Author(s): Sandra Scarr, Leon J. Kamin, Arthur R. Jensen
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Year: 1981
Language: English
Pages: 545
Tags: sociology, behavioral genetics, intelligence, IQ, socioeconomic status, class differences, black-white gap, adoption studies, racial differences, ethnopsychology, heritability, nature and nurture, Noble Lie, ideology, admixture study, twin study, authoritarianism, test bias
- Preface
1. Part I: "Genetics And Intelligence"
1.1. "Genetics and the Development of Intelligence"
1.2. "Unknowns in the IQ Equation"
1.3. "An Evolutionary Perspective on Infant Intelligence: Species Patterns and Individual Variations"
2. Part II: Race And IQ
2.1. "IQ Test Performance of Black Children Adopted by White Families"
-- "Comments and Replies", John Werner, David Lane, Ajit Mohanty, Robert C. Nichols, Quinn McNemar, Sandra Scarr, Richard A. Weinberg, Chester W. Oden, Jr. and W. Scott MacDonald
2.2. "Absence of a Relationship between Degree of White Ancestry and Intellectual Skills within a Black Population"
-- "Comments and Replies", Brandon S. Centerwall, Sandra Scarr, A. J. Pakstis, S. H. Katz, and W. B. Barker
2.3. "Race, Social Class, and IQ"
-- "Comments and Replies", Robyn M. Dawes, Lee Willerman, N. O. Calloway, Ruth Hubbard, William T. Powers, H. J. Eysenck, David W. Shucard, Sandra Scarr-Salapatek, Gordon Allen, Karen D. Pettigrew, L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Samuel E. Stern, L. J. Eaves, J. L. Links, M. Schwartz, J. Schwartz and T. Dobzhansky
2.4. "The Effects of Family Background: A Study of Cognitive Differences Among Black and White Twins"
3. "Part III: Social Class And Individual Variation"
3.1. "Intellectual Similarities within Families of Both Adopted and Biological Children"
-- "Comments and Replies", Robert Plomin, Sandra Scarr and Richard A. Weinberg
3.2. "The Influence of 'Family Background' on Intellectual Attainment"
-- "Comments and Replies", Marcia Whicker Taylor, Sandra Scarr and Richard A. Weinberg
3.3 "The Transmission of Authoritarianism in Families: Genetic Resemblance in Social-Political Attitudes?"
4. Part IV: "Conclusions And Implications"
4.1. "Testing Minority Children: Why, How, and with What Effects?"
4.2. "From Evolution to Larry P., or What Shall We Do About IQ Tests?"
5. Part V: "Commentaries"
5.1. "Commentary", Leon J. Kamin
5.2. "Obstacles, Problems, and Pitfalls in Differential Psychology", Arthur R. Jensen
-- "A Reply to Some of Professor Jensen's Commentary", Sandra Scarr
5.3. "Having the Last Word", Sandra Scarr
- Author Index
- Subject Index
