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xxv, 625 pages, 115 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm |
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Cengage advantage books |
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Cengage advantage books.
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Contents note continued: Care of the Dying in Hospitals -- Care of the Dying in Hospice Programs -- Interim Summary EP.5 -- Losing a Loved One -- Helping the Bereaved -- Interim Summary EP.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts |
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Contents note continued: Developmental Timetables -- Processes of Developmental Regulation: The Theory of Selective Optimization with Compensation -- Interim Summary 14.1 -- Love Relationships and Friendships in Young Adulthood -- Finding Love -- Attraction, Courtship, and Mate Selection -- Friendship -- Interim Summary 14.2 -- Marriage and Family in Young Adulthood -- Marrying, Cohabitating, or Remaining Single -- Marital Satisfaction -- Breakups and Divorce -- Launching a Family -- Interim Summary 14.3 -- Entering the Workforce -- Occupational Choices and Aspirations -- The Transition into the Workforce -- The Changing Nature of Work -- Challenges Facing Dual-Earner Families: Combining Work and Family -- Interim Summary 14.4 -- The Evolving Person in Young Adulthood -- Personality Development -- Self-Concept and Emotional Health -- Interim Summary 14.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- |
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Contents note continued: Drugs and the Adolescent Brain -- Interim Summary 11.4 -- How Thinking Changes In Adolescence -- Thinking About Possibilities -- Thinking About Abstract Concepts -- Thinking About Thinking -- Thinking in Multiple Dimensions -- Adolescent Relativism -- Theoretical Perspectives on Adolescent Thinking -- Interim Summary 11.5 -- Schooling and Working -- The Transition to Secondary School -- Achievement Motivation and Beliefs -- Environmental Influences on Achievement -- Ethnic Differences in Educational Achievement -- Dropping Out of High School -- Working During the School Year -- Interim Summary 11.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 12 Socioemotinal Development in Adolescence -- The Invention of Adolescence -- Interim Summary 12.1 -- Developing An Independent Identity -- Erikson's Theoretical Framework -- Determining an Adolescent's Identity Status -- |
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Contents note continued: Enhancing Cognitive Functioning in Later Life -- Lifestyle Factors -- Cognitive Interventions -- Wisdom -- Interim Summary 17.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 18 Socioemotional Development in Later Adulthood -- Developmental Tasks, TimeTables, and Processes in Later Adulthood -- Developmental Tasks -- Developmental Timetables -- Processes of Developmental Regulation -- Interim Summary 18.1 -- Social Network Involvement -- Disengagement Theory -- Activity Theory -- Socioemotional Selectivity Theory -- Interim Summary 18.2 -- Intimate Partnerships and Friendships -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Widowhood -- Remarriage, Cohabitation, and "Living Apart Together" -- Long-Term Gay and Lesbian Partnerships -- Friendships -- Interim Summary 18.3 -- Family Relationships -- Relationships with Adult Children -- Relationships with Adult Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren -- |
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Contents note continued: Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 3 Early Childhood -- ch. 7 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood -- Physical Development -- Body Growth -- Brain Development -- Motor Development -- Interim Summary 7.1 -- Physical Health and Well-Being -- Injuries and Illnesses -- Sleep and Sleep Problems -- Physiological Indicators of Stress -- Physical Abuse and Neglect -- Interim Summary 7.2 -- Piaget, Vygotsky, and Beyond -- Piaget's Theory: The Preoperational Period -- Contemporary Challenges to Piaget's Theory -- Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory -- Interim Summary 7.3 -- Other Advances in Cognitive And Language Development -- Information Processing -- Language -- Emergent Literacy -- Early Mathematical Thinking -- Interim Summary 7.4 -- Child Care And Early Education Programs -- Child-Care Quality Matters -- Effects of Different Types of Care Settings -- |
