The Nature and Nurture of Behavior

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Readings from scientific American with introductions by William T. Greenough

To appreciate fully the concepts of developmental psychology, the student must be aware of the increasing agreement between biological and psychological studies of such phenomena as innate abilities, critical periods, and the development of complex behavior. This collection of Scientific American articles, unified by Professor Greenough’s introductions, provides the student who has a limited background in the field with an understanding of important relationships between biological and psychological development.
“This short collection of readings is designed to present the developmental or child psychology student, or the biology student, with an overview of the research in this rapidly expanding area, where biological and psychological approaches to behavior are beginning to meet. A glance at the list of authors ... gives some idea of the diver-sity of subdisciplines that are contributing to this field. Psychologists, physiologists, ethologists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and anatomists are represented, along with others not easily classified.” - From the Preface
Here is supplementary reading for courses in child psychology, develop-mental psychology, educational psychology, and related areas, as well as for developmental biology and similar courses.