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Life-Span Human Development
About this book
Known for its clear, straightforward writing style, grounding in current research, and well-chosen visuals and examples, Sigelman and Rider's text combines a topical organization at the chapter level and an age/stage organization within each chapter. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Each chapter also includes sections on infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The organization helps you grasp key transformations that occur in each period of the life span. Other staples of the text are its emphasis on theories and their application to different aspects of development and its focus on the interplay of nature and nurture in development. This edition includes new research on biological and sociocultural influences on life-span development and offers new media resources that help you engage more actively with the content.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: Understanding Life-Span Human Development
- Chapter 2: Theories of Human Development
- Chapter 3: Genes, Environment, and Development
- Chapter 4: Prenatal Development and Birth
- Chapter 5: Body, Brain, and Health
- Chapter 6: Sensation, Perception, and Action
- Chapter 7: Cognition
- Chapter 8: Memory and Information Processing
- Chapter 9: Intelligence and Creativity
- Chapter 10: Language and Education
- Chapter 11: Self and Personality
- Chapter 12: Gender Roles and Sexuality
- Chapter 13: Social Cognition and Moral Development
- Chapter 14: Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships
- Chapter 15: The Family
- Chapter 16: Developmental Psychopathology
- Chapter 17: The Final Challenge: Death and Dying
- Appendix Careers in Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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