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The Nature of Nurture (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The Nature of Nurture (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Individual Differences and Development
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Are there certain periods in a child's development when he or she
may be more sensitive to specific environmental influences than at
earlier or later times? Are preschool teachers equally nurturant to
securely attached versus insecurely attached children? Are girls
more sensitive than boys to parental maltreatment? Designed to
synthesize what we know about the nature of environmental
influences (nurture) upon development, Wachs artfully explores
whether development depends upon a sole factor--the rearing
environment, genetics, nutrition, or individual characteristics--
or, whether the degree of directional consistency combined with the
extent of covariance among these factors may have the most
developmental impact. Issues such as how individuals respond
differently to stress, medical treatment, parenting styles,
teaching approaches and daycare centers are all discussed through
careful analysis of research and theories from a variety of fields.
Researchers, teachers, and intervention specialists of
developmental psychology, family studies, social psychology,
education, and nursing will find The Nature of Nurture an
inspiration to further examine how environmental systems determine
variability in developmental outcomes and what can be done to
promote optimal outcomes for individual children. USE IN NEXT AD
(2/1/94): "In The Nature of Nurture Wachs does precisely what he
intends to do. He lays out clearly and thoroughly what we know and
do not know about environmental influences on human development,
and he builds on the conceptual and empirical work of others to
move research on environmental effects forward in productive and
exciting ways. . . . [It] should serve as a bible for future
research on the environment and development. As such, it is a must
read for developmental psychologists from all specialty areas, to
graduate students, and to upper level undergraduates. This is an
eminently readable and important book." --Contemporary Psychology
"The Nature of Nurture provides a thorough and thoughtful review
and analysis of state-of-the-art theory, concepts, and evidence
pertaining to the effect of the environment on human development.
Especially important is the attention the author pays to the
multidimensional nature of the environment, to individual
differences among children, and to the need to consider both of
these domains of complexity for understanding the development of
specific aspects of psychological and behavioral functioning."
--Jay Belsky, The Pennsylvania State University "The Nature of
Nurture provides extended treatments of issues rarely dealt with in
detail, including organism-environment covariance and
organism-environment interaction. All in all, this is an excellent
choice for those interested in studying complex, dynamic interplay
of organism and environment. It deals with a number of critical
design and theory issues; and it ends with a hybrid ecological
developmental model designed to integrate studies of experience and
offers a useful discussion of future trends in an emerging area of
developmental studies." --Child Development Abstracts &
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