TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santrock,John W.
TI  - A topical approach to life-span development
SN  - 0078035503
AV  - BF713 .S257 2014
U1  - 305.2 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
KW  - Developmental psychology
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1. The Life-Span Perspective -- Section 2. Biological Processes, Physical Development,and Health -- Section 3. Cognitive Processes And Development -- Section 4. Socioemotional Processes And Development -- Section 5. Social Contexts Of Development -- Section 6. Endings -- --; Section 1; The Life-Span Perspective -- --; 1; Introduction --; The Life-Span Perspective --; The Importance of Studying Life-Span Development --; racteristics 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 Emerging Adults is Barnard --; The Significance of Age --; Connecting With ResearIs There A Best Time Of Day To Conduct Resear --; Developmental Issues --; Theories of Development --; Psyanalytic Theories --; Cognitive Theories --; Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories --; Ethological Theory --; Ecological Theory --; An Eclectic Theoretical Orientation --; Researin Life-Span Development --; Methods for Collecting Data --; ResearDesigns --; Time Span of Research --; Conducting Ethical Research --; Minimizing Bias --; Connecting With Careers Pam Reid, Educational And Development Psylogist --; ReaYour Learning Goals --; Appendix:Careers in Life-Span Development -- --; Section 2; Biological Processes, Physical Development,and Health -- --; 2; Biological Beginnings --; The Evolutionary Perspective --; Natural Selection and Adaptive Behavior --; Evolutionary Psylogy --; Genetic Foundations of Development --; The Collaborative Gene --; Genes and omosomes --; Genetic Principles --; omosomal 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 With ldren, Emerging Adults, And Adults Am I An "I" Or "We"? --; Shared and Nonshared Environmental Influences --; The Epigenetic View and Gene X Environment (G X E) Interaction --; Conclusions About Heredity-Environment Interaction --; Prenatal Development --; The Course of Prenatal Development --; Prenatal Diagnostic Tests --; Hazards to Prenatal Development --; Prenatal Care --; Connecting Development To Life A Healthy Pregnancy --; 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 --; Connecting With ResearHow Are Preterm Infants Affected By Tou --; Bonding --; The Postpartum Period --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 3; Physical Development and Biological Aging --; Body Growth and nge --; Patterns of Growth --; Height and Weight in Infancy and ldhood --; Puberty --; Early Adulthood --; Middle Adulthood --; Late Adulthood --; Connecting With Careers Sarah Kagan, Geriatric Nurse --; The Brain --; The Neuroconstructivist View --; Brain Physiology --; Infancy --; ldhood --; Adolescence --; Connecting Development To Life Strategies for Helping Adolescents Reduce Their Risk-Taking Behavior --; Adulthood and Aging --; Connecting With ResearThe Nun Study --; Sleep --; Infancy --; ldhood --; Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood --; Adulthood and Aging --; Longevity and Biological Aging --; Life Expectancy and Life Span --; Centenarians --; Connecting With Older Adults Centenarians Reflect On Their Lives --; Biological Theories of Aging --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 4; Health --; Health, Illness, and Disease --; ldren's Health --; Adolescents' Health --; Emerging and Young Adults' Health --; Health and Aging --; Connecting With ResearHow Stressful Is Caring For An Alzheimer Patient At Home? --; Nutrition and Eating Behavior --; Infancy --; ldhood --; Connecting With Careers Barbara Deloin, Pediatric Nurse --; Connecting With ldren Helping Overweight ldren Lose Weight --; Adolescence --; Adult Development and Aging --; Exercise --; ldhood and Adolescence --; Adulthood --; Connecting Development To Life Exercise --; Aging and Longevity --; Substance Use --; Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood --; Substance Use in Older Adults --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 5; Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development --; Motor Development --; The Dynamic Systems View --; Reflexes --; Gross Motor Skills --; Connecting Development To Life Parents, Coas, and ldren's Sports --; Connecting With Older Adults Preventing Falls --; Fine Motor Skills --; Sensory and Perceptual Development --; What Are Sensation and Perception? --; The Ecological View --; Connecting With ResearHow Do Scientists Study The Newborn's Perception? --; Visual Perception --; Hearing --; Other Senses --; Intermodal Perception --; Nature/Nurture and Perceptual Development --; Perceptual-Motor Coupling --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; Section 3; Cognitive Processes And Development -- --; 6; Cognitive Developmental Approas --; Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development --; Processes of Development --; Sensorimotor Stage --; Connecting With ResearHow Do Researrs Study Infants' Understanding Of Object Permanence And Causality? --; Preoperational Stage --; Concrete Operational Stage --; Formal Operational Stage --; Connecting With Adolescents 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 --; Teang Strategies --; Evaluating Vygotsky's Theory --; Connecting Development To Life Tools of the Mind --; Cognitive nges 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? --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 7; Information Processing --; The Information-Processing Approach --; The Information-Processing Approaand Its Application to Development --; Speed of Processing Information --; Attention --; What Is Attention? --; Infancy --; ldhood and Adolescence --; Adulthood --; Memory --; What Is Memory? --; Infancy --; ldhood --; Adulthood --; Connecting With ResearHow Well Do Adults Remember What They Learned In High Sol And College Spanish? --; Thinking --; What Is Thinking? --; Infancy and ldhood --; Connecting With Careers Helen Hadani, Developmental Psylogist, Toy Designer, And Lango Regional Director --; Adolescence --; Adulthood --; Connecting With Older Adults The Remarkable Helen Small --; Connecting Development To Life Cognitive Training with Older Adults --; Metacognition --; What Is Metacognition? --; Theory of Mind --; Metamemory in ldren --; Metacognition in Adolescence and Adulthood --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 8; Intelligence --; The Concept of Intelligence --; What Is Intelligence? --; Intelligence Tests --; Theories of Multiple Intelligences --; Connecting With ldren And Adults Shiffy Landa, First-Grade Tear, Describes How She Uses The Multiple-Intelligences ApproaIn Her Class --; The Neuroscience of Intelligence --; Controversies and Group Comparisons --; The Influence of Heredity and Environment --; Group Comparisons and Issues --; Connecting With ResearCan Early Intervention In The Lives Of ldren 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 nge 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 --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 9; Language Development --; What Is Language? --; Defining Language --; Language's Rule Systems --; How Language Develops --; Infancy --; Early ldhood --; Connecting With Careers Sharla Peltier, SpeeTherapist --; Connecting With ResearWhat racteristics Of A Family Affect A ld's Language Development? --; Middle and Late ldhood --; Connecting With Adults And ldren Mealtime Talk And Literacy --; Connecting With Careers Salvador Tamayo, Tear 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 --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; Section 4; Socioemotional Processes And Development -- --; 10; Emotional Development and Attaent --; Exploring Emotion --; What Are Emotions? --; Regulation of Emotion --; Emotional Competence --; Development of Emotion --; Infancy --; Early ldhood --; Middle and Late ldhood --; 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 ld's Temperament --; Attaent and Love --; Infancy and ldhood --; Connecting With Careers Wanda Mitll, ld-Care Director --; Adolescence --; Adulthood --; Connecting With Adults Is Online Dating A Good Idea? --; Connecting With ResearDoes A Romantic Relationship Breakup Present An Opportunity For Personal Growth? --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 11; The Self, Identity, and Personality --; The Self --; Self-Understanding and Understanding Others --; Connecting With Adolescents A 15-Year-Old Girl's Self-Portrait --; 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 nges --; Identity and Social Contexts --; Connecting With Careers Armando Ronquillo, High Sol Counselor --; Personality --; Trait Theories and the Big Five Factors of Personality --; Views on Adult Personality Development --; Generativity --; Stability and nge --; Connecting With ResearAre Personality Traits Related To Longevity? --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 12; Gender and Sexuality --; Biological, Social, and Cognitive Influences on Gender --; Biological Influences --; Social Influences --; Cognitive Influences --; Connecting With ResearWhat Are Young ldren's Gender Smas About Occupations? --; Gender Stereotypes, Similarities, and Differences --; Gender Stereotyping --; Gender Similarities and Differences --; Gender Development Through the Life Span --; ldhood --; Adolescence --; Adulthood and Aging --; Connecting With Careers Cynthia De Ias Fuentes, College Professor And Counseling Psylogist --; Exploring