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Human development : a life-span view / Robert V. Kail, John C. Cavanaugh.
LIBRA BF713 .K336 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kail, Robert V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Developmental psychology--Textbooks.
- Developmental psychology.
- Psychology.
- Human Development.
- psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Human Development.
- Psychology.
- Genre:
- Textbooks
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 735 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- 5th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Australia ; Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, ©2010.
- Summary:
- The authors provide theoretical and empirical foundations that enable students to become educated, critical interpreters of developmental information. A blend of basic and applied research, as well as coverage of controversial topics and emergent trends, demonstrates connections between the laboratory and life.
- Contents:
- The study of human development
- Part I: Prenatal development, infancy, and early childhood
- Biological foundations
- Tools for exploring the world
- The emergence of thought and language
- Entering the social world
- Part II: School-age children and adolescents
- Off to school
- Expanding social horizons
- Rites of passage
- Moving into the adult social world
- Part III: Young and middle adulthood
- Becoming an adult
- Being with others
- Work and leisure
- Making it in midlife
- Part IV: Late adulthood
- The personal context of later life
- Social aspects of later life
- The final passage
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-712) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780495600374
- 0495600377
- 9780495599579
- 0495599573
- 9780495599562
- 0495599565
- 9780495600770
- 0495600776
- OCLC:
- 301958531
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