The Developing Person Through the Life Span
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With its new edition, the text becomes a more deeply integrated text/media resource than ever, with the book and its dedicated version of LaunchPad combining seamlessly to enhance the learning experience. But driving that experience, as always, is the clear, engaging voice of Kathleen Berger, revealing the connections between the study of development across all stages of life and the lives that students actually live.
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PART I The Beginnings
1. The Science of Human Development
2. Theories of Development
3. Heredity and Environment
4. Prenatal Development and Birth
PART II The First Two Years
5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development
PART III Early Childhood
8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development
PART IV Middle Childhood
11. Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
12. Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development.
13. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development.
PART V Adolescence
14. Adolescence: Biosocial Development
15. Adolescence: Cognitive Development
16. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
PART VI Emerging Adulthood
17. Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial Development
18. Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development
19. Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
PART VII Adulthood
20 Adulthood: Biosocial Development
21. Adulthood: Cognitive Development
22. Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
PART VIII Late Adulthood
23. Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development
24. Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
25. Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Epilogue Death and Dying
Appendix: More about Research Methods.