The nature-nurture debates : bridging the gap / Dale Goldhaber, University of Vermont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldhaber, Dale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature and nurture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debate, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue - behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory - and shows that the classic, reductionist strategies (behavior genetics and environmental approaches) are incapable of resolving the issue because they each offer a false perspective on the process of human development. It is only through a synthesis of the two holistic perspectives of evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory that we will be able to understand the nature of human behavior.

Contents:

Cover; THE NATURE-NURTURE DEBATES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1: Issues and Questions; The Proxy Debate; The Classic Debate; The New Debate; Plan Of The Book; 2: A Brief History Lesson; 3: The Proxy Debate: A Primer on Methodology and Analysis; The First Issue: The Level of Analysis; The Second Issue: The Focus of Study; 4: The Classic Debate; The Behavior Genetic Perspective; Some Tentative Conclusions About Nature; The Environmental Perspective; Some Tentative Conclusions About Nurture; Some Final Tentative Conclusions; 5: The New Debate; Evolutionary Psychology

Developmental Systems TheoryThe Chick; 6: So What?; So What About Nature?; So What About Evolutionary Psychology?; So What About Nurture?; So What About Developmental Systems Theory?; So, So What?; 7: Now What?; Evo-Devo; The New (Actually Old) View; Studying Everything at Once; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23282-1

1-139-53952-3

1-283-52830-4

9786613840752

1-139-52666-9

1-139-52547-6

1-139-02258-X

1-139-53133-6

1-139-53014-3

1-139-52786-X

OCLC:

804845583