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Cengage Developmental Psychology Childhood and Adolescence 2006 Edition by David Shaffer, Katherine Kipp
This popular, topically-organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents students with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide students with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks to students rather than at them. The authors also focus on application, helping students to form an understanding of developmental principles that will help them in their roles as parents, teachers, nurses, day-care workers, pediatricians, psychologists, or in any other capacity by which they may one day influence the lives of developing persons. Table of contents : - Part I: THEORY AND RESEARCH IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCES. 1. Introduction to Developmental Psychology and Its Research Strategies. 2. Theories of Human Development. Part II: FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT. 3. Hereditary Influences on Development. 4. Prenatal Development and Birth. 5. Infancy. 6. The Physical Self: Development of the Brain, the Body, and Motor Skills. Part III: LANGUAGE, LEARNING, AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. 7. Cognitive Development: Piaget's Theory and Vygotsky's Sociocultural Viewpoint. 8. Cognitive Development: Information-Processing Perspectives. 9. Intelligence: Measuring Mental Performance. 10. Development of Language and Communication Skills. Part IV: SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT. 11. Emotional Development and the Establishment of Intimate Relationships. 12. Development of the Self and Social Cognition. 13. Sex Differences and Gender-Role Development. 14. Aggression, Altruism, and Moral Development. Part V: THE ECOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT. 15. The Family. 16. Extrafamilial Influences: Television, Schools, and Peers.