A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development

Connect with Santrock 6th edition and connect with success. Informed and driven by research. At McGraw-Hill, we have spent thousands of hours with you and your students, working to understand the key needs and concerns you face in Human Development courses. The most common topics raised include managing the vast amount of content inherent to a Lifespan course and ensuring the dependability of the assigned material–is it current and accurate? The result of this research is John Santrock's A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development 6e. Santrock 6e ensures students complete and understand the assigned material in a number of ways. Santrock's hallmark Learning Goals pedagogy provides a comprehensive roadmap to the text material, clearly pointing out the core concepts fundamental to students' learning and performance. An adaptive learning system increases students' efficiency in studying by identifying what they know and don't know and providing in-the-moment guides to learning what they do not. The research and development of the 6th edition indicated that students said that highlighting connections among the different aspects of life-span development would help them to better understand the concepts. This recurring theme of connections–Developmental Connections, Topical Connections, Connecting Development to Life, Connecting with Careers, and Connections through Research–ties together concepts from across chapters to reinforce the learning process and connects the material to students' everyday lives and future aspirations. And the new Milestones video and assessment program helps bring the course material to life, so your students can witness development as it unfolds. And of course, all of this material is informed by our unique board of expert contributors–a who's who of developmental psychology–who ensure the material is as accurate and up-to-date as possible.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: The Life-Span Perspective Chapter 1: Introduction The Life-Span PerspectiveThe Nature of DevelopmentTheories of DevelopmentResearch in Life-Span DevelopmentReach Your Learning GoalsAppendix: Careers in Life-Span Development Section 2: Biological Processes, Physical Development, and Health Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings The Evolutionary PerspectiveGenetic Foundations of DevelopmentHeredity and Environment Interaction: The Nature-Nurture DebatePrenatal DevelopmentBirthReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 3: Physical Development and Biological AgingBody Growth and ChangeThe BrainSleepLongevityReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 4: Health Health, Illness, and DiseaseNutrition and Eating BehaviorExerciseSubstance UseReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual DevelopmentMotor DevelopmentSensory and Perceptual DevelopmentPerceptual-Motor CouplingReach Your Learning Goals Section 3: Cognitive Processes and Development Chapter 6: Cogntive Developmental Approaches Applying and Evaluating Piaget's TheoryVygotsky's Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentCognitive Changes in AdulthoodReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 7: Information Processing The Information-Processing ApproachAttentionMemoryThinkingMetacognitionReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 8: Intelligence The Concept of IntelligenceControversies and Group ComparisonsThe Development of IntelligenceThe Extremes of Intelligence and CreativityReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 9: Language Development What is Language?How Language DevelopsBiological and Environmental InfluencesReach Your Learning Goals Section 4: Socioemotional Processes and Development Chapter 10: Emotional Development Exploring EmotionDevelopment of EmotionTemperamentAttachment and LoveReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 11: The Self, Identity, and Personality The SelfIdentityPersonalityReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 12: Gender and Sexuality Biological, Social, and Cognitive Influences on GenderGender Stereotypes, Similarities, and DifferencesGender Development Through the Life SpanExploring SexualitySexuality Through the Life SpanReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 13: Moral Development, Values and ReligionDomains of Moral DevelopmentContexts of Moral DevelopmentProsocial and Antisocial BehaviorValues, Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning in LifeReach Your Learning Goals Section 5: Social Contexts of Development Chapter 14: Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting Family ProcessesThe Diversity of Adult LifestylesParentingOther Family RelationshipsReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 15: Peers and the Sociocultural World Peer Relations in Childhood and AdolescenceFriendshipPlay and LeisureAging and the Social WorldSociocultural InfluencesReach Your Learning Goals Chapter 16: Schools, Achievement, and Work SchoolsAchievementCareers, Work, and RetirementReach Your Learning Goals Section 6: Endings Chapter 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving The Death System and Cultural ContextsDefining Death and Life/Death IssuesA Developmental Perspective on DeathFacing One's Own DeathCoping with the Death of Someone ElseReach Your Learning Goals Glossary References Credits Name Index Subject Index