Exploring Lifespan Development

by Berk, Laura E.

• ISBN13: 9780205522682
• ISBN10: 0205522688
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780205748594
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Berkrs"s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the textrs"s "characters" who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones at different periods of the lifespan. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of the most essential topics of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains-physical, cognitive, emotional, and social-throughout the text narrative and in special features. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest and their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.History, Theory, and Research Strategies; Biological and Environmental Foundations of Development; Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn; Physical Development in Infancy, Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood and Late Adulthood; Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood and Late Adulthood; Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood and Late Adulthood; and Death, Dying and Bereavement. Lifespan Development

Table of Contents

Theory And Research In Human Development

History, Theory, and Research

Strategies Human Development as a Scientific, Applied, and Interdisciplinary Field Basic Issues

The Lifespan Perspective: A Balanced Point of View Scientific Beginnings

Mid-Twentieth-Century Theories Recent

Theoretical Perspectives Comparing

Theories Studying Development

Ethics in Lifespan Research

Foundations Of Development

Biological and Environmental Foundations

Genetic Foundations

Reproductive Choices

Environmental Contexts for Development

Understanding the Relationship Between Heredity and Environment

Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn Baby

Prenatal Development Prenatal

Environmental Influences Childbirth

Approaches to Childbirth

Medical Interventions Preterm and Low-Birth-Weight

Infants Birth Complications, Parenting, and Resilience

The Newborn Baby's Capacities Adjusting to the New Family Unit

Infancy And Toddlerhood: The First Two Years

Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Body Growth Brain Development Influences on Early

Physical Growth Learning Capacities Motor Development Perceptual Development

Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental

Theory Information Processing

The Social Context of Early Mental

Development Individual Differences in Early

Mental Development Language Development

Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Erikson's Theory of Infant and Toddler

Personality Emotional Development

Temperament and Development

Development of Attachment Self-Development

During the First Two Years

Early Childhood: Two To Six Years

Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Physical Development Body Growth Brain

Development Influences on Physical

Growth and Health Motor Development

Cognitive Development Piaget's

Theory: The Preoperational Stage Vygotsky's Sociocultural

Theory Information Processing

Individual Differences in Mental

Development Language Development

Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood

Erikson's Theory: Initiative versus

Guilt Self-Understanding

Emotional Development Peer Relations

Foundations of Morality Gender

Typing Child Rearing and Emotional and Social Development

Middle Childhood: Six To Eleven Years

Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Physical Development Body Growth

Health Issues Motor Development and Play

Cognitive Development Piaget's

Theory: The Concrete Operational Stage

Information Processing Individual

Differences in Mental Development

Language Development Learning in School

Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood

Erikson's Theory: Industry versus Inferiority

Self-Understanding Emotional Development

Understanding Others: Perspective Taking

Moral Development Peer Relations

Gender Typing Family Influences Some

Common Problems of Development

Adolescence: The Transition To Adulthood

Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Physical Development

Conceptions of Adolescence Puberty

The Physical Transition to Adulthood

The Psychological Impact of Pubertal

Events Health Issues

Cognitive Development Piaget's Theory

The Formal Operational Stage An Information-Processing

View of Adolescent Cognitive Development

Consequences of Adolescent Co

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