The Developing Person Through the Life Span (International Edition)

Höfundar: Berger, Kathleen; Thomas, Kendra (Útgáfa: 13)
The Developing Person Through the Life Span (International Edition)

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Kathleen Stassen Berger og nýr meðhöfundur hennar, Kendra Thomas, segja sögu mannlegs þroska í lifandi og aðgengilegum frásagnarstíl, með þeim persónulegu sögum, grípandi raundæmum og niðurstöðum úr þúsundum greina og gagnasafna sem einkenna bókina. Nýr rammi um gagnrýna hugsun kennir nemendum að hugsa eins og þroskasálfræðingur og heimfæra lögmál þroskavísinda á fjölbreyttar aðstæður, hvort sem viðfangsefnið er tengslamyndun eða öldrun, kynþroski eða uppeldi.

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Útgefandi
Macmillan Learning
ISBN
9781319616021
Print ISBN
9781319615741
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
13
Höfundar
Berger, Kathleen; Thomas, Kendra
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2/5/2026
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • About this Book
  • Cover Page
  • Accessibility
  • Achieve for Psychology
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the Authors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1 The Beginnings
  • Chapter 1 The Science of Human Development
  • 1.1 Thinking Like a Developmentalist
  • Sensitivities Vary
  • Visualizing Development: Different People in Different Environments
  • Combinations Differ
  • Risks and Protections Interact
  • Effects Lag and Cascade
  • Context Matters
  • A Case to Study: David
  • 1.2 Doing Science
  • Significant ≠ Meaningful
  • Empirical Data
  • Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Natural Experiments
  • Correlation (Is Not Causation)
  • Career Alert: The Developmental Scientist
  • Cross-sectional, Longitudinal, and Cross-sequential Research
  • The Quest for Scientific Consensus
  • A View from Science: The Dunedin Longitudinal Study
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 2 Theories
  • 2.1 Theories of Development
  • Theory and Practice
  • Psychodynamic Theory
  • Behaviorism
  • Cognitive Theory
  • Inside the Brain: Measuring Mental Activity
  • A View from Science: Thinking and Perspective
  • Sociocultural Theory
  • Evolutionary Theory
  • Visualizing Development: Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Science
  • 2.2 What Theories Contribute
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Toilet Training — How and When?
  • Limited Metaphors: Steam Engines, Computers, and Blueprints
  • Dynamic, Relational, Eclectic Perspective
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 3 The New Genetics
  • 3.1 The Genetic Code
  • 2 to 1 to 46 to 20,000 to 3 Billion
  • Same and Different
  • Matching Genes and Chromosomes
  • Sex Chromosomes
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Too Many Boys? Too Few Babies?
  • 3.2 New Cells, New People
  • Cells and Identity
  • A View from Science: Golden Rice
  • Twins and More
  • Visualizing Development: One Baby or More?
  • 3.3 From Genotype to Phenotype
  • Epigenetics: Context Matters
  • A Case to Study: The Genetic Spectrum
  • Gene–Gene Interactions: Combinations Differ
  • Nature ⇔ Nurture
  • Practical Applications
  • 3.4 Chromosomal and Genetic Conditions
  • Not Exactly 46
  • Gene Disorders
  • Genetic Counseling
  • Career Alert: The Genetic Counselor
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Especially for Answers
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Chapter 4 Prenatal Development and Birth
  • 4.1 Prenatal Development
  • Germinal: The First 14 Days
  • Embryo: From Weeks 3 to 8
  • Fetus: From the Ninth Week Until Birth
  • Inside the Brain: Multiply, Migrate, Specialize
  • 4.2 Birth
  • Assistance at Birth
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Intervention During Birth
  • The Newborn’s First Minutes
  • Visualizing Development: The Apgar
  • 4.3 Risks and Protections
  • Anoxia
  • Teratogens
  • A Case to Study: He Cannot Get the Right Words Out
  • Limiting Harm
  • A View from Science: Three Natural Experiments in Three Continents
  • What About the Other Parent?
  • Low Birthweight: Too Soon or Too Small?
