Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1

Cognition, Biology, and Methods

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-08-20
Mått:229 x 287 x 53 mm
Vikt:2 604 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1 040
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780470390115

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Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters.Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals.

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Preface ixContributors xviii1 Life-Span Development: Concepts and Issues 12 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development Over the Life Span: Concepts and Issues 303 What Life-Span Data Do We Really Need? 554 Brain Development: An Overview 895 Biology, Evolution, and Psychological Development 1156 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting over the Life Span 1497 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development 1958 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective 2269 Memory Development across the Life Span 25910 The Development of Mental Processing 30611 The Development of Representation and Concepts 34612 Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span 39113 Development of Executive Function across the Life Span 43114 Language Development 46715 Self-Regulation: Integration of Cognition and Emotion 50916 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance 55417 The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective 58418 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development 62819 The Development of Knowing 67120 Spatial Development 72021 Gesturing across the Life Span 75422 Developmental Psychopathology—Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective 79223 The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life 83724 Thriving across the Life Span 882Author Index 927Subject Index 971

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