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Contents note continued: How Infants Learn Grammar -- Interim Summary 5.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 6 Socioemotional Development in Infancy -- Infants' Emotions -- Development of Emotional Expressions -- The Development of Sensitivity to Emotional Signals -- Interim Summary 6.1 -- Infant Temperament -- Measuring Infant Temperament -- Approaches to Characterizing Infant Temperament -- Does Temperament Matter? -- Context Matters -- Interim Summary 6.2 -- Attachment and Infant Social Development -- Phases of Social Development -- How Do Attachments Form? -- How Is Infant Attachment Measured? -- Parent-Child Interaction and Attachment Security -- Interim Summary 6.3 -- Parental Behavior and Interaction with Infants -- Mothers and Fathers -- Nonparental Care -- Gender and Infant Socioemotional Development -- Interim Summary 6.4 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- |
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Contents note continued: Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 16 Socioemotional Development in Middle Adulthood -- Developmental Tasks, TimeTables, and Processes in Midlife -- Developmental Tasks -- Developmental Timetables -- Processes of Developmental Regulation -- Interim Summary 16.1 -- Marriage and Friendship in Midlife -- Marital Satisfaction in Midlife -- Divorce in Midlife -- Remarriage in Midlife -- Friendship in Midlife -- Interim Summary 16.2 -- Family in Midlife: Lives Linked Across Generations -- Relationships with Adolescent Children -- Relationships with Adult Children -- Relationships with Grandchildren -- Relationships with Aging Parents -- Interim Summary 16.3 -- Work in Midlife -- Satisfaction with Work in Midlife -- Challenges of Work in Midlife -- Unemployment in Midlife -- Interim Summary 16.4 -- The Evolving Person in Midlife -- Personality Development in Midlife -- Self-Concept and Emotional Health in Midlife -- Interim Summary 16.5 -- |
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Contents note continued: Multimodal and Cross-Modal Perception -- Interim Summary 4.6 -- Experience and Early Perceptual Development -- Interim Summary 4.7 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 5 Cognitive Development in Infancy -- How Scientists Know What Babies Know -- Interim Summary 5.1 -- Piaget and Infant Cognitive Development -- Assimilation and Accommodation -- Stage Theory -- Challenges to Piaget -- Interim Summary 5.2 -- Mental Representation in Infancy -- Categorizing -- Remembering -- Playing -- Interim Summary 5.3 -- Infant "Intelligence" -- Infant Tests -- Infant Mental Development in Social Context -- Interim Summary 5.4 -- Language Development in Infancy -- Language Norms and Methods of Study -- Language Comprehension and Production -- Individual Variation in Language Development -- The Building Blocks of Language -- Making and Understanding Sounds -- How Infants Learn Words -- |
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Contents note continued: Parenting Styles and Children's Development -- Cultural Differences in Parenting -- Sibling Interactions and Relationships -- Peers -- Interim Summary 8.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 4 Middle Childhood -- ch. 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood -- Physical Development -- Body Growth -- Brain Development -- Motor Development -- Interim Summary 9.1 -- Health And Well-Being -- Unintentional Injuries -- Chronic Medical Conditions -- Interim Summary 9.2 -- Cognitive Development -- Piaget's Concrete Operational Period -- Information Processing -- Learning to Think Strategically -- Intelligence -- Interim Summary 9.3 -- Language, Literacy, and Mathematics -- Language Development -- Literacy -- Mathematics -- Interim Summary 9.4 -- Schools -- The Nation's Report Card -- International Comparisons -- No Child Left Behind (NCLB) -- |
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Contents note continued: Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Children -- Interim Summary 7.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 8 Socioemotional Development in Early Chilhood -- The Development of the Self -- Self-Conceptions and Self-Esteem -- Initiative Versus Guilt -- Internal Working Models -- Family Stories -- Interim Summary 8.1 -- Gender Development -- Gender Awareness, Identity, and Constancy -- Behavioral Differences -- Sources of Gender Differences -- Interim Summary 8.2 -- Emotional Development -- Understanding Emotions -- Regulating Emotions -- Emotions in a Cultural Context -- Interim Summary 8.3 -- Prosocial Behaviors, Conscience, And Aggression -- Prosocial Behaviors -- Early Signs of a Conscience -- Factors Associated with the Development of Conscience -- Aggression -- Interim Summary 8.4 -- Social Relationships In Early Childhood -- |
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Contents note continued: Protecting the Fetus -- Maternal Characteristics -- Outside Influences -- The Importance of Timing -- Pregnancy and Parents-to-Be -- Interim Summary 3.3 -- Birth -- Labor and Delivery -- Birth Complications and Controversies -- Newborns at Risk -- Infant Assessment -- Interim Summary 3.4 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 2 Infancy -- ch. 4 Physical Development in Infancy -- Physical Growth -- General Principles of Physical Growth -- Norms and Individual Differences -- Interim Summary 4.1 -- The Development of the Central Nervous System -- The Brain -- Brain Cells -- Cell Activity -- Brain Plasticity -- Interim Summary 4.2 -- The Autonomic Nervous System -- Interim Summary 4.3 -- Reflexes and Motor Skills -- Reflexes -- Motor Skills -- Interim Summary 4.4 -- Sensing and Perceiving -- Seeing -- Hearing -- Touching -- Tasting and Smelling -- Interim Summary 4.5 -- |
