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A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s
Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition’s extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.
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Innehållsförteckning
PART I. THEORY AND RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
1. History, Theory, and Research Strategies
PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
2. Genetic and Environmental Foundations
3. Prenatal Development
4. Birth and the Newborn Baby
PART III. INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
5. Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
6. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
7. Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
PART IV. EARLY CHILDHOOD: TWO TO SIX YEARS
8. Physical Development in Early Childhood
9. Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
10. Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
PART V. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: SIX TO ELEVEN YEARS
11. Physical Development in Middle Childhood
12. Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
13. Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
PART VI. ADOLESCENCE: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
14. Physical Development in Adolescence
15. Cognitive Development in Adolescence
16. Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
17. Emerging Adulthood
Om författaren
Laura E. Berk is a distinguished professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught child, adolescent, and lifespan development for more than three decades. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in child development and educational psychology from the University of Chicago. She has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of South Australia. Berk has published widely on the effects of school environments on children’s development, the development of private speech, and the role of make-believe play in development. Her empirical studies have attracted the attention of the general public, leading to contributions to Psychology Today and Scientific American. She has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and in Parents Magazine, Wondertime, and Reader’s Digest.
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