Handbook of Life-Span Development Vol. 1 : Cognition, Biology, and Methods

by Lerner, Richard M.; Overton, Willis F.

• ISBN13: 9780470390115
• ISBN10: 0470390115
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-02
• Publisher: Wiley

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.

Author Biography

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters.

Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals.

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 Ulrich Müller University of Victoria

The Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span

Development of Executive Function across the Life Span Sophie Jacques Dalhousie University

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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