Santrock, John W.

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

Section 6: Endings
17. Death and grieving.

9780073133768 (alk. paper) 0073133760 (alk. paper)


Developmental psychology--Textbooks.

BF 713 S237t 2007