A Child's World: Infancy Through Adolescence - Brossura

Papalia, Diane; Feldman, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 0071283277 ISBN 13: 9780071283274

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

This fully-revised eleventh edition continues to provide the extensive cross-cultural and multicultural coverage, the innovative pedagogical learning system, and the balance between research and real-life applications that have made A Child's World a favorite of students and professors alike. In the warmly-written and engaging style that has become their hallmark, Diane Papalia and Ruth Feldman continue to provide a chronological view of child development; the new edition expands the coverage of cultural and historical influences on development, highlights the latest research in cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary theory, and a new and improved Visual Assets Database for instructors.

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L'autore:

As a professor, Diane E. Papalia has taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her bachelors degree, majoring in psychology, from Vassar College and both her masters degree in child development and family relations and her Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology from West Virginia University. She has published numerous articles in such professional journals as Human Development, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Sex Roles, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Journal of Gerontology. Most of these papers have dealt with her major research focus, cognitive development from childhood through old age.

Contenuti:

1: Studying A Child's World
2: A Child's World: How We Discover It
3: Forming a New Life: Conception, Heredity, and Environment
4: Pregnancy and Prenatal Development
5: Birth and the Newborn Baby
6: Physical Development and Health During the First Three Years
7: Cognitive Development during the First Three Years
8: Psychosocial Development during the First Three Years
9: Physical Development and Health in Early Childhood
10: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
11: Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood
12: Physical Development and Health in Middle Childhood
13: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
14: Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
15: Physical Development and Health in Adolescence
16: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
17: Psychosocial Development in Adolescence

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071283277
• ISBN 13: 9780071283274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672