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Download full textVan den Daele, Leland D. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
A classification of natal influences is proposed with a model of their operation. Natal influences affect maternal capacity, maternal load, and maternal efficiency. Since maternal load is increased in twin pregnancy, results of twin studies must be generalized with caution. The method of co-twin control is exemplified by examination of a small…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Genetics, Heredity, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedMartin, Charles A. – Journal of Negro Education, 1973
Focuses on the strategy of using the science of genetics to pepetuate the racism of the dominant society, proposing that arguments presented by the "liberal" proponents of special programs in abandoning the goals of the 1960s were used to rationalize the reopening of the latent question of genetic black inferiority. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Environmental Influences, Genetics
Daniels, Norman – Harpers Magazine, 1973
A critique arguing: (1) that the assumptions underlying the use of intelligence tests are invalid; (2) that findings regarding individual differences can not be generalized to differences between populations; and, (3) that the studies cited as evidence were both incorrectly designed and improperly executed. (JM)
Descriptors: Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
Gonzalves, Linda – 1983
The history of the study of human mental ability is an example of the dialectic in social science between those who interpret data within the framework of existing social inequities and those who look for perspectives that might eventually dissolve inequities. The dedication of Henry Herbert Goddard to a belief in the scientific proof of…
Descriptors: Bias, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Data Analysis
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – IRCD Bulletin, 1969
This issue of the IRCD Bulletin is devoted to commentaries on an article by Arthur R. Jensen on the nature-nurture controversy in a recent number of "Harvard Educational Review." Contents of the Bulletin are comprised of the following: "Education, Ethnicity, Genetics and Intelligence; Jensenism: Another Excuse for Failure to…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Environmental Influences
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
Kamin, Leon; Green, Winifred – 1973
This document comprises three presentations made on March 23 at a symposium sponsored by the Southern Regional Council focusing on Human Intelligence, Social Science and Social Policy. The first of the three parts of the document is the text of the principal presentation, made by Dr. Leon Kamin, Chariman of the Department of Psychology at…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Educational Diagnosis, Environmental Influences, Genetics