  • 4.4 The New Family
  • The Newborn
  • Postpartum Parents
  • Family Bonding
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Especially for Answers
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Part 2 The First Two Years
  • Chapter 5 Biosocial Development
  • 5.1 Body Changes
  • Body Size
  • Sleep
  • A View from Science: Solving the Mystery
  • Inside the Brain: Neuroscience Vocabulary
  • Harming the Infant Body and Brain
  • 5.2 Perceiving and Moving
  • The Senses
  • A Case to Study: Time Sensitive Care
  • Motor Skills
  • 5.3 Surviving in Good Health
  • Nutrition
  • Immunization
  • Visualizing Development: Immunization
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Especially for Answers
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Chapter 6 Cognitive Development
  • 6.1 Quick Learners
  • Looking to Learn
  • Imitating to Learn
  • Infant Memory
  • 6.2 Active Learners
  • Piaget’s Sensorimotor Intelligence
  • Contrasting Perspectives: How to Measure Object Permanence
  • 6.3 Social Learners
  • Listening to Learn: Sensitivities Vary Across Time
  • The Language Sequence
  • A Case to Study: Early Speech
  • Language Learning Is Dynamic
  • Visualizing Development: Early Communication and Language
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Especially for Answers
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Chapter 7 Psychosocial Development
  • 7.1 Emotional Development in Context
  • Early Emotions
  • Toddlers’ Emotions
  • Temperament: Sensitivities Vary
  • A View from Science: Temperament over the Years
  • 7.2 Social Bonds
  • Synchrony
  • Trust and Autonomy
  • Attachment
  • Visualizing Development: Developing Attachment
  • Emotions for Survival
  • A Case to Study: Let’s Play
  • 7.3 Who Cares for the Baby?
  • Baby Care
  • Parental Leave and Child Care
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Public Debates About Day Care
  • Nurturing Care Framework
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 3 Early Childhood
  • Chapter 8 Biosocial Development
  • 8.1 Body Changes
  • Growth Patterns
  • Nutrition: Effects Lag and Cascade
  • Visualizing Development: Nutrition and Brain Health
  • 8.2 Brain Growth
  • Myelination
  • Inside the Brain: Connected Hemispheres
  • Maturation of the Prefrontal Cortex
  • Stress and the Brain
  • Advancing Motor Skills
  • 8.3 Avoidable Injury
  • Prevention
  • A Case to Study: “My Baby Swallowed Poison”
  • A View from Science: Getting Research to the Authorities
  • 8.4 Child Maltreatment
  • Discovering the “Battered Child”
  • Definitions and Statistics
  • Consequences of Maltreatment
  • Preventing Harm
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 9 Cognitive Development
  • 9.1 Thinking During Early Childhood
  • Executive Function
  • Children’s Theories
  • A Case to Study: “Did You Wash Your Hands?”
  • Inside the Brain: The Role of Experience
  • 9.2 Constructed Cognition
  • Piaget: Preoperational Thought
  • Vygotsky: Social Learning
  • Language as a Tool
  • 9.3 Language Learning
  • The Sensitive Time for Language Learning
  • Acquiring Grammar
  • Learning Two Languages
  • Developing Literacy
  • 9.4 Early-Childhood Schooling
  • Quality Matters
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Comparing Child-Centered and Teacher-Directed Preschools
  • Intervention Programs: Effects Lag and Cascade
  • Visualizing Development: Early-Childhood Schooling
  • Career Alert: The Preschool Teacher
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 10 Psychosocial Development
  • 10.1 Emotional Development
  • Emotion Regulation
  • A View from Science: Waiting for the Marshmallow
  • Motivation
  • 10.2 Play
  • Playing Well with Others
  • Screen Time
  • Visualizing Development: More Play Time, Less Screen Time
  • 10.3 Challenges for Caregivers
  • Styles of Caregiving
  • Discipline
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Spare the Rod?
  • Teaching Right and Wrong
  • 10.4 Becoming Boys and Girls: Sex and Gender
  • Evolutionary and Biological Origins
  • Inside the Brain: Thinking like a Developmentalist: Gender in the Brain
  • Cognitive and Social Constructions
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 4 Middle Childhood
  • Chapter 11 Biosocial Development
  • 11.1 A Healthy Time
  • Habits and Health
  • Physical Activity
  • Motor Skills and Education
  • A View from Science: Making Music
  • Health Challenges in Middle Childhood
  • 11.2 Brain Development
  • Brains and Motion
  • Measuring the Mind
  • Visualizing Development: Intelligence: Nature ⇔ Nurture
  • A View from Science: The Flynn Effect
  • 11.3 Children with Distinct Educational Needs
  • Many Causes, Many Symptoms
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Drugs for Children Across Contexts
  • Specific Learning Disorders
  • A Case To Study: The Gifted and Talented
  • Career Alert: Health Care Professionals
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 12 Cognitive Development
  • 12.1 Thinking
  • Concrete Thinking
  • Overlapping Waves
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Two or Twenty Pills a Day?
