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ERIC Number: EJ471353
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Human Behavioral Genetics, Scarr's Theory, and Her Views on Interventions: A Critical Review and Commentary on Their Implications for African American Children.
Jackson, Jacquelyne Faye
Child Development, v64 n5 p1318-32 Oct 1993
Key components of human behavioral genetics and Sandra Scarr's work of the past two decades are critically reviewed based on scholarship in animal neuropsychology and clinical and educational psychology. Scarr's opinion that interventions to enhance intellectual development are ineffectual for children from abuse- and neglect-free backgrounds is challenged. (MDM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Animal Behavior, Blacks, Children, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Quotient, Intervention, Nature Nurture Controversy, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Social Development, Theories
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans; Behavioral Genetics; Child Behavior; Day Care Effects; Genotypes; Scarr (Sandra); Twin Studies
Note: This article is one of two responses to Society for Research in Child Development President Sandra Scarr's 1991 presidential address.