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Family Experience and the Child's Development.

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Kagan, Jerome – American Psychologist, 1979

Criticizes accepted premises regarding family influence on the child: (1) particular external conditions are inevitably associated with fixed consequences for all children; (2) some psychological structures created by early experience are stable over time; and (3) the mother-infant bond is the primary determinant of the child's future…

Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Child Rearing, Family Influence

Environment and Genes: Determinants of Behavior.

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Plomin, Robert – American Psychologist, 1989

Reviews research on the heritability of intellectual factors, personality factors, and psychopathology. Discusses the importance of investigating within-family environmental differences in order to understand the environmental origins of individual differences in development. (Author/BJV)

Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Disorders, Child Development, Child Psychology