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A topical approach to life-span development / John W. Santrock, University of Texas at Dallas

Author
Santrock, John W.
Published
New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
Eighth edition.
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1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

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Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE -- ch. 1 Introduction -- The Life-Span Perspective -- The Importance of Studying Life-Span Development -- Characteristics of the Life-Span Perspective -- Some Contemporary Concerns -- Connecting Development to Life Improving Family Policy -- The Nature of Development -- Biological, Cognitive, and Socioemotional Processes -- Periods of Development -- Connecting With Research Is There a Best Time of Day to Conduct Research? -- The Significance of Age -- Developmental Issues -- Theories of Development -- Psychoanalytic Theories -- Cognitive Theories -- Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories -- Ethological Theory -- Ecological Theory -- An Eclectic Theoretical Orientation -- Research on Life-Span Development -- Methods for Collecting Data -- Research Designs -- Time Span of Research -- Conducting Ethical Research -- Minimizing Bias -- Connecting With Careers Pam Reid, Educational and Development Psychologist -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- Appendix: Careers in Life-Span Development -- SECTION 2 BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND HEALTH -- ch. 2 Biological Beginnings -- The Evolutionary Perspective -- Natural Selection and Adaptive Behavior -- Evolutionary Psychology -- Genetic Foundations of Development -- The Collaborative Gene -- Genes and Chromosomes -- Genetic Principles -- Chromosomal and Gene-Linked Abnormalities -- Connecting With Careers Holly Ishmael, Genetic Counselor -- Heredity and Environment Interaction: The Nature-Nurture Debate -- Behavior Genetics -- Heredity-Environment Correlations -- Connecting Development to Life Am I an "I" or "We"? -- Shared and Nonshared Environmental Influences -- The Epigenetic View and Gene [×] Environment (G [×] E) Interaction -- Conclusions About Heredity-Environment Interaction -- Prenatal Development -- The Course of Prenatal Development -- Prenatal Diagnostic Tests -- Hazards to Prenatal Development -- Prenatal Care -- Birth and the Postpartum Period -- The Birth Process -- The Transition from Fetus to Newborn -- Connecting With Careers Linda Pugh, Perinatal Nurse -- Low Birth Weight and Preterm Infants -- Bonding -- Connecting With Research How Are Preterm Infants Affected by Touch? -- The Postpartum Period -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 3 Physical Development and Biological Aging -- Body Growth and Change -- Patterns of Growth -- Height and Weight in Infancy and Childhood -- Puberty -- Early Adulthood -- Middle Adulthood -- Late Adulthood -- Connecting With Careers Sarah Kagan, Geriatric Nurse -- The Brain -- The Neuroconstructivist View -- Brain Physiology -- Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Connecting Development to Life Strategies for Helping Adolescents Reduce Their Risk-Taking Behavior -- Adulthood and Aging -- Connecting With Research The Nun Study -- Sleep -- Why Do We Sleep? -- Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood -- Adulthood and Aging -- Longevity and Biological Aging -- Life Expectancy and Life Span -- Centenarians -- Biological Theories of Aging -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 4 Health -- Health, Illness, and Disease -- Children's Health -- Adolescents' Health -- Emerging and Young Adults' Health -- Health and Aging -- Connecting With Research How Stressful Is Caring for an Alzheimer Patient at Home? -- Nutrition and Eating Behavior -- Infancy -- Childhood -- Connecting With Careers Barbara Deloin, Pediatric Nurse -- Connecting Development to Life Helping Overweight Children Lose Weight -- Adolescence -- Adult Development and Aging -- Exercise -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Aging and Longevity -- Substance Use -- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood -- Substance Use in Older Adults -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 5 Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development -- Motor Development -- The Dynamic Systems View -- Reflexes -- Gross Motor Skills -- Connecting Development to Life Parents, Coaches, and Children's Sports -- Fine Motor Skills -- Sensory and Perceptual Development -- What Are Sensation and Perception? -- The Ecological View -- Visual Perception -- Connecting With Research How Do Scientists Study the Newborn's Perception? -- Hearing -- Other Senses -- Intermodal Perception -- Nature/Nurture and Perceptual Development -- Perceptual-Motor Coupling -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- SECTION 3 COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT -- ch. 6 Cognitive Developmental Approaches -- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development -- Processes of Development -- Sensorimotor Stage -- Connecting With Research How Do Researchers Study Infants' Understanding of Object Permanence and Causality? -- Preoperational Stage -- Concrete Operational Stage -- Formal Operational Stage -- Connecting Development to Life Are Social Media an Amplification Tool for Adolescent Egocentrism? -- Applying and Evaluating Piaget's Theory -- Piaget and Education -- Evaluating Piaget's Theory -- Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development -- The Zone of Proximal Development -- Scaffolding -- Language and Thought -- Teaching Strategies -- Evaluating Vygotsky's Theory -- Cognitive Changes in Adulthood -- Piaget's View -- Realistic and Pragmatic Thinking -- Reflective and Relativistic Thinking -- Cognition and Emotion -- Is There a Fifth, Postformal Stage? -- Are There Cognitive Stages in Middle and Late Adulthood? -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 7 Information Processing -- The Information-Processing Approach -- The Information-Processing Approach and Its Application to Development -- Speed of Processing Information -- Attention -- What Is Attention? -- Infancy -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Memory -- What Is Memory? -- Infancy -- Childhood -- Adulthood -- Connecting With Research How Well Do Adults Remember What They Learned in High School and College Spanish? -- Thinking -- What Is Thinking? -- Infancy and Childhood -- Connecting With Careers Helen Hadani, Ph.D., Developmental Psychologist, Toy Designer, and Associate Director of Research for the Center for Childhood Creativity -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Connecting Development to Life The Remarkable Helen Small -- Metacognition -- What Is Metacognition? -- Theory of Mind -- Metacognition in Adolescence and Adulthood -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 8 Intelligence -- The Concept of Intelligence -- What Is Intelligence? -- Intelligence Tests -- Theories of Multiple Intelligences -- The Neuroscience of Intelligence -- Controversies and Group Comparisons -- The Influence of Heredity and Environment -- Group Comparisons and Issues -- Connecting With Research Can Early Intervention in the Lives of Children Growing Up in Impoverished Circumstances Improve Their Intelligence? -- The Development of Intelligence -- Tests of Infant Intelligence -- Connecting With Careers Toosje Thyssen Van Beveren, Infant Assessment Specialist -- Stability and Change in Intelligence Through Adolescence -- Intelligence in Adulthood -- The Extremes of Intelligence and Creativity -- Intellectual Disability -- Giftedness -- Creativity -- Connecting Development to Life Living a More Creative Life -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 9 Language Development -- What Is Language? -- Defining Language -- Language's Rule Systems -- How Language Develops -- Infancy -- Early Childhood -- Connecting With Careers Sharla Peltier, Speech Therapist -- Connecting With Research What Characteristics of a Family Affect a Child's Language Development? -- Middle and Late Childhood -- Connecting With Careers Salvador Tamayo, Teacher of English Language Learners -- Adolescence -- Adulthood and Aging -- Biological and Environmental Influences -- Biological Influences -- Environmental Influences -- An Interactionist View of Language -- Connecting Development to Life: How Parents Can Facilitate Infants' and Toddlers' Language Development -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- SECTION 4 SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT -- ch. 10 Emotional Development and Attachment -- Exploring Emotion -- What Are Emotions? -- Emotion Regulation -- Emotional Competence -- Development of Emotion -- Infancy -- Early Childhood -- Middle and Late Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adult Development and Aging -- Temperament -- Describing and Classifying Temperament -- Biological Foundations and Experience -- Goodness of Fit and Parenting -- Connecting Development to Life Parenting and the Child's Temperament -- Attachment and Love -- Infancy and Childhood -- Connecting With Careers Wanda Mitchell, Child-Care Director -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Connecting With Research Does the Breakup of a Romantic Relationship Present an Opportunity for Personal Growth? -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 11 The Self, Identity, and Personality -- The Self -- Self-Understanding and Understanding Others -- Self-Esteem and Self-Concept -- Self-Regulation -- Connecting Development to Life Strategies for Effectively Engaging in Selective Optimization with Compensation -- Identity -- What Is Identity? -- Erikson's View -- Some Contemporary Thoughts on Identity -- Developmental Changes -- Identity and Social Contexts -- Connecting With Careers Armando Ronquillo, High School Counselor -- Personality -- Trait Theories and the Big Five Factors of Personality -- Views on Adult Personality Development -- Generativity -- Stability and Change -- Connecting With Research Are Personality Traits Related to Longevity? -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 12 Gender and Sexuality -- Biological, Social, and Cognitive Influences on Gender -- Biological Influences -- Social Influences -- Cognitive Influences -- Connecting With Research What Are Young Children's Gender Schemas About Occupations? -- Gender Stereotypes, Similarities, and Differences -- Gender Stereotyping -- Gender Similarities and Differences -- Gender Development Through the Life Span -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood and Aging -- and Contents note continued: Connecting With Careers Cynthia de las Fuentes, College Professor and Counseling Psychologist -- Exploring Sexuality -- Biological and Cultural Factors -- Sexual Orientation -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Forcible Sexual Behavior and Sexual Harassment -- Sexuality Through the Life Span -- Childhood -- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood -- Connecting With Careers Lynn Blankinship, Family and Consumer