Life Span Development: A Topical Approach, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2020

  • Robert S. Feldman University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Title overview

For courses in Lifespan Development

A brief, topical overview of life span development

Life Span Development: A Topical Approach helps students to see the 'big picture' of development across the entire life span. Author Robert Feldman employs a modular framework that offers instructors maximum flexibility to teach the course however they envision. Concise coverage of all key principles helps instructors cover the whole of the field within a standard term, while a topical approach makes it easier for students to understand the scope of development within particular areas (such as social or personality development) across the entire life span. Thoroughly updated with the latest research and contemporary examples, the 4th Edition better ensures that students make connections between course concepts and their own lives and future careers.

Table of contents

  • 1. An Orientation to Lifespan Development
  • 2. Genetics, Prenatal Development, and Birth
  • 3. Physical Growth and Aging Across the Life Span
  • 4. Health and Wellness
  • 5. Cognitive Growth: Piaget and Vygotsky
  • 6. Cognitive Growth: Information Processing Approaches
  • 7. Language Development
  • 8. Intelligence
  • 9. Social and Emotional Development
  • 10. Development of the Self
  • 11. Moral Development and Aggression
  • 12. Gender and Sexuality
  • 13. Friends and Family
  • 14. Schooling, Culture, and Society: Living in a Multicultural World
  • 15. Death and Dying

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