A topical approach to life-span development / John W. Santrock.
By: Santrock, John W [author.].
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2016]Edition: Eight edition.Description: xlii, 588 pages, [121 pages of various paginations] : colour illustrations,charts and diagrams ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780077861995; 9780077861995:; 007786199X.Subject(s): Developmental psychology | Psychology![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Biological beginnings -- Physical development and biological aging -- Health -- Motor, sensory, and perceptual development -- Cognitive developmental approaches -- Information processing -- Intelligence -- Language development -- Emotional development and attachment -- The self, identity and personality -- Gender and sexuality -- Moral development, values and religion -- Families, lifestyles and parenting -- Peers and the sociocultural world -- Schools, achievement and work -- Death, dying and grieving.
This is a topically-oriented text for the lifespan development course. It will allow instructors to focus more on research and to show students how broad concepts of development apply to different stages of life.