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Peer reviewedBertenthal, Bennett I. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
This issue's special section on canalization of behavioral development is introduced. In the special section, an invited paper by Gilbert Gottlieb, adopts a systems approach that stresses the complex interaction of genes, behavior, and environment. Several comments on the Gottlieb paper are also included. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Developmental Psychology, Editorials
Peer reviewedCairns, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Evaluates the epigenetic landscape metaphor in light of behavioral development. Cites two common errors in integrated models of behavior and biology: (1) fixing behavior as structure, thereby robbing it of dynamics and plasticity; and (2) assuming that a single optimal trajectory applies to development of organisms or systems. (BC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedGreenough, William T. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Suggests that experiential canalization is appropriately applied to constraints caused by the behavior of an organism or members of its species. When other aspects of the environment propel the organism to develop in certain ways, this process reflects adaptation to the environment. Conditions for evolution of experience as a guide to development…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedGottlieb, Gilbert – Developmental Psychology, 1991
In contrast to earlier notions, a systems view of an organism's development sees genes as only one component in a hierarchy of influences that produces finished traits and differentiation. Developmental canalization proceeds from genes, behavior, and environment as well as from the coaction of these factors. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedTurkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Notes that psychologists' interest in behavioral development concerns individual differences in behavior. Explores complexities of genetic and environmental determination of development, and of canalization. Intelligence is considered as an example of the canalization of human behavior. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences, Experience
Peer reviewedLerner, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Maintains that (1) research questions must address intra- and extraorganism contextual relations and must be multidisciplinary in scope; (2) research must be sensitive to contextual variability and individual differences; and (3) scholars must develop empirically generative models linking the development of human beings with changing contexts. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Context Effect
Peer reviewedHoffman, Lois Wladis – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Considers the increase in research on adolescence, with attention to its transitional aspects during the adolescent period and as a bridge between childhood and adulthood. In addition, discusses the effort to examine interactional processes between parent and child and between environment and genes, with respect to the articles of this special…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
