Nature/Nurture

Print Resources

There are many books available on this topic. Please check the LMC Catalog for more titles.

 

REF 150           Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology & Behavioral Science

REF 150.3        Survey of Social Science  Psychology Series

REF 153.9        Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence

REF 174.2        Encyclopedia of Bioethics

REF 301           Social Issues

REF 301.03      Survey of Social Science

REF 305.231    Child Development

REF 610.3        Macmillan Health Encyclopedia

REF 612.8       The Brain Encyclopedia

 

 

Databases:

 

Opposing Viewpoints - This resource provides reference articles, essays and primary source material such as statistics.  This provides excellent differing points of view on controversial subjects.  

 

Gale Student Resource Center - This is a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.  

 

Grolier Online Encyclopedias- This database contains Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, and other reference resources that are very easy to use.  

 

EbscoHost- This information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.  

 

Newsbank- This is a comprehensive, full-text news resource offering broad coverage of todays current issues and events. Offers more than 70,000 articles annually from over 500 newspapers and other sources around the world  

 

Internet Web Sites

There is a great deal of information on the web so please make sure you check to see that you are using reputable information and that you cite your sources.

 

Use the search engines Google, SCIRUS, or Vivisimo for good results.

 

Nature vs. Nurture (Kevin Davies at PBS Nova Online)

Nature vs. Nurture - October 20, 1998 (PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer Transcript)