Science Educator -- Connecting Development to Life Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy -- Adult Development and Aging -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 13 Moral Development, Values, and Religion -- Domains of Moral Development -- What Is Moral Development? -- Moral Thought -- Moral Behavior -- Moral Feeling -- Moral Personality -- Social Domain Theory -- Contexts of Moral Development -- Parenting -- Schools -- Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior -- Prosocial Behavior -- Antisocial Behavior -- Connecting With Careers Rodney Hammond, Health Psychologist -- Connecting With Research Does Intervention Reduce Juvenile Delinquency? -- Values, Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning in Life -- Values -- Religion and Spirituality -- Connecting With Careers Gabriel Dy-Liacco, Pastoral Counselor -- Connecting Development to Life Religion and Coping -- Meaning in Life -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- SECTION 5 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT -- ch. 14 Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting -- Family Processes -- Reciprocal Socialization -- Family as a System -- Sociocultural and Historical Influences -- Multiple Developmental Trajectories -- The Diversity of Adult Lifestyles -- Single Adults -- Cohabiting Adults -- Married Adults -- Divorced Adults -- Remarried Adults -- Gay and Lesbian Adults -- Parenting -- Parental Roles -- Parenting Styles and Discipline -- Connecting With Careers Janis Keyser, Parent Educator -- Connecting With Research Are Marital Conflict, Individual Hostility, and the Use of Physical Punishment Linked? -- Connecting With Careers Darla Botkin, Marriage and Family Therapist -- Parent-Adolescent and Parent-Emerging Adult Relationships -- Working Parents -- Children in Divorced Families -- Stepfamilies -- Connecting Development to Life Communicating with Children About Divorce -- Gay and Lesbian Parents -- Adoptive Parents and Adopted Children -- Other Family Relationships -- Sibling Relationships and Birth Order -- Grandparenting and Great-Grandparenting -- Intergenerational Relationships -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 15 Peers and the Sociocultural World -- Peer Relations in Childhood and Adolescence -- Exploring Peer Relations -- Peer Statuses -- Bullying -- Connecting With Research How Are Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation Linked to Bullying? -- Gender and Peer Relations -- Adolescent Peer Relations -- Friendship -- Functions of Friendship -- Friendship During Childhood -- Friendship During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood -- Connecting Development to Life Effective and Ineffective Strategies for Making Friends -- Adult Friendship -- Play and Leisure -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Aging and the Social World -- Social Theories of Aging -- Stereotyping of Older Adults -- Social Support and Social Integration -- Successful Aging -- Sociocultural Influences -- Culture -- Socioeconomic Status and Poverty -- Ethnicity -- Connecting With Careers Norma Thomas, Social Work Professor and Administrator -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- ch. 16 Schools, Achievement, and Work -- Schools -- Contemporary Approaches to Student Learning and Assessment -- Schools and Developmental Status -- Connecting With Careers Yolanda Garcia, Director of Children's Services, Head Start -- Educating Children with Disabilities -- Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity in Schools -- Connecting With Careers James Comer, Child Psychiatrist -- Achievement -- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation -- Mastery Motivation and Mindset -- Self-Efficacy -- Goal Setting, Planning, and Self-Monitoring -- Expectations -- Ethnicity and Culture -- Connecting With Research Parenting and Children's Achievement: My Child Is My Report Card, Tiger Moms, and Tiger Babies Strike Back -- Careers, Work, and Retirement -- Career Development -- Work -- Connecting With Careers Grace Leaf, College/Career Counselor and College Administrator -- Connecting Development to Life Working During College -- Retirement -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- SECTION 6 ENDINGS -- ch. 17 Death, Dying, and Grieving -- The Death System and Cultural Contexts -- The Death System and Its Cultural Variations -- Changing Historical Circumstances -- Defining Death and Life/Death Issues -- Issues in Determining Death -- Decisions Regarding Life, Death, and Health Care -- Connecting With Careers Kathy McLaughlin, Home Hospice Nurse -- A Developmental Perspective on Death -- Causes of Death -- Attitudes Toward Death at Different Points in the Life Span -- Suicide -- Facing One's Own Death -- Kubler-Ross' Stages of Dying -- Perceived Control and Denial -- The Contexts in Which People Die -- Coping with the Death of Someone Else -- Communicating with a Dying Person -- Grieving -- Connecting Development to Life Communicating with a Dying Person -- Making Sense of the World -- Losing a Life Partner -- Connecting With Research How Is Widowhood Related to Women's Physical and Mental Health ? -- Forms of Mourning -- Reach Your Learning Goals -- Connect McGraw-Hill Education Psychology APA Documentation Style Guide.
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007786199X (alk. paper)
9780077861995 (alk. paper)
1259252701
9781259252709
1308782276 (loose-leaf)
9781308782270 (loose-leaf)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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