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9780470634332

The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1, Cognition, Biology, and Methods,

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470634332

  • ISBN10:

    0470634332

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-11-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.

Table of Contents

Cognition, Biology, and Methods
Handbook Preface Richard Lerner Tufts University
Life Span: Concepts and Issues
Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development over the Life Span
What Life-Span Data do we really Need?
Brain Development: An Overview
Biology, Evolution and Psychological Development
The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting over the Life Span
Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development
Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective
Memory Development across the Lifespan
The Development of Mental Processing
The Development of Representation and Concepts
The Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span
Development of Executive Function across the Life Span
Language Development
Self-Regulation: The Integration of Cognition and Emotion
The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance
The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective
The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development
The Development of Knowing
Spatial Development
Gesturing Across the Life Span
Developmental Psychopathology - Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective
The Meaning of Wisdom and its Development throughout Life
Thriving Across the Life Span
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