eBook Description

Human Development: A Life-Span View 8th Edition by Robert Kail & John Cavanaugh | eBook PDF | ISBN 13 : 9781337554831

About the eBook 

Feel intimidated by the life-span course? You’re in good hands with HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 8th Edition, as your guide. Complete, yet succinct and filled with real-life examples that aid understanding, the text has proven its ability to capture students’ interest while introducing them to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. The efficient organization (chronological, but with a few chapters on key topical issues) allows this text to be briefer than many other texts for the same course. The material is relevant, too: You’ll gain the foundations in important theories and research that enable you to become an educated interpreter of developmental information in your future career. In addition, basic and applied research along with controversial topics and emergent trends demonstrate connections between the laboratory and life.

Table of Content : 

1. The Study of Human Development.
Part I: PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT, INFANCY, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
2. Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth.
3. Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development.
4. The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.
5. Entering the Social World: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.
Part II: SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
6. Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood.
7. Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood.
8. Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence.
9. Moving Into the Adult Social World: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence.
Part III: YOUNG AND MIDDLE ADULTHOOD.
10. Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.
11. Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood.
12. Work, Leisure, and Retirement.
13. Making It in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial Challenges of Middle Adulthood.
Part IV: LATE ADULTHOOD.
14. The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues.
15. Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial, Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues.
16. The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement.
Glossary.
References.

What’s new : 

• New profiles in the “Real People” feature cover Muhammad Ali, James Obergefell and John Arthur’s fight for gay marriage, the Angelina Jolie effect on breast cancer screening, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, the politics of unemployment, and Randy Pausch’s last lecture.
• New topics in the “Spotlight on Research” feature include infant reaching, preschool children’s essentialist thinking, impaired reading comprehension, electronic media, adolescent depression, and the long-term health effects of leisure activities.
• Chapters on prenatal development through early childhood include new or revised material on the period of the fetus, nutrition during pregnancy, non-invasive prenatal testing, co-sleeping, breast feeding, handedness, young children’s naïve theories of biology, infants’ number skills, infant-directed speech, touchscreen devices for children’s word learning, pretend play and solitary play, father-infant relationships, the impact of child care, and emotion regulation.