The Beginnings | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics | p. 3 |
A Case to Study: "This Sense of Liberation" | p. 8 |
In Person: My Nephew David | p. 16 |
Developmental Study as a Science | p. 18 |
Studying Changes over Time | p. 23 |
Ethics and Science | p. 29 |
Theories of Development | p. 33 |
What Theories Do | p. 33 |
Grand Theories | p. 34 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: What Is a Mother For? | p. 40 |
Emergent Theories | p. 45 |
In Person: My Beautiful, Hairless Babies | p. 51 |
What Theories Can Contribute | p. 52 |
Heredity and Environment | p. 59 |
The Genetic Code | p. 59 |
Changing Policy: Too Many Boys? Too Many Girls? | p. 63 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: The Human Genome Project | p. 69 |
From Genotype to Phenotype | p. 70 |
Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities | p. 75 |
A Case to Study: What Do People Live to Do? | p. 81 |
Changing Policy: Decisions and Values | p. 86 |
Prenatal Development and Birth | p. 91 |
From Zygote to Newborn | p. 91 |
Risk Reduction | p. 97 |
Changing Policy: AIDS and Alcohol as Teratogens | p. 102 |
The Birth Process | p. 107 |
The First Two Years: Infants and Toddlers | p. 119 |
The First Two Years: Biosocial Development | p. 121 |
Body Changes | p. 121 |
A Case to Study: Toni's Well-Child Visit | p. 122 |
Early Brain Development | p. 125 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Plasticity and Young Orphans | p. 129 |
The Senses and Motor Skills | p. 130 |
In Person: the Normal Berger Daughters | p. 135 |
Public Health Measures | p. 136 |
The First Two Years: Cognitive Development | p. 147 |
Sensorimotor Intelligence | p. 147 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Object Permanence Revisited | p. 150 |
Information Processing | p. 154 |
Language: What Develops in Two Years? | p. 158 |
The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development | p. 171 |
A Case to Study: Parents on Autopilot | p. 172 |
Theories About Early Psychosocial Development | p. 172 |
Emotional Development | p. 178 |
The Development of Social Bonds | p. 180 |
Conclusions in Theory and Practice | p. 189 |
The Play Years | p. 195 |
The Play Years: Biosocial Development | p. 197 |
Body and Brain | p. 197 |
Motor Skills and Avoidable Injuries | p. 203 |
Changing Policy: Fences All Around the Pool | p. 207 |
Child Maltreatment | p. 208 |
A Case to Study: The Neglect of Neglect: A 2-Year-Old Boy | p. 211 |
The Play Years: Cognitive Development | p. 217 |
How Children Think: Piaget and Vygotsky | p. 217 |
Language | p. 225 |
In Person: Fast Mapping: Mommy the Brat | p. 227 |
Early-Childhood Education | p. 230 |
The Play Years: Psychosocial Development | p. 237 |
Emotional Development | p. 237 |
Parenting Patterns | p. 246 |
Boy or Girl: So What? | p. 253 |
In Person: Berger and Freud | p. 255 |
The School Years | p. 263 |
The School Years: Biosocial Development | p. 265 |
In Person: Two Children of Mexican Heritage in California | p. 266 |
A Healthy Time | p. 267 |
Brain Development | p. 271 |
Children with Special Needs | p. 276 |
A Case to Study: Billy: Dynamo or Dynamite? | p. 276 |
The School Years: Cognitive Development | p. 289 |
Building on Piaget and Vygotsky | p. 289 |
Information Processing | p. 296 |
Teaching and Learning | p. 301 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: How Does Class Size Affect Learning? | p. 302 |
The School Years: Psychosocial Development | p. 313 |
The Child's Emotions and Concerns | p. 313 |
The Peer Group | p. 317 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Intervention to Stop Bullying: Impossible? | p. 322 |
Families and Children | p. 323 |
Coping with Problems | p. 330 |
Adolescence | p. 339 |
Adolescence: Biosocial Development | p. 341 |
Puberty Begins | p. 341 |
Hazards to Health | p. 350 |
