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Author Feldman, Robert S. (Robert Stephen), 1947-

Title Development across the life span / Robert S. Feldman
Edition Sixth edition
Published Upper Saddle River, N.J. ; London : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011

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Description xxii, 724 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note pt. 1 BEGINNINGS -- ch. 1 Introduction to Lifespan Development -- Prologue: The Oldest Newest Mother -- Looking Ahead -- Orientation To Lifespan Development -- Characterizing Lifespan Development: The Scope of the Field -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life-How Culture, Ethnicity, and Race Influence Development -- Cohort and Other Influences on Development: Developing with Others in a Social World -- Key Issues And Questions: Determining The Nature-And Nurture-Of Lifespan Development -- Continuous Change Versus Discontinuous Change -- Critical and Sensitive Periods: Gauging the Impact of Environmental Events -- Lifespan Approaches Versus a Focus on Particular Periods -- Relative Influence of Nature and Nurture on Development -- review and apply -- Theoretical Perspectives On Lifespan Development -- Psychodynamic Perspective: Focusing on the Inner Person -- Behavioral Perspective: Focusing on Observable Behavior -- Cognitive Perspective: Examining the Roots of Understanding -- Humanistic Perspective: Concentrating on the Unique Qualities of Human Beings -- Contextual Perspective: Taking a Broad Approach to Development -- Evolutionary Perspectives: Our Ancestors' Contributions to Behavior -- Why "Which Approach Is Right?" Is the Wrong Question -- review and apply -- Research Methods -- Theories and Hypotheses: Posing Developmental Questions -- Choosing a Research Strategy: Answering Questions -- Correlational Studies -- Experiments: Determining Cause and Effect -- Theoretical and Applied Research: Complementary Approaches -- Measuring Developmental Change -- From Research To Practice-Using Developmental Research to Improve Public Policy -- Ethics and Research -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development?-Thinking Critically About "Expert" Advice -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms And Concepts -- ch. 2 Start of Life: Prenatal Development -- Prologue: An Agonizing Choice -- Looking Ahead -- Earliest Development -- Genes and Chromosomes: The Code of Life -- Multiple Births: Two-or More-for the Genetic Price of One -- Basics of Genetics: The Mixing and Matching of Traits -- Transmission of Genetic Information -- Human Genome and Behavioral Genetics: Cracking the Genetic Code -- Inherited and Genetic Disorders: When Development Deviates from the Norm -- Genetic Counseling: Predicting the Future from the Genes of the Present -- review and apply -- Interaction Of Heredity And Environment -- Role of the Environment in Determining the Expression of Genes: From Genotypes to Phenotypes -- Studying Development: How Much Is Nature? How Much Is Nurture? -- Physical Traits: Family Resemblances -- Intelligence: More Research, More Controversy -- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality: Born to Be Outgoing? -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life-Cultural Differnces in Physical Arousal: Might a Culture's Philosophical Outlook Be Determined by Genetics? -- Psychological Disorders: The Role of Genetics and Environment -- Can Genes Influence the Environment? -- review and apply -- Prenatal Growth And Change -- Fertilization: The Moment of Conception -- Stages of the Prenatal Period: The Onset of Development -- Pregnancy Problems -- Ethical Issues -- Prenatal Environment: Threats to Development -- From Research To Practice-From Joy to Sorrow: When Pregnant Mothers Become Depressed -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development?-Optimizing the Prenatal Environment -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms And Concepts -- ch. 3 Birth and the Newborn Infant -- Prologue: Smaller than a Soda Can -- Looking Ahead -- Birth -- Labor: The Process of Birth Begins -- Birth: From Fetus to Neonate -- Approaches to Childbirth: Where Medicine and Attitudes Meet -- From Research To Practice-The Vaccination Wars -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development?-Dealing with Labor -- review and apply -- Birth Complications -- Preterm Infants: Too Soon, Too Small -- Postmature Babies: Too Late, Too Large -- Cesarean Delivery: Intervening in the Process of Birth -- Mortality and Stillbirth: The Tragedy of Premature Death -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Overcoming Racial and Cultural Differences in Infant Mortality -- Postpartum Depression: Moving from the Heights of Joy to the Depths of Despair -- review and apply -- Competent Newborn -- Physical Competence: Meeting the Demands of a New Environment -- Sensory Capabilities: Experiencing the World -- Early Learning Capabilities -- Social Competence: Responding to Others -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 2 INFANCY: FORMING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE -- ch. 4 Physical Development in Infancy -- Prologue: Waiting for the First Steps -- Looking Ahead -- Growth And Stability -- Physical Growth: The Rapid Advances of Infancy -- Nervous System and Brain: The Foundations of Development -- Integrating the Bodily Systems: The Life Cycles of Infancy -- SIDS: The Unanticipated Killer -- review and apply -- Motor Development -- Reflexes: Our Inborn Physical Skills -- Motor Development in Infancy: Landmarks of Physical Achievement -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- The Cultural Dimensions of Motor Development -- Nutrition in Infancy: Fueling Motor Development -- Breast or Bottle? -- From Research To Practice-When Milk isn't Milk -- Introducing Solid Foods: When and What? -- review and apply -- Development Of The Senses -- Visual Perception: Seeing the World -- Auditory Perception: The World of Sound -- Smell and Taste -- Sensitivity to Pain and Touch -- Multimodal Perception: Combining Individual Sensory Inputs -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Exercising Your Infant's Body and Senses -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms And Concepts -- ch. 5 Cognitive Development in Infancy -- Prologue: The Electric Nanny -- Looking Ahead -- Piaget's Approach To Cognitive Development -- Key Elements of Piaget's Theory -- Sensorimotor Period: The Earliest Stage of Cognitive Growth -- Appraising Piaget: Support and Challenges -- review and apply -- Information Processing Approaches To Cognitive Development -- Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval: The Foundations of Information Processing -- Memory during Infancy: They Must Remember This -- Individual Differences in Intelligence: Is One Infant Smarter Than Another? -- review and apply -- From Research To Practice-Why Formal Education Is Lost On Infants -- Roots Of Language -- Fundamentals of Language: From Sounds to Symbols -- Origins of Language Development -- Speaking to Children: The Language of Infant-Directed Speech -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Is Infant-Directed Speech Similar in All Cultures? -- Are You an informed Consumer of Development? -- What Can You Do to Promote Infants' Cognitive Development? -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms And Concepts -- ch
6 Social and Personality Development in Infancy -- Prologue: The Velcro Chronicles -- Looking Ahead -- Developing The Roots Of Sociability -- Emotions in Infancy: Do Infants Experience Emotional Highs and Lows? -- From Research To Practice-Do Infants Experience Jealousy? -- Social Referencing: Feeling What Others Feel -- Development of Self: Do Infants Know Who They Are? -- Theory of Mind: Infants' Perspectives on the Mental Lives of Others -- and Themselves -- review and apply -- Forming Relationships -- Attachment: Forming Social Bonds -- Producing Attachment: The Roles of the Mother and Father -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Does Attachment Differ Across Cultures? -- Infant Interactions: Developing a Working Relationship -- Infants' Sociability with Their Peers: Infant-Infant Interaction -- review and apply -- Differences Among Infants -- Personality Development: The Characteristics That Make Infants Unique -- Temperament: Stabilities in Infant Behavior -- Gender: Boys in Blue, Girls in Pink -- Family Life in the 21st Century -- How Does Infant Child Care Affect Later Development? -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Choosing the Right Infant Care Provider -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 3 PRESCHOOL YEARS -- ch. 7 Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years -- Prologue: Wild William -- Looking Ahead -- Physical Growth -- Growing Body -- Growing Brain -- Motor Development -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Keeping Preschoolers Healthy -- review and apply -- Intellectual Development -- Piaget's Stage of Preoperational Thinking -- Information Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development -- Vygotsky's View of Cognitive Development: Taking Culture into Account -- review and apply -- Growth of Language and Learning -- Language Development -- Learning from the Media: Television and the Internet -- Early Childhood Education: Taking the "Pre" Out of the Preschool Period -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Preschools Around the World: Why Does the United States Lag Behind? -- From Research to Practice -- Preparing Preschool Children to Succeed in School -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 8 Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years -- Prologue: Baby's First Application Essay -- Looking Ahead -- Forming a Sense of Self -- Psychosocial Development: Resolving the Conflicts -- Self-Concept in the Preschool Years: Thinking about the Self
Note continued Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Developing Racial and Ethnic Awareness -- Gender Identity: Developing Femaleness and Maleness -- review and apply -- Friends and Family: Preschoolers' Social Lives -- Development of Friendships -- Playing by the Rules: The Work of Play -- Preschoolers' Theory of Mind: Understanding What Others Are Thinking -- From Research to Practice-Does Play Promote Brain Development? -- Preschoolers' Family Lives -- Effective Parenting: Teaching Desired Behavior -- Child Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment: The Grim Side of Family Life -- Resilience: Overcoming the Odds -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Disciplining Children -- review and apply -- Moral Development and Aggression -- Developing Morality: Following Society's Rights and Wrongs -- Aggression and Violence in Preschoolers: Sources and Consequences -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Increasing Moral Behavior and Reducing Aggression in Preschool-Age Children -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 4 MIDDLE CHILDHOOD YEARS -- ch. 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood -- Prologue: A Kid-Driven Sensation -- Looking Ahead -- Physical Development -- Growing Body -- From Research to Practice-Do Media Images Affect Preadolescent Children's Body Image? -- Motor Development -- Health during Middle Childhood -- Psychological Disorders -- Children with Special Needs -- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Keeping Children Fit -- review and apply -- Intellectual Development -- Piagetian Approaches to Cognitive Development -- Information Processing in Middle Childhood -- Vygotsky's Approach to Cognitive Development and Classroom Instruction -- Language Development: What Words Mean -- Bilingualism: Speaking in Many Tongues -- review and apply -- Schooling: The Three Rs (And More) of Middle Childhood -- Schooling around the World and across Genders: Who Gets Educated? -- Reading: Learning to Decode the Meaning behind Words -- Educational Trends: Beyond the Three Rs -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Multicultural Education -- Intelligence: Determining Individual Strengths -- Intelligence Benchmarks: Differentiating the Intelligent from the Unintelligent -- Below and Above Intelligence Norms: Mental Retardation and the Intellectually Gifted -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 10 Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood -- Prologue: To Play or Not to Play -- Looking Ahead -- Developing Self -- Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood -- Understanding One's Self: A New Response to "Who Am I?" -- Self-Esteem: Developing a Positive -- or Negative -- View of the Self -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Are Children of Immigrant Families Well Adjusted? -- Moral Development -- review and apply -- Relationships: Building Friendship in Middle Childhood -- Stages of Friendship: Changing Views of Friends -- Individual Differences in Friendship: What Makes a Child Popular? -- Schoolyard -- and Cyber-Yard -- Bullies -- Gender and Friendships: The Sex Segregation of Middle Childhood -- Cross-Race Friendships: Integration in and out of the Classroom -- review and apply -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Increasing Children's Social Competence -- Family and School: Shaping Children's Behavior In Middle Childhood -- Families: The Changing Home Environment -- Home and Alone: What Do Children Do? -- From Research to Practice-Two Moms, Two Dads: How Children Fare with Gay and Lesbian Parenting -- School: The Academic Environment -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Explaining Asian Academic Success -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 5 ADOLESCENCE -- ch. 11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence -- Prologue: The Middle School Marathon -- Looking Ahead -- Physical Maturation -- Growth during Adolescence: The Rapid Pace of Physical and Sexual Maturation -- Puberty: The Start of Sexual Maturation -- Nutrition, Food, and Eating Disorders: Fueling the Growth of Adolescence -- Brain Development and Thought: Paving the Way for Cognitive Growth -- review and apply -- Cognitive Development and Schooling -- Piagetian Approaches to Cognitive Development: Using Formal Operations -- Information Processing Perspectives: Gradual Transformations in Abilities -- Egocentrism in Thinking: Adolescents' Self-Absorption -- School Performance -- From Research to Practice-Telling All: Do Adolescents Reveal Too Much on Social Networking Sites? -- Cyberspace: Adolescents Online -- review and apply -- Threats to Adolescents'Well-Being -- Illegal Drugs -- Alcohol: Use and Abuse -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Hooked on Drugs or Alcohol? -- Tobacco: The Dangers of Smoking -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Selling Death: Pushing Smoking to the Less Advantaged -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 12 Social and Personality Development in Adolescence -- Prologue: Teen Tech -- Looking Ahead -- Identity: Asking "Who am I?" -- Self-Concept: What Am I Like? -- Self-Esteem: How Do I Like Myself? -- Identity Formation: Change or Crisis? -- Marcia's Approach to Identity Development: Updating Erikson -- Religion and Spirituality -- Identity, Race, and Ethnicity -- Depression and Suicide: Psychological Difficulties in Adolescence -- From Research to Practice-Could a Well-Intentioned Warning Label Have Increased Teen Suicides? -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development?-Adolescent Suicide: How to Help -- review and apply -- Relationships: Family and Friends -- Family Ties: Changing Relations with Relations -- Relationships with Peers: The Importance of Belonging -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Race Segregation: The Great Divide of Adolescence -- Popularity and Rejection -- Conformity: Peer Pressure in Adolescence -- Juvenile Delinquency: The Crimes of Adolescence -- review and apply -- Dating, Sexual Behavior, and Teenage Pregnancy -- Dating: Close Relationships in the 21st Century -- Sexual Relationships -- Sexual Orientation: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Bisexuality -- Teenage Pregnancies -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 6 EARLY ADULTHOOD -- ch
