A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development - Brossura

Santrock, John

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ISBN 10: 1259060853 ISBN 13: 9781259060854

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2013

Riassunto

Connect with John Santrock's Topical Approach to Lifespan Development and connect with success. Informed and driven by research. At McGraw-Hill, we have spent thousands of hours with you and your students, working to understand the key needs and concerns you face in the Human Development course. The most common topics raised include managing the vast amount of content inherent to a Lifespan course and ensuring the dependability of the assigned material – is it current and accurate? The result of this research is John Santrock's A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development, 7e. Santrock ensures students complete and understand the assigned material in a number of ways: Santrock's hallmark Learning Goals pedagogy provides a comprehensive roadmap to the text material, clearly pointing out the core concepts fundamental to students' learning and performance. McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart increases students' efficiency in studying by identifying what they know and don't know and provides immediate remediation, helping them to learn the material they are struggling with. The connections theme continues in the 7th edition, showing students the different aspects of lifespan development and helping them to better understand the concepts. This recurring theme of connections – Developmental Connections, Topical Connections, Connecting Development to Life, Connecting with Careers, and Connections through Research – ties together concepts from across chapters to reinforce the learning process and connect the material to students' everyday lives and future aspirations. McGraw-Hill's Milestones video and assessment program helps bring the course material to life, so your students can witness real children developing over time. And of course, all of this material is informed by our unique board of expert contributors – a who's who of developmental psychology – who ensure the material is as accurate and up-to-date as possible.

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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 Life-Span Perspective

Chapter 1: Introduction

The Life-Span Perspective
The Nature of Development
Theories of Development
Research in Life-Span Development
Reach Your Learning Goals

Appendix: Careers in Life-Span Development

Section 2: Biological Processes, Physical Development, and Health

Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings

The Evolutionary Perspective
Genetic Foundations of Development
Heredity and Environment Interaction: The Nature-Nurture Debate
Prenatal Development
Birth
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 3: Physical Development and Biological Aging

Body Growth and Change
The Brain
Sleep
Longevity
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 4: Health

Health, Illness, and Disease
Nutrition and Eating Behavior
Exercise
Substance Use
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development

Motor Development
Sensory and Perceptual Development
Perceptual-Motor Coupling
Reach Your Learning Goals

Section 3: Cognitive Processes and Development

Chapter 6: Cogntive Developmental Approaches

Applying and Evaluating Piaget's Theory
Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development
Cognitive Changes in Adulthood
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 7: Information Processing

The Information-Processing Approach
Attention
Memory
Thinking
Metacognition
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 8: Intelligence

The Concept of Intelligence
Controversies and Group Comparisons
The Development of Intelligence
The Extremes of Intelligence and Creativity
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 9: Language Development

What is Language?
How Language Develops
Biological and Environmental Influences
Reach Your Learning Goals

Section 4: Socioemotional Processes and Development

Chapter 10: Emotional Development and Attachment

Exploring Emotion
Development of Emotion
Temperament
Attachment and Love
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 11: The Self, Identity, and Personality

The Self
Identity
Personality
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 12: Gender and Sexuality

Biological, Social, and Cognitive Influences on Gender
Gender Stereotypes, Similarities, and Differences
Gender Development Through the Life Span
Exploring Sexuality
Sexuality Through the Life Span
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 13: Moral Development, Values and Religion

Domains of Moral Development
Contexts of Moral Development
Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior
Values, Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning in Life
Reach Your Learning Goals

Section 5: Social Contexts of Development

Chapter 14: Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting

Family Processes
The Diversity of Adult Lifestyles
Parenting
Other Family Relationships
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 15: Peers and the Sociocultural World

Peer Relations in Childhood and Adolescence
Friendship
Play and Leisure
Aging and the Social World
Sociocultural Influences
Reach Your Learning Goals

Chapter 16: Schools, Achievement, and Work

Schools
Achievement
Careers, Work, and Retirement
Reach Your Learning Goals

Section 6: Endings

Chapter 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving

The Death System and Cultural Contexts
Defining Death and Life/Death Issues
A Developmental Perspective on Death
Facing One's Own Death
Coping with the Death of Someone Else
Reach Your Learning Goals

Glossary
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1259060853
• ISBN 13: 9781259060854
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile