The Developing Person Through the Life Span - Stassen Berger, Kathleen
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A bestselling life span textbook by a respected author with a distinctive passionate and engaging voice. The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. Also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application.
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A bestselling life span textbook by a respected author with a distinctive passionate and engaging voice. The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. Also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application.

Table of contents:
Preface
PART I: THE BEGINNINGS
Introduction
Theories of Development
Heredity and Environment
Prenatal Development and Birth
PART II: THE FIRST TWO YEARS: INFANTS AND TODDLERS
The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development
PART III: THE PLAY YEARS
The Play Years: Biosocial Development
The Play Years: Cognitive Development
The Play Years: Psychosocial Development
PART IV: THE SCHOOL YEARS
The School Years: Biosocial Development
The School Years: Cognitive Development
The School Years: Psychosocial Development
PART V: ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence: Biosocial Development
Adolescence: Cognitive Development
Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
PART VI: EARLY ADULTHOOD
Early Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Early Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
PART VII: MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
Middle Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Middle Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Middle Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
PART VIII: LATE ADULTHOOD
Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
EPILOGUE: DEATH AND DYING
APPENDIX A: Supplemental Charts, Graphs and Tables
APPENDIX B: More About Research Methods
APPENDIX C: Suggestions for Research Assignments
Autorenporträt
KATHLEEN STASSEN BERGER, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, USA. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, human motivation, and life-span development. for over 35 years.