Sexuality --; Biological and Cultural Factors --; Sexual Orientation --; Sexually Transmitted Infections --; Forcible Sexual Behavior and Sexual Harassment --; Sexuality Through the Life Span --; ldhood --; Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood --; Connecting With Adolescents Sixteen-Year-Old Alberto: Wanting A Different Kind Of Life --; Connecting With Careers Lynn Blankenship, Family And Consumer Science Educator --; Connecting Development To Life Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy --; Adult Development and Aging --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 13; Moral Development, Values, and Religion --; Domains of Moral Development --; What Is Moral Development? --; Moral Thought --; Moral Behavior --; Moral Feeling --; Moral Personality --; Domain Theory --; Contexts of Moral Development --; Parenting --; Sols --; Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior --; Prosocial Behavior --; Antisocial Behavior --; Connecting With Careers Rodney Hammond, Health Psylogist --; Connecting With ResearDoes Intervention Reduce Juvenile Delinquency? --; Values, Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning in Life --; Values --; Connecting With Adolescents And Adults Nina Vasan, Finding A Path To Purpose --; Religion and Spirituality --; Connecting With Careers Gabriel Dy-Liacco, Pastoral Counselor --; Connecting Development To Life Religion And Coping --; Meaning in Life --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; Section 5; Social Contexts Of Development -- --; 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 --; Connecting With Adults Variations In Lives --; Remarried Adults --; Gay and Lesbian Adults --; Parenting --; Parental Roles --; Parenting Styles and Discipline --; Connecting With Careers Janis Keyser, Parent Educator --; Connecting With ResearAre 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 --; ldren in Divorced Families --; Stepfamilies --; Connecting Development To Life Communicating With ldren About Divorce --; Gay and Lesbian Parents --; Adoptive Parents and Adopted ldren --; Other Family Relationships --; Sibling Relationships and Birth Order --; Grandparenting and Great-Grandparenting --; Intergenerational Relationships --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 15; Peers and the Sociocultural World --; Peer Relations in ldhood and Adolescence --; Exploring Peer Relations --; Peer Statuses --; Bullying --; Connecting With ResearHow Are Perspective Taking And Moral Motivation Linked To Bullying? --; Gender and Peer Relations --; Adolescent Peer Relations --; Friendship --; Functions of Friendship --; Friendship During ldhood --; Connecting Development To Life Appropriate And Inappropriate Strategies For Making Friends --; Friendship During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood --; Connecting With Adolescents We Defined EaOther With Adjectives --; Adult Friendship --; Play and Leisure --; ldhood --; 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 --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; 16; Sols, Aevement, and Work --; Sols --; Contemporary Approas to Student Learning and Assessment --; Sols and Developmental Status --; Connecting With Careers Yolanda Garcia, Director Of ldren's Services, Head Start --; Connecting With Adolescents Tommie Lindsey --; Educating ldren with Disabilities --; Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity in Sols --; Connecting With Careers James Comer, ld Psyatrist --; Aevement --; Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation --; Mastery Motivation and Mindset --; Self-Efficacy --; Goal Setting, Planning, and Self-Monitoring --; Expectations --; Ethnicity and Culture --; Connecting With ResearWhy Do U.S. Students Underperform In Math? --; Careers, Work, and Retirement --; Career Development --; Connecting With Careers Grace Leaf, College/Career Counselor --; Work --; Connecting Development To Life Working During College --; Retirement --; ReaYour Learning Goals -- --; Section 6; Endings -- --; 17; Death, Dying, and Grieving --; The Death System and Cultural Contexts --; The Death System and Its Cultural Variations --; nging 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 --; Kiibler-Ross' Stages of Dying --; Perceived Control and Denial --; The Contexts in WhiPeople Die --; Coping with the Death of Someone Else --; Communicating with a Dying Person --; Grieving --; Connecting Development To Life Communicating With A Dying Person --; Connecting With Adults Friend Support In Grieving --; Making Sense of the World --; Losing a Life Partner --; Connecting With ResearHow Is Widowhood Related To Women's Physical And Mental Health? --; Forms of Mourning --; ReaYour Learning Goals
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