A topical approach to life-span development /
John W. Santrock.
- 3rd edition
- Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
- 1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Section 1: The life-span perspective 1.Introduction
Section 2: Biological processes, physical development, and health 2. Biological beginnings 3. Physical development and biological aging 4. Health 5. Motor, sensory, and perceptual development
Section 3: Cognitive processes and development 6. Cognitive development approaches 7. Information processing 8. Intelligence 9. Language development
Section 4: socioemotional processes and development 10. Emotional development 11.The self, identity, and personality 12.Gender and sexuality 13. Moral development, values, and religion
Section 5: social contexts of development 14. Families, lifestyles, and parenting 15. Peers and the sociocultural world 16. Schools, achievement, and work