NO TWO ALIKE
Human Nature and Human Individuality
Judith Rich Harris
W.W. Norton, 2007
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn what shapes personality differences
• Learn the relationship of systems, such as personal relationships, socialization, and status systems, which interact to form personality
• Develop an understanding of the complex scheme based on "the modular mind"
• Understand the relationship system, which starts in the cradle as infants study and learn the faces and voices of the people around them
• Learn how infants gather information that helps form personality
• Understand how the socialization system adapts people to their culture
• Learn the function of the status system in modifying our personality in accord with our environments
Judith Rich Harris is the author of The Nurture Assumption and a former writer of college textbooks on child development who realized that much of what she had been telling her readers was wrong. Her theoretical article on development won the George Miller award from the American Psychological Association.
9 CE credits; 265 pages
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