  • Context Matters: Comparing Theories
  • Neuroscience of Learning
  • Inside the Brain: Coordination and Capacity
  • 12.2 Language
  • Vocabulary
  • Acquiring a New Language in School
  • Poverty Cascades
  • 12.3 Teaching and Learning
  • School Climate
  • Visualizing Development: Education in Middle Childhood
  • International Testing
  • Schooling in the United States
  • Career Alert: The Speech-Language Pathologist
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 13 Psychosocial Development
  • 13.1 The Nature of the Child
  • Industry and Inferiority
  • Resilience
  • 13.2 Families During Middle Childhood
  • A Case to Study: Each Influences the Whole
  • Siblings
  • Function and Structure
  • Visualizing Development: Family Size around the World
  • Family Trouble
  • 13.3 Other Children
  • The Culture of Children
  • Friendships and Acceptance
  • Bullying
  • A Case to Study: How Do You Care for Others?
  • Children’s Morality
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 5 Adolescence
  • Chapter 14 Biosocial Development
  • 14.1 Puberty and Hormones
  • Sequence
  • Unseen Beginning
  • A View from Science: What Kind of Disease Is It?
  • Body Rhythms
  • Sensitivities Vary: Timing of Puberty
  • A View from Science: Why Does Stress Affect Puberty?
  • 14.2 Growth and Nutrition
  • Growing Bigger and Stronger
  • Nutrition During Adolescence
  • Eating Disorders
  • 14.3 Sexual Maturation
  • Sexual Characteristics
  • Visualizing Development: Transformation at Puberty
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Contrasting Perspectives: The Double Standard
  • Ongoing Problems
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 15 Adolescence Cognitive Development
  • 15.1 Cognition and the Brain
  • Brains Under Construction
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Language Differences
  • Audiences, Real and Imaginary
  • A Case to Study: Biting the Police Officer
  • 15.2 The Brain and Mental Health
  • Protecting the Brain
  • Inside the Brain: The Limbic System at Adolescence
  • 15.3 Secondary Education
  • What Is the Goal?
  • Visualizing Development: How Many Adolescents Are in School?
  • Measuring Education
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 16 Psychosocial Development
  • 16.1 Identity
  • Seeking Stability
  • Arenas of Identity Formation
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Where Are You From?
  • A View from Science: Changing Focus
  • Intersectionality
  • 16.2 Close Relationships
  • Parents and Peers
  • A Case To Study: Kathleen Remembers Her Teenage Daughters
  • Family Closeness
  • Family Conflict
  • Closeness with Peers
  • Sexual Activity
  • Technology
  • 16.3 Anxiety, Depression, and Aggression
  • Scope of the Problem
  • Visualizing Development: Adolescent Mental Health
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Delinquency and Defiance
  • Inside the Brain: The Rewards of Crime
  • Drug Abuse
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 6 Emerging Adulthood
  • Chapter 17 Biosocial Development
  • 17.1 Biological Universals
  • Body Systems
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Weird or Worldwide?
  • Looking Good
  • Sexual Activity
  • Visualizing Development: Highlights in the Journey to Adulthood
  • 17.2 Health and Sickness
  • No Doctors, No Problem?
  • The Pace of Biological Aging
  • Natural Protections
  • Health Habits of Young Adults
  • 17.3 Risk-Taking
  • Age and Risk
  • Benefits and Dangers
  • A Case To Study: An Adrenaline Junkie
  • Drug Use
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 18 Cognitive Development
  • 18.1 Stages and Ages
  • Postformal Cognition
  • Combining Emotions and Logic
  • A View from Science: From Stories to Cognition
  • Dialectical Thought
  • 18.2 Ethics and Religion
  • Measuring Morality
  • Contrasting Perspectives: A Sterilized Cockroach
  • Looking at Religion
  • 18.3 Higher Education
  • Benefits for Students
  • Benefits for Society
  • Inside the Brain: Why Are There More Women than Men in College?
  • College and Cognition
  • Visualizing Development: Why Study?
  • A Case To Study: This Is Not What I Had in Mind
  • Benefits Today
  • Instead of College
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 19 Psychosocial Development
  • 19.1 Identity Ongoing
  • The Five Identities Revisited
  • Moratorium
  • 19.2 Social Connections
  • Loneliness and Emerging Adults
  • The Family
  • A Case To Study: Parents Controlling Adults
  • Friendship
  • 19.3 Romantic Partnership
  • Culture and Pair Bonding
  • Inside the Brain: What Is Love?
