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The Developing Child, 11e by Helen Bee and Denise Boyd is supported by MyDevelopmentLab, the exciting online learning and teaching tool designed to increase student success and to give instructors quick and easy access to every resource needed to teach and administer their courses. MyDevelopmentLab stays ahead of the competition by constantly evolving to meet customer needs.

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• Brand new non-course management versions
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• New multi-media assets in every book
• Brand new chapter exams for all new titles
• New pre-, post- and practice tests for all new titles

Learning in context

With MyDevelopmentLab students use an actual e-book of The Developing Child, 11e in the same layout as the printed version to launch multimedia resources such as animations, video clips and audio clips, activities and simulations and more.

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Individualized Study Plans

MyDevelopmentLab gives students multiple testing and quizzing opportunities in each chapter. Results from these assessments generate an Individualized Study Plan that allows students to pinpoint exactly where additional review is needed.

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I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Basic Issues in the Study of Development.

Perspectives on Development.

Theories of Development.

Finding the Answers: Research Designs and Methods.

II. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE.

2. Prenatal Development.

Conception and Genetics.

Development from Conception to Birth.

Problems in Prenatal Development.

3. Birth and Early Infancy.

Birth.

Behavior in Early Infancy.

Health and Wellness in Early Infancy.

III. THE PHYSICAL CHILD.

4. Physical Development.

The Brain and Nervous System.

The Endocrine and Reproductive Systems.

Sexual Behavior in Adolescence.

Other Body Systems.

Health and Wellness.

5. Perceptual Development.

Thinking About Perceptual Development.

Sensory Skills.

Perceptual Skills.

The Object Concept.

Perception of Social Signals.

IV. THE THINKING CHILD.

6. Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process.

Piaget's Basic Ideas.

Infancy.

The Preschool Years.

The School-Aged Child.

Adolescence.

Development of Information-Processing Skills.

7. Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities.

Measuring Intellectual Power.

Explaining Individual Differences in IQ Scores.

Explaining Group Differences in IQ Scores.

Alternative Approaches to Intelligence.

8. The Development of Language.

Before the First Word: The Prelinguistic Phase.

Learning Words and Word Meanings.

Learning the Rules: The Development of Grammar and Pragmatics.

Explaining Language Development.

Individual and Group Differences in Language Development.

Learning to Read and Write.

V. THE SOCIAL CHILD.

9. Personality Development: Alternate Views.

Defining Personality.

Genetic and Biological Explanations.

Learning Explanations.

Psychoanalytic Explanations.

A Possible Synthesis.

10. Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles.

The Concept of Self.

Self-Esteem.

The Development of Gender and Sex-Role Concepts.

Cultures and Contexts: Sex Role Stereotypes Around the World.

11. The Development of Social Relationships.

Relationships with Parents.

Variations in the Quality of Attachments.

Relationships with Peers.

Behavior with Peers.

12. Thinking About Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development.

The Development of Social Cognition.

Moral Development.

VI. THE WHOLE CHILD.

13. The Ecology of Development: The Child Within the Family System.

Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Approach

Dimensions of Family Interaction.

Patterns of Child Rearing.

Other Aspects of Family Dynamics.

Family Structure, Divorce, and Parental Employment.

14. Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture.

Nonparental Care.

The Impact of Schools.

The Impact of the Entertainment Media.

Macrosystem Effects: The Impact of the Larger Culture.

15. Atypical Development.

Understanding Atypical Development.

Attention Problems and Externalizing Problems.

Internalizing Problems.

Atypical Intellectual and Social Development.

Schooling for Atypical Children.

Epilogue. Putting It All Together: The Developing Child.

Transitions, Consolidations, and Systems.

From Birth to 18 Months.

The Preschool Years.

The Elementary School Years.

Adolescence.

A Return to Some Basic Questions.