Lifespan development / / Denise Boyd, Helen Bee

• Autore: Boyd Denise Roberts
• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Pearson, , [2015]; ©2015
• Edizione: Seventh edition, Global edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (622 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 155.4
• Soggetto topico: Developmental psychology
• Persona (resp. second.): BeeHelen L. <1939->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- List of Features -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Foundations -- Chapter 1: Human Development and Research Methodology -- An Introduction to Human Development -- Philosophical and Scientific Roots -- The Lifespan Perspective -- The Domains and Periods of Development -- test yourself before going on -- Key Issues in the Study of Human Development -- Nature versus Nurture -- Continuity versus Discontinuity -- Three Kinds of Change -- Research Report: An Example of a Cohort Effect: Children and Adolescents in the Great Depression -- Contexts of Development -- test yourself before going on -- Research Methods and Designs -- The Goals of Developmental Science -- Descriptive Methods -- No Easy Answers: It Depends . . . -- Developmental Science At Home: Correlation versus Causation -- The Experimental Method -- Designs for Studying Age-Related Changes -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Research Ethics -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- An Introduction to Human Development (pp. 24-28) -- Key Issues in the Study of Human Development (pp. 28-32) -- Research Methods and Designs (pp. 33-41) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Chapter 2: Theories of Development -- Psychoanalytic Theories -- Freud's Psychosexual Theory -- No Easy Answers: The Repressed-Memory Controversy -- Erikson's Psychosocial Theory -- Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Theories -- test yourself before going on -- Learning Theories -- Classical Conditioning -- Developmental Science in the Classroom: Systematic Desensitization -- Skinner's Operant Conditioning -- Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory -- Evaluation of Learning Theories -- test yourself before going on -- Cognitive Theories -- Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory -- Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory -- Information-Processing Theory -- Evaluation of Cognitive Theories. ; test yourself before going on -- Research Report: Piaget's Clever Research -- Biological and Ecological Theories -- Behavior Genetics -- Ethology and Sociobiology -- Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory -- test yourself before going on -- Comparing Theories -- Assumptions about Development -- Usefulness -- Eclecticism -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Psychoanalytic Theories (pp. 46-50) -- Learning Theories (pp. 51-55) -- Cognitive Theories (pp. 55-60) -- Biological and Ecological Theories (pp. 60-63) -- Comparing Theories (pp. 63-66) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Chapter 3: Development from Conception to Birth -- Conception and Genetics -- The Process of Conception -- Research Report: Twins in Genetic Research -- How Genes Influence Development -- test yourself before going on -- Genetic and Chromosomal Disorders -- Genetic Disorders -- Chromosomal Errors -- test yourself before going on -- Pregnancy and Prenatal Development -- The Mother's Experience -- Prenatal Development -- Sex Differences -- Prenatal Behavior -- test yourself before going on -- Problems in Prenatal Development -- How Teratogens Influence Development -- Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol -- Maternal Diseases -- Other Maternal Influences on Prenatal Development -- Fetal Assessment and Treatment -- test yourself before going on -- Birth and the Neonate -- Birth Choices -- The Physical Process of Birth -- Assessing the Neonate -- Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth -- Developmental Science in the Clinic: Singing to Preterm Infants -- No Easy Answers: When Do Preterm Infants Catch Up with Full-Term Infants? -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Conception and Genetics (pp. 71-76) -- Genetic and Chromosomal Disorders (pp. 76-79) -- Pregnancy and Prenatal Development (pp. 79-86) -- Problems in Prenatal Development (pp. 86-93) -- Birth and the Neonate (pp. 94-100). ; Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Part II: Infancy -- Chapter 4: Infancy-The Process of Skills Development -- Physical Changes -- The Brain and Nervous System -- No Easy Answers: TV for Tots: How Much is Too Much? -- Reflexes and Behavioral States -- Growth, Motor Skills, and Developing Body Systems -- test yourself before going on -- Health and Wellness -- Nutrition -- Malnutrition -- Health Care and Immunizations -- test yourself before going on -- Infant Mortality -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -- Developmental Science in the Clinic: When an Infant Dies -- Group Differences in Infant Mortality -- test yourself before going on -- Sensory Skills -- Vision -- Hearing and Other Senses -- test yourself before going on -- Perceptual Skills -- Studying Perceptual Development -- Looking -- Research Report: Langlois's Studies of Babies' Preferences for Attractive Faces -- Listening -- Combining Information from Several Senses -- Explaining Perceptual Development -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Physical Changes (pp. 105-111) -- Health and Wellness (pp. 111-113) -- Infant Mortality (pp. 113-117) -- Sensory Skills (pp. 117-119) -- Perceptual Skills (pp. 119-124) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Chapter 5: Infancy-Learning and Cognitive Changes -- Cognitive Changes -- Piaget's View of the First 2 Years -- Challenges to Piaget's View -- Alternative Approaches -- test yourself before going on -- Learning, Categorizing, and Remembering -- Conditioning and Modeling -- Schematic Learning -- Memory -- test yourself before going on -- The Beginnings of Language -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Influences on Language Development -- Early Milestones of Language Development -- Developmental Science in the Classroom: The Importance of Reading to Toddlers -- Research Report: Early Gestural Language in the Children of Deaf Parents -- The First Words. ; The First Sentences -- Individual Differences in Language Development -- Language Development across Cultures -- No Easy Answers: One Language or Two? -- test yourself before going on -- Measuring Intelligence in Infancy -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Cognitive Changes (pp. 128-133) -- Learning, Categorizing, and Remembering (pp. 134-136) -- The Beginnings of Language (pp. 136-144) -- Measuring Intelligence in Infancy (pp. 144-145) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Chapter 6: Infancy-Social and Personality Development -- Theories of Social and Personality Development -- Psychoanalytic Perspectives -- No Easy Answers: Adoption and Development -- Ethological Perspectives -- test yourself before going on -- Attachment -- The Parents' Attachment to the Infant -- The Infant's Attachment to the Parents -- Variations in Attachment Quality -- Caregiver Characteristics and Attachment -- Long-Term Consequences of Attachment Quality -- Cross-Cultural Research on Attachment -- test yourself before going on -- Personality, Temperament, and Self-Concept -- Dimensions of Temperament -- Origins and Stability of Temperament -- Research Report: Gender Differences in Temperament -- Self-Concept -- test yourself before going on -- Effects of Nonparental Care -- Difficulties in Studying Nonparental Care -- Effects on Physical and Cognitive Development -- Effects on Social Development -- Interpreting Research on Nonparental Care -- Developmental Science At Home: Choosing a Day-Care Center -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Theories of Social and Personality Development (pp. 150-152) -- Attachment (pp. 152-159) -- Personality, Temperament, and Self-Concept (pp. 160-164) -- Effects of Nonparental Care (pp. 164-169) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Part III: Early Childhood -- Chapter 7: Early Childhood-Physical and Cognitive Changes. ; Physical Changes -- Growth and Motor Development -- The Brain and Nervous System -- Developmental Science At Home: A Good Night's Sleep for Kids (and Parents, Too!) -- Health and Wellness -- Abuse and Neglect -- test yourself before going on -- Cognitive Changes -- Piaget's Preoperational Stage -- Research Report: Children's Play and Cognitive Development -- Challenges to Piaget's View -- Theories of Mind -- Alternative Theories of Early Childhood Thinking -- test yourself before going on -- Changes in Language -- Fast-Mapping -- The Grammar Explosion -- Phonological Awareness -- test yourself before going on -- Differences in Intelligence -- Measuring Intelligence -- Origins of Individual Differences in Intelligence -- Group Differences in Intelligence-Test Scores -- No Easy Answers: To Test or Not to Test? -- test yourself before going on -- Summary -- Physical Changes (pp. 174-180) -- Cognitive Changes (pp. 180-188) -- Changes in Language (pp. 188-191) -- Differences in Intelligence (pp. 191-197) -- Key Terms -- Chapter Test -- Chapter 8: Early Childhood-Social and Personality Development -- Theories of Social and Personality Development -- Psychoanalytic Perspectives -- Social-Cognitive Perspectives -- Research Report: Racism in the Preschool Classroom -- test yourself before going on -- Personality and Self-Concept -- From Temperament to Personality -- Self-Concept -- test yourself before going on -- Gender Development -- Explaining Gender Development -- Sex-Role Knowledge -- Sex-Typed Behavior -- test yourself before going on -- Family Relationships and Structure -- Attachment -- Parenting Styles -- Developmental Science At Home: To Spank or Not to Spank? -- Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Parenting Styles -- Family Structure -- Divorce -- Understanding the Effects of Family Structure and Divorce. ; No Easy Answers: When Divorce is Unavoidable.
• Sommario/riassunto: Provides the most Support for Student Learning and Success Lifespan Development, 7/e by Denise G. Boyd and Helen L. Bee thoroughly and accessibly addresses the most critical concepts of development. Through their engaging writing style, the authors have made more abstract material about developmental theories approachable to students. Readers will appreciate both the applied nature of this title and the clarity of the authors' presentation of current research. Students will emerge from your course with a thorough understanding of developmental science and will be able to apply this understanding to their own lives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lifespan development
• ISBN: 1-292-06565-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154776203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Always learning.