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Children and Their Development, 7th edition

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  • Robert V. Kail Purdue University
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REVEL™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, REVEL offers an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Enlivening course content with media interactives and assessments, REVEL empowers educators to increase engagement with the course, and to better connect with students.

Organized topically and focused on practice, REVEL for Children and Their Development, Seventh Edition shows students the way scientists actually conduct research and study the discipline. A well-known and respected researcher in the field of child development, author Robert V. Kail provides a path to explore the theory, research, and application of modern child development from conception through adolescence. REVEL for Children and Their Development’s accessible writing, modular format, and application-based features are designed to work together to help students see how research translates into practice.

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Table of contents

Brief Contents

  1. The Science of Child Development
  2. Genetic Bases of Child Development
  3. Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
  4. Growth and Health
  5. Perceptual and Motor Development
  6. Theories of Cognitive Development
  7. Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills
  8. Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition
  9. Language and Communication
  10. Emotional Development
  11. Understanding Self and Others
  12. Moral Understanding and Behavior
  13. Gender and Development
  14. Family Relationships
  15. Influences Beyond the Family

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