13 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood -- Prologue: A Tale of Two Students -- Looking Ahead -- Physical Development -- Physical Development and the Senses -- Motor Functioning, Fitness, and Health: Staying Well -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- How Cultural Beliefs Influence Health and Health Care -- Eating, Nutrition, and Obesity: A Weighty Concern -- Physical Disabilities: Coping with Physical Challenge -- Stress and Coping: Dealing with Life's Challenges -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Coping with Stress -- review and apply -- Cognitive Development -- Intellectual Growth in Early Adulthood -- Postformal Thought -- Perry's Approach to Postformal Thinking -- Schaie's Stages of Development -- Intelligence: What Matters in Early Adulthood? -- Life Events and Cognitive Development -- review and apply -- College: Pursuing Higher Education -- Demographics of Higher Education -- College Adjustment: Reacting to the Demands of College Life -- From Research to Practice-Taking a Chance: Gambling Joins Drinking and Drug Use as Major Threat to College Student Well-Being -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- When Do College Students Need Professional Help with Their Problems? -- Gender and College Performance -- Stereotype Threat and Disidentification with School -- Dropping Out of College -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 14 Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood -- Prologue: Ann and Michael -- Looking Ahead -- Forging Relationships: Intimacy, Liking, and Loving During Early Adulthood -- Components of Happiness: Fulfilling Psychological Needs -- Social Clocks of Adulthood -- Seeking Intimacy: Erikson's View of Young Adulthood -- Friendship -- Falling in Love: When Liking Turns to Loving -- Passionate and Companionate Love: The Two Faces of Love -- Sternberg's Triangular Theory: The Three Faces of Love -- Choosing a Partner: Recognizing Mr. or Ms. Right -- Attachment Styles and Romantic Relationships: Do Adult Loving Styles Reflect Attachment in Infancy? -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life-Gay and Lesbian Relationships: Men with Men and Women with Women -- review and apply -- Course of Relationships -- Marriage, POSSLQ, and Other Relationship Choices: Sorting Out the Options of Early Adulthood -- What Makes Marriage Work? -- Parenthood: Choosing to Have Children -- From Research to Practice-Children May Be Hazardous to Your Happiness -- Gay and Lesbian Parents -- Staying Single: I Want to Be Alone -- review and apply -- Work: Choosing and Embarking on a Career -- Identity during Young Adulthood: The Role of Work -- Picking an Occupation: Choosing Life's Work -- Gender and Career Choices: Women's Work -- Why Do People Work? More Than Earning a Living -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Choosing a Career -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 7 MIDDLE ADULTHOOD -- ch. 15 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood -- Prologue: Faster, Higher, Older
Note continued Looking Ahead -- Physical Development -- Physical Transitions: The Gradual Change in the Body's Capabilities -- Height, Weight, and Strength: The Benchmarks of Change -- Senses: The Sights and Sounds of Middle Age -- Reaction Time: Not-So-Slowing Down -- Sex in Middle Adulthood: The Ongoing Sexuality of Middle Age -- review and apply -- Health -- Wellness and Illness: The Ups and Downs of Middle Adulthood -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Individual Variation in Health: Ethnic and Gender Differences -- Stress in Middle Adulthood -- A's and B's of Coronary Heart Disease: Linking Health and Personality -- Threat of Cancer -- From Research to Practice-Routine Mammograms: At What Age Should Women Start? -- review and apply -- Cognitive Development -- Does Intelligence Decline in Adulthood? -- Development of Expertise: Separating Experts from Novices -- Memory: You Must Remember This -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Effective Strategies for Remembering -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 16 Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood -- Prologue: From Clothes to Rock to Talk -- Looking Ahead -- Personality Development -- Two Perspectives on Adult Personality Development: Normative-Crisis Versus Life Events -- Erikson's Stage of Generativity Versus Stagnation -- Stability Versus Change in Personality -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Middle Age: In Some Cultures It Doesn't Exist -- From Research to Practice-Evolving