Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, Janet Belskys Experiencing the Lifespan always reflects a scientists understanding of key research, a psychologists understanding of people, and a teachers understanding of students. This extensively updated new edition features significant new findings, a broad-based global perspective, and enhanced media offerings. With all of this, the book itself remains at just the right length and level of coverage to fit comfortably in a single-term course.
Table of Contents
Part I. The Foundation
1. The People and the Field
2. Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth
Part II. Infancy
3. Infancy: Physical and Cognitive Development
4. Infancy: Socioemotional Development
Part III. Childhood
5. Physical and Cognitive Development
6. Socioemotional Development
7. Settings for Development. Home and School
Part IV. Adolescence
8. Physical Development
9. Cognitive and Socioemotional Development
Part V. Early and Middle Adulthood
10. Constructing an Adult Life
11. Relationships and Roles
12. Midlife
Part VI. Later Life
13. Later Life: Cognitive and Socioemotional Development
14. The Physical Challenges of Aging
Part VII. Epilogue
15. Death and Dying
Final Thoughts