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The Nature-Nurture Debate: The Essential Readings (Essential Readings in Developmental Psychology) - Hardcover
Synopsis
The Nature/Nurture Debate: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology.
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Book Description
The debate over whether our personal characteristics are determined by our genes (Nature) or the way in which we have been brought up (nurture) is discussed in key articles.
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Will a child who is genetically male, but raised female as a result of a surgical accident during infancy, grow up to identify as female? Do all children have the wherewithal to become expert musicians if provided with the same opportunities for extensive practice, or are there genetically determined constraints that no amount of practice can countermand? These are just two of the provocative questions addressed in The Nature-Nurture Debate: The Essential Readings.
No issue is more central to the field of developmental psychology than the nature-nurture debate. Its resolution promises to have profound implications for the way we view children's behavior, and the nature and malleability of their temperament, personality, intelligence, and gender identity. Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams have gathered together fourteen of the most scientifically compelling papers, each introduced by the editors, which not only provide an authoritative resource, but will also serve to stimulate meaningful classroom discussion about the most important developmental issue of our time.
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 063121738X
- ISBN 13 9780631217381
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
- EditorCeci Stephen J., Williams Wendy M.
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