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Peer reviewedBixler, Ray H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Critiques an environmentalist view of the effects of nature and nurture on behavior. Argues for an interactionist position in which nature and nurture are totally and inextricably involved in each and every organismic response. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Genetics
Peer reviewedBerndt, Thomas J. – Child Development, 1982
Four features of early adolescent friendship have received the greatest attention in the literature: intimacy of conversations, friends' responsiveness to each other's needs and desires, the degree of similarity or complementarity between friends, and the stability of friendships over time. Each of these features and its potential effect on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Change, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedMitchell, Edna – Young Children, 1973
The major shaping influences detailed in this article are parental attitudes and the commercial channel of nonchoice in toys and books as they affect the development of sex identification. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Books, Childhood Attitudes
Download full textFreedman, Susan A. – 1993
Various definitions of gender identity have ranged from recognition of one's biological sex to an individual's sense of masculinity or femininity. For the purpose of this paper, which examines some of the theoretical approaches to the subject, gender identity will be defined as "the degree to which individuals are 'aware' of and accept their…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Feminism, Identification (Psychology)
Peer reviewedLewis, Michael; Weintraub, Marsha – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1979
Development in general, and sex-role behavior in particular, is influenced by both biological and environmental factors. However, the coalescence of these factors around the child's growing social cognitive abilities is the critical factor in the development of sex role behavior. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedBrooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. – American Psychologist, 1989
Reviews the state of knowledge on adolescent sexual behavior in the following areas: (1) onset of sexual behavior as a function of cohort, gender, and ethnic differences; (2) biological, social, and cognitive processes underlying such behavior; (3) demographic trends in the use of contraceptives; (4) research problems; and (5) successful programs.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development
Haas, Adelaide – 1978
Evidence shows that there are differences in the ways in which men and women speak. It has also been well documented that females are generally ahead of males in language acquisition and are less often diagnosed as speech pathologic. A review of the research gives some indication of the reasons for the development of sex differences in spoken…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Language
