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

Nature, nurture, & psychology /edited by Robert Plomin and Gerald E. McClearn. - first edition. - Washington, District of Columbia : American Psychological Association, (c)1993. - xvi, 498 pages : illistrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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

BF341 / .N388 1993 BF341