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Behavioral Individuality in Early Childhoodreviewed by Dale B. Harris - 1965 Title: Behavioral Individuality in Early Childhood Author(s): T. Thomas, Stella Chess, H. G. Birch, Margaret E. Hertzig Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: , Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com The nature-nurture problem, an old issue in developmental psychology and the psychology of individual differences, refuses to remain buried. Studies of behavior genetics, conducted by a small but brilliant group of psychologists, demonstrate that behavior is more than the sum of the environmental input.
Studies of child-rearing techniques fail to find direct and consistent relations between parents' attitudes and practices and children's personality organization. On the other hand, evidence of behavior modification through practice, not to be traced to maturation alone, has been located in the earliest weeks of life. A new synthesis may be required, one which affirms the close, mutual, transactive relationship between changing organism and changing environment.
The authors of this volume seek to determine to what extent the child makes his own contribution to developmentthat is, to what extent the characteristics evidenced in the first few months of life persist into the later years of growth and influence... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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