Genetics and Experience: The Interplay Between Nature and Nurture

✍ Scribed by Robert Plomin

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Series: Sage Series on Individual Differences and Development, volume 6
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Nature and Nurture
• Nature
  -- DNA
  -- Structural Genes
  -- Nature-Nurture at a Molecular Level: the Lac Operon Model Of Gene Regulation
  -- Gene Regulation in More Complex Organisms
  -- Gene Regulation and Development
  -- Gene Regulation and Individual Differences
  -- Selection, Instruction, and Adaptation
  -- The Extended Phenotype
  -- Quantitative Genetics
• Nurture
  -- Molecular Biological Analysis of the Environment
  -- History of Environmental Research
  -- Models of Environment
  -- Levels of Environment
  -- Environmental Specificity
  -- Environments Across Time
  -- New Environmental Theories of Nature And Nurture
• Summary
• The Nature of Nurture: Family Environment
• Quantitative Genetic Methods
• Rowe's Studies
• Other Research on Children's Perceptions of Family Environment
  -- Retrospective Reports of Middle-aged Twins Reared Apart and Twins Reared Together
  -- Reports Of Relative in Family Environments
  -- A Systematic Examination of Family Environment Measures
• Research On Parents' Perceptions of Family Environment
  -- Child-based Genetic Designs
  -- Parent-based Genetic Designs
  -- A Parent-offspring Adoption Study in Middle Childhood
  -- Why no Genetic Contribution for Parental Control?
• Observational Research on the Family Environment
  -- Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment In Cap
  -- Lytton's Observational Twin Study
  -- Videotape Observations of Mother-child Interactions In Cap
  -- Nead: A New Observational Study
• Summary
• The Nature Of Nurture: The Environment Beyond the Family
• Peers
• Friends and Teachers
• Social Support
• Life Events
• Others Aspects Of Extrafamilial Environments
  -- Classroom Environment
  -- Work Environment
  -- Children's Television Viewing
  -- Exposure to Drugs
  -- Socioeconomic Status and Education
• Summary
• Nature-nurture: Mediators of the Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment
• Genotype-Environment Correlation
  -- Three Types of GE Correlation
  -- Methods to Identify Measured GE Correlation
• Genetic Correlates Of Environmental Measures
• Multivariate Genetic Analysis: Passive, Reactive, and Active GE Correlation
  -- Multivariate Genetic Analysis
  -- Home, IQ, and Temperament
  -- Parenting and Personality
  -- Other Multivariate Genetic Analyses
• Environment-Behavior Correlations In Nonadoptive Versus Adoptive Homes: Passive GE Correlation
  -- Home and IQ
  -- Measures of Family Environment as Related to Other Developmental Measures
  -- Parental Mediators of Passive GE Correlation
  -- Beyond the Family Environment
• An Adoption Design to Detect Specific Reactive and Active GE Correlations
• Summary
• Nature-Nurture and Experience
• GE Correlation and Development
• Experience
• A Theory of Genetics and Experience
  -- 1. Genetic Differences Among Individuals Contribute to Measures of the Environment
  -- 2. The Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment is Greater for Measures of Active Experience
  -- 3. The Genetic Contribution to Measures of the Environment is Due in Part to Psychological Traits
  -- 4. Genetic Differences Among Individuals Contribute to Differences in Experience Independent of Psychological Traits
  -- 5. Genetic Factors Contribute to Links Between Environmental Measures and Developmental Outcomes
  -- 6. Processes Underlying Genetic Contributions to Experience Change During Development
  -- 7. Specific Genes That Affect Experience Will Be Identified
• References
• Index
• About the Author

✦ Subjects

behavioral genetics, psychology, individual differences, heritability, extended phenotype, gene-environment correlation, reactivity, twin studies, adoption studies, family design, measurement error, interrater correlation, shared environment, SES, MAVA, genetic correlation, longitudinal stability, parenting style, intelligence, personality