Development Across the Life Span
ISBN: 9780136016106 | 0136016103
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For classes in lifespan development. "Development Across the Life Span "seeks to capture the discipline in a way that sparks and nurtures and shapes readers' interest. It is meant to excite students about the field, to draw them into its way of looking at the world, and to build their understanding of developmental issues. The text furnishes a broad, comprehensive introduction to the field, covering basic theories and research findings, as well as highlighting current applications outside the laboratory. By exposing readers to both the current ... MORE
| Beginnings | |
| An Introduction to Lifespan Development Prologue: New Conceptions Looking Ahead | |
| An Orientation to Lifespan Development Key Issues and Questions | |
| Determining the Natureand Nurtureof Lifespan | |
| Development Theoretical Perspectives Research Methods | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| The Start of Life | |
| Prenatal Development Prologue: The Future is Now Looking Ah... MORE | |
| Earliest Development the Interaction of Heredity and Environment | |
| Prenatal Growth and Change | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| Birth and the Newborn Infant Prologue: A 22-Ounce Miracle Looking Ahead | |
| Birth | |
| Birth Complications | |
| The Competent Newborn | |
| Looking Back Epilogue | |
| Infancy Forming the Foundations of Life | |
| Physical Development in Infancy Prologue: First Steps Looking Ahead | |
| Growth and Stability Motor Development | |
| The Development of the Senses | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| Cognitive Development in Infancy Prologue: The Electric Nanny Looking Ahead | |
| Piagets Approach to Cognitive Development | |
| Information-Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development | |
| The Roots of Language | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| Social and Personality Development in Infancy Prologue: The Velcro Chronicles Looking Ahead | |
| Developing the Roots of Sociability | |
| Forming Relationships Differences among Infants | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| The Preschool Years | |
| Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years Prologue | |
| Aaron Looking Ahead Physical Growth Intellectual Development | |
| The Growth of Language and Learning | |
| Epilogue Looking Back | |
| Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years Prologue | |
| Feeling His Mothers Pain Looking Ahead | |
| Forming a Sense of Self Friends and Family: Preschoolers | |
| Social Lives Moral Development and Aggression | |
| Looking Back Epilogue | |
| The Middle Childhood Years | |
| Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood Prologue | |
| La-Toya Pankey and The Witches Looking Ahead | |
| Physical Development Intellectual Development Schooling: The Three Rs (and More) of Middle Childhood | |
| Looking Back Epilogue | |
| Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood | |
| Prologue: Play Time Looking Ahead | |
| The Developing Self Relationships: Building Friendship in Middle Childhood | |
| Family and School: Shaping Childrens Behavior in Middle Childhood | |
| Looking Back Epilogue | |
| Adolescence | |
| Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |
| Prologue: A Teenagers Day Looking Ahead | |
| Physical Maturation Cognitive Development and Schooling | |
| Threats to Adolescents Well-Being | |
| Looking Back Epilogue | |
| Social and Personality Development in Adolescence | |
| Prologue: Adolescent Trio Looking Ahead | |
| Identity: Asking Who am I? | |
| Relationships: Family and Friends Dating, Sexual Behavior, and Teenage Pregnancy | |
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