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Gill, Kathryn – Winds of Change, 1992
Studies of families, twins, and adoptees support a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. Alcohol metabolism may affect the regulation of alcohol intake, because interference with production or elimination of the alcohol metabolite acetaldehyde has behavioral effects. Ongoing research is examining individual and tribal differences in alcohol…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Biological Influences, Genetics
Peer reviewedBateson, Patrick – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Examines the interplay between genes and environment and argues that the development of much individual variation can be explained in terms of relatively simple forms of underlying regulation. Looks at "sensitive periods," during which variation is produced by experience received at a particular age. Includes a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Children, Experience
Peer reviewedCrawford, Charles B.; Anderson, Judith L. – American Psychologist, 1989
Presents some of the concepts being developed by evolutionary thinkers to explain how animals deal with varying conditions in their environments. Discusses the environmental perspective. Explains why it involves more than predetermined behavior and that evolutionary theories now include developmental and environmental variables. (Author/JS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Environmental Influences
Download full textRickman, David L. – 1995
Although it is difficult to ascertain precisely the time at which the study of individual differences became recognized as a specialty within the psychological sciences, there appears to be much agreement among historians that its development was fostered primarily within the United States during the late 19th century. This paper examines the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Freedman, D. G. – 1967
This comprehensive paper proposing the use of evolutionary theory as a basis for studies in developmental psychology includes these specific sections: (1) Developmental Theories--a brief overview, (2) Individual Differences, (3) Culture and Inbreeding, (4) Sexual Dimorphism, (5) Critical Periods in the Development of Attachments, (6) Continuity…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Zigler, Edward – 1968
Areas of agreement and disagreement concerning intellectual developmental and the problems of mental retardation espoused by the author and by Uzgiris are discussed in this paper. The importance of environmental factors, along with the genetic and/or constitutional nature of the organism on which these environmental events impinge, is seen as…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences
