Lifespan development

✍ Scribed by Hoffnung, Michele

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1201
• Edition: Fourth Australasian edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Intro
Lifespan development
Brief contents
Contents
About the authors
PART 1 Beginnings
1 Studying development
1.1 The nature of development
Multiple domains of development
Development from a lifespan perspective: voices across the lifespan
1.2 Why study development?
1.3 The life course in times past
Early precursors to developmental study
The emergence of modern developmental study
1.4 Perspectives on human development
Continuity within change
Lifelong growth
Changing meanings and vantage points
Developmental diversity
1.5 Methods of studying developmental psychology. Scientific methodsVariations in time frame
Variations in control: naturalistic and experimental studies
Variations in sample size
1.6 Ethical constraints on studying development
Strengths and limitations of developmental knowledge
SUMMARY
KEY TERMS
REVIEW QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
ESSAY QUESTION
WEBSITES
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2 Theories of development
2.1 The nature of developmental theories
What is a developmental theory?
How do developmental theories differ?
2.2 Psychodynamic developmental theories
Freudian theory. Eriksons psychosocial theoryOther psychodynamic approaches
Applications of psychodynamic developmental theories throughout the lifespan
2.3 Behavioural learning and social cognitive learning developmental theories
Behavioural learning theories
Social cognitive learning theory
Applications of learning theories throughout the lifespan
2.4 Cognitive developmental theories
Piagets cognitive theory
Neo-Piagetian approaches
Information-processing theory
Applications of cognitive developmental theories throughout the lifespan
Moral developmental theories. 2.5 Contextual developmental theoriesBronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Applications of contextual developmental theories throughout the lifespan
2.6 Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories
Normative-crisis model of development
Timing-of-events model
New directions: dynamic systems perspective
Developmental psychopathology
2.7 Developmental theories compared: implications for the student
SUMMARY
KEY TERMS
REVIEW QUESTIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
APPLICATION QUESTION
ESSAY QUESTION
WEBSITES
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3 Biological foundations, genetics, prenatal development and birth3.1 Mechanisms of genetic transmission
The role of DNA
3.2 Individual genetic expression
Genotype and phenotype
Dominant and recessive genes
Transmission of multiple variations
Polygenic transmission
The determination of sex
3.3 Genetic abnormalities
Disorders due to abnormal chromosomes
Disorders due to abnormal genes
3.4 Genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis
3.5 Relative influence of heredity and environment
Key concepts of behaviour genetics
Adoption and twin studies
3.6 Stages of prenatal development.

✦ Subjects

Developmental psychology -- Textbooks;Human growth -- Textbooks;Developmental psychology;Human growth