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Misrepresentational Innateness
Author(s) -
Marcus Gary
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
child development perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1750-8606
pISSN - 1750-8592
DOI - 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00084.x
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , psychological nativism , psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , philosophy , political science , law , anthropology , immigration
— Both nature and nurture are important contributors to development, but the two are not mutually exclusive. Understanding their joint contribution will require a balanced look at both contributors. This commentary proposes that the target article by J. P. Spencer et al. (2009) falls short in this regard, largely because it misrepresents the very “nativist” position it seeks to critique.