Lifespan development

✍ Scribed by Bee, Helen L.; Boyd, Denise Roberts

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Edition: 7th, global
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Lifespan Development, 7/e by Denise G. Boyd and Helen L. Bee thoroughly and accessibly addresses the most critical concepts of development. Through their engaging writing style, the authors have made more abstract material about developmental theories approachable to students. Readers will appreciate both the applied nature of this title and the clarity of the authors' presentation of current research. Students will emerge from your course with a thorough understanding of developmental science and will be able to apply this understanding to their own lives."--Publisher's website.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts and Methods --
   2. Theories of Development --
   3. Prenatal Development and Birth --
   4. Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy --
   5. Cognitive Development in Infancy --
   6. Social and Personality Development in Infancy --
   7. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood --
   8. Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood --
   9. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood --
   10. Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood --
   11. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence --
   12. Social and Personality Development in Adolescence --
   13. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood --
   14. Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood --
   15. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood --
   16. Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood --
   17. Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood --
   18. Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood --
   19. Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

✦ Subjects

Developmental psychology