The Origins of Human Potential: Evolution, Development, and Psychology

Richardson, Ken

ISBN 10: 0415173701 / ISBN 13: 9780415173704

Editore: Routledge, New York, 1998

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Wrappers. Bright orange rear cover, bright orange and blue spine, bright orange and illustrated blue front cover are all clean and shiny. Book has a faint bump at the front corner of the head of the spine and a trace of rubbing at the extreme tips of the outside corners. Would be an easy NF grade, but the orange portion of the spine has sunned to a yellow - lettering is unaffected and still clear. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 217 pages. Some illustrations.

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• Titolo: The Origins of Human Potential: Evolution, Development, and Psychology
• Editore: Routledge, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415173701
• ISBN 13: 9780415173704
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Edizione: No Additional Printings Noted.
• Condizione: VG+
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

Few scientific debates have been more protracted and intense than whether we are born with our cognitive ability, whether our environment moulds it or whether these two things interact to produce it. The Origins of Human Potential offers a new insight into the arguments by showing that many of the assumptions on both sides, are false.
Ken Richardson re-examines evidence about the nature of genes in development, the environment and the development of cognitive ability and the nature of cognitive ability itself. Can it really be measured in an IQ test, like height or weight?
Ken Richardson's human-centred view describes the evolutionary context of our dynamic, changeable environments and the creative individual at the heart of the debate. It will be of great relevance to psychologists and education policy makers and should be read by all those with an interest in our children's future.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ken Richardson is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Human Development and Learning at the Open University.