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From nature to nurture, and back again
Author(s) -
Miller David B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.20269
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , psychology , point (geometry) , empirical research , developmental stage theories , cognitive science , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , anthropology
Gilbert Gottlieb's developmental theory views organismic development as a multilevel system involving ongoing transactions among different levels of organization. Here, I review his conception of development as it has been influenced historically and has guided several lines of empirical inquiry focusing on auditory communication in birds. Ecological factors are considered an important means of identifying possible nonlinear (i.e., subtle or nonobvious) forms of experience that play a significant role in species‐typical development. Failure to consider such nonlinearities, along with obvious linear influences, undermines the developmental point of view that Gottlieb advocated as a means of teasing apart the intricate nature of organismic development. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 770–779, 2007.