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Uniform Title Handbook of life-span development (Springer Publishing Company : 2010)
Title Handbook of life-span development / Karen L. Fingerman, PhD, Cynthia A. Berg, PhD, Jacqui Smith, PhD, Toni C. Antonucci, PhD, editors
Published New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 905 pages) : illustrations
Contents Section 1. Theory and overviews -- section 2. Physical and cognitive -- section 3. Socioemotional -- section 4. Contexts of development
Summary The doubling of our average life span since the turn of the 20th century is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important changes in human existence. This definitive text is the only volume to fully address, through a multidisciplinary perspective, the biological, cognitive, and psychological development that occurs from infancy through old age, and how the sociocultural and institutional factors interface with these changes. Edited by leading research scholars in the field of life-span development, the volume also includes contributions of specialists in behavioral genetics, soc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Nov. 16, 2011)
Subject Developmental psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Developmental psychobiology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Human Development
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Developmental psychobiology
Developmental psychology
Lebenslauf
Entwicklungspsychologie
Lebenslauf.
Entwicklungspsychologie.
Utvecklingspsykologi.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Fingerman, Karen L., editor.
Berg, Cynthia A., editor.
Smith, Jacqui (Professor of psychology), editor.
Antonucci, Toni C., 1948- editor.
LC no. 2010031923
ISBN 0826110800
9780826110800
1283316986
9781283316989
9786613316981
6613316989
Other Titles Life-span development
Handbook of lifespan development