Child Development: An Introduction - Rilegato

Santrock, John

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ISBN 10: 0072967439 ISBN 13: 9780072967432

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Riassunto

John Santrock’s Child Development is widely considered the most accurate and up-to-date, topically-organized text in the field. Used by hundreds of thousands of students over ten editions, its learning-goals-driven learning system provides a clearer understanding of the content. The fully revised eleventh edition reinforces the highly contemporary tone and focus by featuring hundreds of new citations, including material from chapters from the sixth edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology .

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L'autore:

John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the University of Charleston, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology at the undergraduate level. In 2006, Dr. Santrock received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in Teaching Award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology on the contextual aspects of affectively toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He has been on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 13th Edition; Life-Span Development, 14th Edition; Adolescence, 14th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.

Contenuti:

Section 1: The Nature of Child Development

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Science of Child Development

Section 2: Biologial Processes, Physical Development, and Perceptual Development

Chapter 3: Biological Beginnings

Chapter 4: Prenatal Development and Birth

Chapter 5: Physical Development and Health

Chapter 6: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development

Section 3: Cognition and Language

Chapter 7: Cognitive Development Approaches

Chapter 8: Information Processing

Chapter 9: Intelligence

Chapter 10: Language Development

Section 4: Socioemotional Development

Chapter 11: Emotional Development

Chapter 12: The Self and Identity

Chapter 13: Gender

Chapter 14: Moral Development

Section 5: Social Contexts of Development

Chapter 15: Families

Chapter 16: Peers

Chapter 17: Schools and Achievement

Chapter 18: Culture

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0072967439
• ISBN 13: 9780072967432
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 720