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Contents note continued: Relationships with Siblings -- Relationships with Gone Awry: Elder Abuse -- Interim Summary 18.4 -- Work and Retirement -- Attitudes Toward Retirement -- The Decision to Retire -- Adjustment to Retirement -- Developing a Post-Retirement Lifestyle -- Interim Summary 18.5 -- The Evolving Person in Later Adulthood -- Personality Development -- Emotional Health and Self-Evaluation -- Interim Summary 18.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- Epilogue Death and Dying -- Historical and Cultural Contexts of Death and Dying -- Interim Summary EP.1 -- Defining Death -- Interim Summary EP.2 -- Choices and Decisions at the End of Life -- Determining Medical Care at the End of Life: Advanced Directives -- Determining the Timing of Death: The Right to Die -- Interim Summary EP.3 -- The Experience of Dying -- Interim Summary EP.4 -- Caring for Dying Persons -- |
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Contents note continued: Strategies to Improve Student Learning and Achievement -- Interim Summary 9.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 10 Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood -- The Developing Sense of Self -- Conception of Self -- Industry Versus Inferiority -- Gender Development -- Interim Summary 10.1 -- Moral Development -- Moral Reasoning -- Prosocial Development -- Aggression -- Interim Summary 10.2 -- The Family -- Household Structure -- Two-Parent and One-Parent Households -- Other Postmodern Families -- The Family System -- Interim Summary 10.3 -- Peers -- Friendships -- Peer Groups -- Networks and Cliques -- Bullies and Victims -- Interim Summary 10.4 -- The Broader Social Context -- Organized Activities -- Afterschool Programs -- Time Without Adult Supervision -- Neighborhoods -- Media: Television, Video Games, and Computers -- Interim Summary 10.5 -- |
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Contents note continued: Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 5 Adolescence -- ch. 11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence -- Puberty and Its Consequences -- The Endocrine System -- Changes in Height, Weight, and Appearance -- The Psychological and Social Impact of Puberty -- Early and Late Maturation -- Eating Disorders -- Interim Summary 11.1 -- Sexual Activity During Adolescence -- Stages of Sexual Activity -- Sexual Intercourse During Adolescence -- Contraceptive Use -- Sex Education -- Teenage Pregnancy -- Interim Summary 11.2 -- Substance Use and Abuse In Adolescence -- Prevalence of Substance Use and Abuse in Adolescence -- Causes and Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse -- Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use and Abuse -- Interim Summary 11.3 -- The Adolescent Brain -- Brain Maturation in Adolescence -- Implications for Adolescent Behavior -- |
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Contents note continued: Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 8 Later Adulthood -- ch. 17 Physical and Cognitive Development in Later Adulthood -- Later Adulthood: The Newest Life Period -- Life Expectancy -- Maximum Lifespan -- Interim Summary 17.1 -- Biological Theories of Aging -- Programmed Theories of Aging -- Evolutionary Theories of Aging -- Random Damage Theories of Aging -- Genes and Longevity -- Interim Summary 17.2 -- Physical Development -- Appearance and Body Build -- Mobility and Strength -- Sensory Systems -- Vital Organ Systems -- Bodily Control Systems -- Sexual Functioning -- Interim Summary 17.3 -- Physical Health -- Common Health Conditions -- Self-Rated Health -- Mortality -- Quantity Versus Quality of Life -- Interim Summary 17.4 -- Cognitive Development -- Normal Changes in Memory -- Pathological Changes in Memory -- Interim Summary 17.5 -- |
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Contents note continued: The Development of Ethnic Identity -- Changes in Self-Esteem -- Interim Summary 12.2 -- Family Relationships in Adolescence -- Adolescents' Relationships with Parents -- Adolescents' Relationships with Siblings -- Interim Summary 12.3 -- Peer Relationships in Adolescence -- Cliques and Crowds -- Responding to Peer Pressure -- Popularity and Rejection in Adolescent Peer Groups -- Sex Differences in Adolescents' Friendships -- Dating and Romantic Relationships -- Interim Summary 12.4 -- Socioemotional Problems in Adolescence -- Some General Observations About Problems in Adolescence -- Externalizing Problems -- Internalizing Problems -- Interim Summary 12.5 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- pt. 6 Young Adulthood -- ch. 13 Physical and Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood -- Perspectives on Adulthood -- Guiding Principles and Assumptions -- |