Changing Policy: Postponing Teenage Drug Experimentation | p. 358 |
Adolescence: Cognitive Development | p. 363 |
Intellectual Advances | p. 363 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Piaget's Balance Experiment | p. 364 |
Adolescent Decision Making | p. 372 |
Adolescence: Psychosocial Development | p. 385 |
The Self and Identity | p. 385 |
Sadness and Anger | p. 391 |
Family and Friends | p. 397 |
In Person: Talking to My Children About Marriage and Parenthood | p. 400 |
Conclusion | p. 406 |
Early Adulthood | p. 411 |
Early Adulthood: Biosocial Development | p. 413 |
Growth, Strength, and Health | p. 413 |
Emotional Problems in Early Adulthood | p. 423 |
A Case to Study: Julia Again: "Too Thin, As If That's Possible" | p. 425 |
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development | p. 435 |
Postformal Thought | p. 436 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Reducing Stereotype Threat | p. 442 |
Adult Moral Reasoning | p. 445 |
In Person: Faith and Tolerance | p. 449 |
Cognitive Growth and Higher Education | p. 449 |
In Person: A Dialectical View of Cheating | p. 454 |
Early Adulthood: Psychosocial Development | p. 459 |
Theories of Adulthood | p. 459 |
A Case to Study: Linda: "Her Major Issues Were Relationships and Career" | p. 461 |
Intimacy | p. 464 |
In Person: Romance and Reality: Changing Expectations | p. 474 |
Generativity | p. 476 |
A Case to Study: Linda: "A Much Sturdier Self" | p. 485 |
Middle Adulthood | p. 489 |
Middle Adulthood: Biosocial Development | p. 491 |
Primary and Secondary Aging | p. 491 |
Measuring Health | p. 498 |
Health Habits Through the Years | p. 502 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: World Health and the Tragedy of the Commons | p. 508 |
Ethnic Variations in Health | p. 509 |
Middle Adulthood: Cognitive Development | p. 519 |
What Is Intelligence? | p. 519 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Case by Case | p. 527 |
Selective Gains and Losses | p. 530 |
In Person: An Experienced Parent | p. 531 |
A Case to Study: "Men Come and Go" | p. 539 |
Middle Adulthood: Psychosocial Development | p. 543 |
Personality Throughout Adulthood | p. 543 |
Family Relationships in Midlife | p. 549 |
Work in Middle Adulthood | p. 564 |
Changing Policy: Income and Age | p. 566 |
Late Adulthood | p. 573 |
Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development | p. 575 |
Prejudice and Predictions | p. 576 |
Primary Aging in Late Adulthood | p. 583 |
Theories of Aging | p. 593 |
The Centenarians | p. 599 |
Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development | p. 605 |
Changes in Information Processing | p. 605 |
Reasons for Age-Related Changes | p. 611 |
Thinking Like a Scientist: Neuroscience and Brain Activity | p. 611 |
Dementia | p. 618 |
New Cognitive Development in Later Life | p. 625 |
Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development | p. 633 |
Theories of Late Adulthood | p. 634 |
A Case to Study: Mrs. Edwards, Doing Just Fine | p. 642 |
Keeping Active | p. 644 |
The Social Convoy | p. 649 |
The Frail Elderly | p. 656 |
Changing Policy: Between Fragile and Frail: Protective Buffers | p. 660 |
Epilogue: Death and Dying | p. 1 |
Deciding How to Die | p. 1 |
Medical Professionals | p. 2 |
Legal Preparations | p. 4 |
Preparing for Death | p. 7 |
Avoiding Despair | p. 7 |
A Case to Study: "Ask My Son and My Husband" | p. 8 |
Cultural Variations | p. 9 |
Coping with Bereavement | p. 12 |
Forms of Sorrow | p. 12 |
Contemporary Challenges | p. 14 |
Responses to Bereavement | p. 15 |
Conclusion | p. 16 |
Supplemental Charts, Graphs, and Tables | p. 1 |
More About Research Methods | p. 1 |
Suggestions for Research Assignments | p. 1 |
Glossary | p. 1 |
References | p. 1 |
Name Index | p. 1 |
Subject Index | p. 1 |
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