Berger, Kathleen Stassen,

The developing person through childhood and adolescence / Kathleen Stassen Berger, Bronx Community College, City University of New York. - Tenth edition. - Various pagings : illustrations (chiefly colour), charts, photographs ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theories -- 3. Heredity and Environment -- 4. Prenatal Development and Birth -- 5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development -- 6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development -- 7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development -- 8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development -- 9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development -- 10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development -- 11. Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development -- 12. Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development -- 13. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development -- 14. Adolescence: Biosocial Development -- 15. Adolescence: Cognitive Development -- 16. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development -- Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood -- Appendix: Research Methods.

"Exceptional in its currency, global in its cultural reach, Kathleen Berger’s portrait of the scientific investigation of childhood and adolescent development helps bring an evolving field into the evolving classroom. Guided by Berger’s clear, inviting authorial voice, and page after page of fascinating examples from cultures around the world, students see how classic and current research, and the lives of real people, shape the field’s core theories and concept." --Publisher's website.

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Developmental psychology
Child development.
Adolescence.

RJ131 / .B385 2015

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