentalism / 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.

Call Number

JFE 99-12846

ISBN

1557982023 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

93009822

OCLC

27725307

Title

Nature, nurture, & psychology / edited by Robert Plomin and Gerald E. McClearn.

Imprint

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1993 (1996 printing)

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Plomin, Robert, 1948-

McClearn, G. E., 1927-

Research Call Number

JFE 99-12846