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Kagan, Jerome – School Review, 1972
Deals with biologically based sex differences in early childhood. Strategy is to assume that the earlier a particular behavioral difference appears in the life cycle, the more likely it is influenced by biological factors. Such biological influences may lead to differences in fear, cognitive functioning and variability between boys and girls.…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Early Experience

Berndt, 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

Jarvik, Ussy F. – American Psychologist, 1975
Reflections on psychological perspectives of aging are focused around issues of biological changes and mental functioning, genetic factors in aging, psychological changes with aging, individual differences in mental functioning and the intellectual decline of the aged. (EH)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Genetics

Hines, Melissa; Shipley, Carl – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Investigates the relationship between the perinatal hormonal environment and the development of cognitive sex differences. Compares 25 upper class women aged 14 to 24 who were exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol (DES) and their unexposed sisters. Subjects show a more masculine pattern of lateralization than their sisters but are similar in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development

Chilman, Catherine S. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1983
A number of interacting factors are discussed which significantly influence the development and expression of adolescent sexuality, including: (1) biological development; (2) societal trends; (3) psychological aspects; (4) familial patterns; and (5) historical and political influences. Adolescent cognitive development and psychoanalytic theories…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages

Block, Jack – Child Development, 1982
Specifies some problems in the Piagetian characterizations of assimilation and accommodation and offers an alternative formulation intended to resolve some conceptual anomalies. On the basis of the revision, the orthogenetic law of developmental progression is explicitly derived. Further, Piaget's notion of "equilibrium" is extended into…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development
Rosenblith, Judy F., Ed.; And Others – 1973
This volume is intended for use in college courses that combine educational psychology with child and adolescent psychology or human development. Section I, an introductory chapter presents selective groups of readings in the field of child developmental theory. Sections II through X each deal with one of the explanations of behavior that have…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Biological Influences

Lewis, 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
Anastasi, Anne – 1973
Much of our thinking about contemporary social problems reflects tacit presuppositions regarding the operation of heredity and environment in human behavior. These beliefs have important implications for practical decisions. Advances in genetics, psychology, anthropology, and other disciplines have contributed much to a clarification of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development
Cancro, Robert, Ed. – 1971
This book on the genetic and environmental influences on intelligence is comprised of the following papers: "The Structure of Intelligence in Relation to the Nature-Nurture Controversy," R. B. Cattell; "Theory of Intelligence," L. G. Humphreys; "Using Measured Intelligence Intelligently," P. R. Merrifield; "Intelligence: Definition, Theory, and…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Environmental Influences
Fox, Lynn H.; And Others – 1977
The results of three investigations into major influences affecting women's participation and achievement in mathematics and their preferences for mathematics-related careers are reported. The major cognitive, affective and educational influences are studied. Major social influences, including sex role stereotyping mathematics as a male domain,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Biological Influences, Career Choice
Harris, Lauren Jay – 1975
Sex differences in cerebral organization and functioning, and the apparent superiority of males in spatial ability are examined in this paper. Attention is given to several kinds of cognitive and perceptual tasks in which sex differences in spatial ability have been shown to exist; among these are tasks involving: (1) recall and detection of…
Descriptors: Adults, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Kimura, Doreen – 1999
This book describes the major differences between men and women in cognitive or problem-solving abilities and discusses the possible biological contributions to such differences. The book argues that sex differences in cognitive patterns and in motor skills arose out of complementary evolutionary histories of men and women and that evidence for…
Descriptors: Adults, Biological Influences, Brain, Cognitive Development
Golombok, Susan; Fivush, Robyn – 1994
In spite of the loosening ties between reproductive and social roles, the worlds of men and women and boys and girls, are clearly not the same. There is much more to being female or male than the potential to mother or father a child. Gender development does not simply depend on children's relationship with their parents: it results from a complex…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
Robert L. Thorndike was awarded the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Measurement Award at the 1972 ETS Invitational Conference. In "Heredity, Environment, and Class or Ethnic Differences," J. McV. Hunt addressed several fundamental questions pertaining to the hereditary and environmental influences of the observed social class and ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Awards, Biological Influences