Cengage advantage books: child and adolescent development

Organized topically to realistically present the three overarching perspectives that guide today's researchers and practitioners of developmental psychology, David Bjorklund and Carlos Hernández-Blasi's CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH shows how the major perspectives on human development must be integrated -rather than presented as contrasting and sometimes contradictory ways of looking at development -in order to meaningfully understandinfants, children, and adolescents as well as how they develop. INDICE: PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT. 1. Introduction to Child and Adolescent Development. 2. Theories and Contexts of Development. 3. Genetics, Prenatal Development, and the Neonate. 4. Physical Development. PART II: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: BECOMING A PROBLEM SOLVER. 5. What Do Infants Know and When and How do They Know It? 6. The Symbolic Child: Piaget's Theory and Beyond.7. Understanding Self and Others. 8. Becoming Self-Directed Thinkers: ProblemSolving and Memory. 9. Language Development. 10. Intelligence and School Achievement. PART III: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: BECOMING A SOCIAL BEING. 11. Emotion, Temperament, and Personality Development. 12. Attachment and Early Parent-ChildCare. 13. The Family and Other Contexts for Socialization. 14. Competing and Cooperating with Peers. 15. The Development of Sexuality and Gender Identity. Glossary. References. Name Index. Subject Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-495-89740-8
• Editorial: Wadsworth
• Encuadernacion: Desconocida
• Páginas: 800
• Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés