The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1
Cognition, Biology, and Methods
Published on 20. December 2010
1008 pages
978-0-470-63435-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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1. Auflage
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English
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John Wiley & Sons
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6,38 MB
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978-0-470-63435-6 (9780470634356)
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Richard M. Lerner | Willis F. Overton
The Handbook of Life-Span Development
Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods
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Persons
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.
Content
Preface (Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University).
Contributors.
1 Life Span: Concepts and Issues (Willis F. Overton, TempleUniversity).
2 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study ofDevelopment Over the Life Span (John R. Nesselroade, TheUniversity of Virginia; Peter C. M. Molenaar, The PennsylvaniaState University).
3 What Life-Span Data Do We Really Need? (John J. McArdle,University of Southern California).
4 Brain Development: An Overview (Philip David Zelazo andWendy S. C. Lee, University Minnesota).
5 Biology, Evolution and Psychological Development (GaryGreenberg, Wichita State University; Ty Partridge, Wayne StateUniversity).
6 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting Overthe Life Span (Michael F. Mascalo, Merrimack College; Kurt W.Fischer, Harvard University).
7 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development(Ellen Bialystok, York University, Fergus I. M. Craik, RotmanResearch Institute).
8 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: ALife-Span Neuroscience Perspective (Clancy Blair, New YorkUniversity).
9 Memory Development Across the Life Span (Peter A. Ornstein,University of North Carolina; Leah L. Light, PitzerCollege).
10 The Development of Mental Processing (Andreas Demetriou,University of Cyprus; Antigoni Mouyi, Pedagogical Institute ofCyprus; George Spanoudis, University of Cyprus).
11 The Development of Representation and Concepts (UlrichMüller, University of Victoria; Timothy P. Racine, SimonFraser University).
12 Development of Deductive Reasoning Across the Life Span(Robert B. Ricco, California State University at SanBernardino).
13 Development of Executive Function Across the Life Span(Sophie Jacques, Dalhousie University; Stuart Marcovitch,University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
14 Language Development (Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie MellonUniversity).
15 Self-Regulation: The Integration of Cognition and Emotion(Megan M. McClelland, Oregon State University; Claire CameronPonitz, University of Virginia; Emily E. Messersmith, University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill; Shauna Tominey, Oregon StateUniversity).
16 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, andResistance (Elliot Turiel, University of California,Berkeley).
17 The Development of Social Understanding: A RelationalPerspective (Jeremy I. M. Carpendale, Simon Fraser University;Charlie Lewis, Lancaster University).
18 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in HumanDevelopment (Michael Lewis, UMDNJ--Robert Wood JohnsonMedical School).
19 The Development of Knowing (Michael J. Chandler and SusanA. J. Birch, The University of British Columbia).
20 Spatial Development (Marina Vasilyeva, Boston College;Stella F. Lourenco, Emory University).
21 Gesturing Across the Life Span (Susan Goldin-Meadow,University of Chicago; Jana M. Iverson, University ofPittsburgh).
22 Developmental Psychopathology - Self, Embodiment,Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective (SebastianoSantostefano, Private Practice, Boston, MA).
23 The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life(Tzur M. Karelitz, Education Development Center, Inc., Newton,MA; Linda Jarvin and Robert J. Sternberg, TuftsUniversity).
24 Thriving Across the Life Span (Matthew J. Bundick, WilliamDamon and David S. Yeager, Stanford University; Pamela EbstyneKing, Fuller Theological Seminary).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