Circumstances, Evolving Personality: How Our Personalities Change through Adulthood -- review and apply -- Relationships: Family in Middle Age -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Family Evolutions: From Full House to Empty Nest -- Becoming a Grandparent: Who, Me? -- Family Violence: The Hidden Epidemic -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Dealing with Spousal Abuse -- review and apply -- Work and Leisure -- Work and Careers: Jobs at Midlife -- Challenges of Work: On-the-Job Dissatisfaction -- Unemployment: The Dashing of the Dream -- Switching -- and Starting -- Careers at Midlife -- Leisure Time: Life beyond Work -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Immigrants on the Job: Making It in America -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 8 LATE ADULTHOOD -- ch. 17 Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood -- Prologue: A Better Way to Shell a Nut -- Looking Ahead -- Physical Development in Late Adulthood -- Aging: Myth and Reality -- Physical Transitions in Older People -- Slowing Reaction Time -- Senses: Sight, Sound, Taste, and Smell -- review and apply -- Health and Wellness in Late Adulthood -- Health Problems in Older People: Physical and Psychological Disorders -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Caring for People with Alzheimer's Disease -- Wellness in Late Adulthood: The Relationship between Aging and Illness -- Sexuality in Old Age: Use It or Lose It -- Approaches to Aging: Why Is Death Inevitable? -- Postponing Aging: Can Scientists Find the Fountain of Youth? -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Gender, Race, and Ethnic Differences in Average Life Expectancy: Separate Lives, Separate Deaths -- review and apply -- Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood -- Intelligence in Older People -- Recent Conclusions about the Nature of Intelligence in Older People -- From Research to Practice-Big Body, Small Brain: The Link between Brain Size and Cognitive Declines in Late Adulthood -- Memory: Remembrance of Things Past -- and Present -- Learning in Later Life: Never Too Late to Learn -- review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- ch. 18 Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood -- Prologue: Logging on Late in Life -- Looking Ahead -- Personality Development and Successful Aging -- Continuity and Change in Personality during Late Adulthood -- Age Stratification Approaches to Late Adulthood -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- How Culture Shapes the Way We Treat People in Late Adulthood -- Does Age Bring Wisdom? -- Successful Aging: What Is the Secret? -- Review and apply -- Daily Life of Late Adulthood -- Living Arrangements: The Places and Spaces of Their Lives -- Financial Issues: The Economics of Late Adulthood -- Work and Retirement in Late Adulthood -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Planning for -- and Living -- a Good Retirement -- Review and apply -- Relationships: Old And New -- Marriage in the Later Years: Together, Then Alone -- Social Networks of Late Adulthood -- Family Relationships: The Ties That Bind -- From Research to Practice -- The Mental Health Consequences of Loneliness in Old Age -- Elder Abuse: Relationships Gone Wrong -- Review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms and Concepts -- pt. 9 ENDINGS -- ch. 19 Death and Dying -- Prologue: Facing the End with a Smile -- Looking Ahead -- Dying And Death Across The Life Span -- Defining Death: Determining the Point at Which Life Ends -- Death Across the Life Span: Causes and Reactions -- Developmental Diversity and Your Life -- Differing Conceptions of Death -- Can Death Education Prepare Us for the Inevitable? -- Review and apply -- Confronting Death -- Understanding the Process of Dying: Are There Steps toward Death? -- Choosing the Nature of Death: Is DNR the Way to Go? -- Caring for the Terminally Ill: The Place of Death -- Review and apply -- Grief And Bereavement -- Mourning and Funerals: Final Rites -- Bereavement and Grief: Adjusting to the Death of a Loved One -- From Research to Practice -- Living on through Facebook -- Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? -- Helping a Child Cope with Grief -- Review and apply -- Epilogue -- Looking Back -- Key Terms And Concepts
Summary Robert Feldman offers students a chronological overview of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development, from conception through death with his text Development Across the Lifespan. The text presents coverage of theory and research, with an emphasis on the application of these concepts by students in their personal and future professional lives. The text taps into students' inherent interest in the subject of human development, encouraging them to draw connections between the material and their own experiences
Notes "International edition"--cover
Previous ed.: 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Adolescence.
Adolescent psychology.
Child development.
Child psychology.
Developmental psychology -- Textbooks.
Human Development.
Human Development.
Psychology.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
ISBN 0205826547 (paperback)
9780205826544 (paperback)