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Contents note continued: The Three Major Periods of Adulthood -- Interim Summary 13.1 -- The Transition to Adulthood -- Markers and Meanings of Adulthood -- The Longer Transition to Adulthood -- Interim Summary 13.2 -- Physical Development and Health -- Physical Functioning -- Physical Health -- Interim Summary 13.3 -- Sexual And Reproductive Functioning -- Sexual Attitudes and Behavior -- Sexual Risk Behavior -- Reproductive Functioning -- Interim Summary 13.4 -- Cognitive Development -- New Ways of Thinking -- Everyday Problem Solving -- Moral Development -- Interim Summary 13.5 -- Cognitive Development in Context -- Higher Education -- Work -- Responsibility for Others -- Interim Summary 13.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 14 Socioemotional Development in Young Adulthood -- Developmental Tasks, Timetables, and Processes in Young Adulthood -- Developmental Tasks -- |
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Contents note continued: What are Genes, and What do They Do? -- Becoming Human -- Human Diversity -- Interim Summary 2.2 -- The Importance of Context -- The Ecological Perspective on Development -- Microsystems -- The Mesosystem -- The Exosystem -- The Macrosystem -- Interim Summary 2.3 -- The Interplay Between Genes and Context -- Environmental Effects on Gene Expression -- Environmental Effects on Heritability -- Gene-Environment Interaction -- Gene-Enviroment Correlation -- Interim Summary 2.4 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 3 Conception, Prenatal Development, and Birth -- The First 9 Months -- Conception and the Zygote: The First 2 Weeks -- The Embryo: Weeks 2 Through 8 -- The Fetus: Week 8 to Birth -- Boy or Girl? -- Interim Summary 3.1 -- Evaluating Prenatal Development -- Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities -- Genetic Counseling -- Prenatal Testing -- Interim Summary 3.2 -- |
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Contents note continued: pt. 7 Middle Adulthood -- ch. 15 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood -- Middle Adulthood: The Least Studied Life Period -- The Baby Boomers -- Variability in Middle Adulthood -- Interim Summary 15.1 -- Physical Development -- Appearance -- Body Build -- Mobility and Strength -- Sensory Systems -- Vital Organ Systems -- Interim Summary 15.2 -- Reproductive and Sexual Functioning -- Reproductive Changes in Women -- Reproductive Changes in Men -- Sexual Activity -- Interim Summary 15.3 -- Physical Health -- Health Conditions -- Self-Rated Health -- Influences on Health in Middle Adulthood -- Stress and Health -- Interim Summary 15.4 -- Cognitive Development -- Intelligence -- Expertise -- Creativity -- Interim Summary 15.5 -- Cognitive Development in Context -- Influence of Work on Cognition -- Influence of Cognition on Work -- Interim Summary 15.6 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Foundations -- ch. 1 The Study of Human Development -- What Lies Ahead? -- Why Study Development? -- The Goals of Developmental Research -- Defining Development -- Basic Questions -- Guiding Principles -- Interim Summary 1.1 -- Theories of Development -- Classical Theories -- Contemporary Theories -- Interim Summary 1.2 -- The Scientific Study of Development -- The Scientific Method -- Research Methods -- Research Design -- Studying Change over Time -- Research Ethics -- Interim Summary 1.3 -- Developmental Science in the Real World -- Interim Summary 1.4 -- Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Here's What You Should Know -- Did You Get It? -- Important Terms and Concepts -- ch. 2 Nature with Nurture -- Perspectives on Nature and Nurture -- Development Is Driven by Nature -- Development Is Driven by Nature -- Development Is Part Nature, Part Nurture -- Development Results from the Interplay of Nature and Nurture -- Interim Summary 2.1 -- |
| Summary |
Written by respected child, adolescent, and adulthood development experts, this authoritative and chronologically organised text presents an intergrated perspective on lifespan development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Developmental psychology.
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Life cycle, Human.
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| Author |
Bornstein, Marc H., author
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Rook, Karen S., author
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Vandell, Deborah, author
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| ISBN |
0495911615 (paperback) |
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0618721568 (hbk.) |
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9780495911616 (paperback) |
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9780618721566 (hbk.) |
