The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence by Kathleen Stassen Berger (2008, Hardcover)

Worth Publishers, Incorporated

1429216476

9781429216470

66921340

Kathleen Stassen Berger

Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence

Hardcover

English

2008

Textbook

608 Pages

10.9in

1in

9.2in

60.9 Oz

8

Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Defining Development Zooming In and Zooming Out A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Depression and the Brain A CASE TO STUDY: Plasticity and My Nephew David Applying the Scientific Method Cautions from Science Chapter 2 . Theories of Development Grand Theories A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: What''s a Mother For? Emergent Theories A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: My Beautiful, Hairless Babies Useful Application of Theories Chapter 3. Heredity and Environment The Genetic Code Sex, Multiple Births, and Fertility A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: IVF and Multiple Births From One Cell to Many Genotype and Phenotype Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities Genetic Counseling and Testing A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Genetic Testing for Psychological Disorders Chapter 4. Prenatal Development and Birth From Zygote to Newborn Risk Reduction A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Jail Those Drunken Women? A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "What Do People Live to Do?" Birth A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "You''d Throw Him in a Dumpster" Chapter 5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development Body Changes Brain Development A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Plasticity and Deprivation Sensation and Movement Public Health Measures Chapter 6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development Sensorimotor Intelligence A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Object Permanence Revisited Information Processing Language: What Develops in the First Two Years? Chapter 7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Parents on Autopilot Emotional Development Theories About Infant Psychosocial Development A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "Let''s Go to Grandma''s" The Development of Social Bonds A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: The Still-Face Technique Conclusions in Theory and Practice Chapter 8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development Body Changes Brain Development Injuries and Abuse A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "My Baby Swallowed Poison" A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: A Series of Suspicious Events Chapter 9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development Piaget and Vygotsky Children''s Theories Language A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Mommy the Brat Early-Childhood Education Chapter 10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development Emotional Development Parents A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Planning Punishment A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Berger and Freud Chapter 11. The School Years: Biosocial Development A Healthy Time Brain Development Children with Special Needs A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE:: Billy: Dynamo or Dynamite? A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Overdosing and Underdosing Chapter 12. The School Years: Cognitive Development Building on Theory Language A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: SES and Language Learning Teaching and Learning A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: International Achievement Tests 13. The School Years: Psychosocial Development The Peer Group Families and Children A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: I Always Dressed One in Blue Stuff The Nature of the Child 14. Adolescence: Biosocial Development Puberty Begins The Transformations of Puberty A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: What Were You Thinking? A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Calculus at 8 a.m.? Possible Problems 15. Adolescence: Cognitive Development Adolescent Thinking A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Bethany and Jim A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Teenage Religion Teaching and Learning 16. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development Identity Relationships A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: The Berger Daughters Seek Peer Approval Sexuality Sadness and Anger A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: He Kept His Worries to Himself A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: A Feminist Looks at the Data NEW: Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood Appendix A Supplemental Charts, Graphs, and Tables Appendix B More About Research Methods Appendix C Suggestions for Research Assignments

2009

College Audience

Developmental / Adolescent, Developmental / Child, General, Developmental / General

618.92

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Psychology