  • Avoiding Marriage
  • The Advantage of Partnerships
  • Visualizing Development: Dating and Marriage in the United States
  • Thriving Partnerships
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 7 Adulthood
  • Chapter 20 Biosocial Development
  • 20.1 Growing Older
  • Four Kinds of Age
  • Outward Appearance
  • The Senses
  • 20.2 Body Systems
  • Genes and Aging
  • The Respiratory System
  • The Sexual-Reproductive System
  • Seeking Pregnancy
  • A Case to Study: Motherhood Keeps Me Young
  • A View from Science: Hormone Replacement
  • 20.3 Habits: Good and Bad
  • Drugs
  • Exercise
  • Visualizing Development: Move It or Lose It
  • Nutrition
  • Contrasting Perspectives: BMI and Health
  • Sleep
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answer
  • Chapter 21 Cognitive Development
  • 21.1 Adult Intelligence
  • IQ Testing
  • Inside the Brain: Connections and Concepts
  • Age-Related Cognitive Changes
  • A View from Science: Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence
  • Other Kinds of Intelligence
  • 21.2 Cognitive Hazards
  • Genes and the Brain
  • Toxic Substances
  • A Case to Study: “How About a Month?”
  • Trauma
  • 21.3 Choices in Thinking
  • Selective Cognition
  • Visualizing Development: Media Use Among U.S. Adults
  • The Four Characteristics of Experts
  • Expertise and Age
  • Experience and Practice
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answer
  • Chapter 22 Psychosocial Development
  • 22.1 Personality Development in Adulthood
  • Erikson’s Theory
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy
  • The Big Five
  • A View from Science: Personality Change
  • 22.2 Intimacy: Connecting with Others
  • Friends and Acquaintances
  • Partners
  • A Case to Study: The Benefits of Marriage
  • Family Bonds
  • Visualizing Development: Family Connections
  • Family Estrangement
  • 22.3 Generativity: The Work of Adulthood
  • Parenthood
  • Caregiving
  • Contrasting Perspectives: The Skipped-Generation Family
  • Employment and Generativity
  • Career Alert: The Physical Therapist
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Part 8 Late Adulthood
  • Chapter 23 Biosocial Development
  • 23.1 Demography and Prejudice
  • Demography
  • Ageism
  • A Case to Study: I’m Not Like Those Other Old People
  • Truth or Stereotype?
  • Contrasting Perspectives: Ageism, Demography, and a Pandemic
  • Distinguishing Among Older People
  • A View from Science: Data and the Availability Heuristic
  • 23.2 Systems and Choices
  • Microsystem Compensation: Sexuality
  • Macrosystem Compensation: Driving
  • Visualizing Development: Elders Behind the Wheel
  • Exosystem Compensation: The Senses
  • Primary and Secondary Aging
  • 23.3 Theories of Aging
  • Wear and Tear
  • It’s All Genetic
  • Aging of the Cells
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 24 Cognitive Development
  • 24.1 Cognitive Processing in Adulthood
  • It Starts with the Senses
  • Brain Changes in Late Adulthood
  • Contrasting Perspectives: One Task at a Time
  • Memory
  • Control Processes
  • Expressing Ideas
  • A View from Science: A Fair Test
  • 24.2 Neurocognitive Disorders
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • A Case to Study: As Long as I Mean Something to My Children
  • Vascular Disease
  • Lewy Body Disease
  • Frontotemporal Disorders
  • Visualizing Development: Major NCDs
  • Preventing Impairment
  • 24.3 Cognitive Gains
  • When Neurocognitive Losses Are Reversible
  • Aesthetic Sense and Creativity
  • The Life Review
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Chapter 25 Psychosocial Development
  • 25.1 Theories of Late Adulthood
  • Self Theories
  • A Case to Study: Holding on to the Self
  • A View from Science: The Positivity Effect
  • The Wider World
  • 25.2 Activity in Late Adulthood
  • Work
  • Religious Activity
  • Political Activity
  • Social Connections
  • 25.3 Home and Care
  • Aging in Place
  • When More Care Is Needed
  • Visualizing Development: Living Independently After Age 65
  • Career Alert: Geriatric Care Manager
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Epilogue: Death, Dying, and Affirmation of Life
  • Ep.1 Living with Death
  • Framework for Death
  • Throughout the Life Span
  • Ep.2 A Good Death
  • Medical Care
  • Better Ways to Die
  • Ethical Issues
  • Contrasting Perspectives: The “Right to Die”?
  • Advance Directives
  • Ep.3 Grief and Hope
  • Tasks and Processes
  • Grief
  • Mourning
  • End of Chapter
  • Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Observation Quiz Answers
  • Especially for Answers
  • Appendix: More About Research Methods
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Back Cover