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The Developing Child, 13e gives students the tools they need to organize, retain, and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application.
Through The Developing Child, 13e Helen Bee and Denise Boyd generate excitement about scientific inquiry by connecting research with applications. All integrated features within the text are designed to engage students and provide them with the support they need to understand, learn, and apply the material. Interactive resources like MyDevelopmentLab and MyVirtualChild offer students additional support and the ultimate hands-on learning experience.
This is the standalone book if you want the Book/MyDevelopmentLab/Access Card order the ISBN below:
0205865291 / 9780205865291 Developing Child and NEW MyDevelopmentLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card Package
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0205206522 / 9780205206520 NEW MyDevelopmentLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card
0205256023 / 9780205256020 Developing Child, The
About the Author
Denise Boyd received her Ed.D. in educational psychology from the University of Houston and has been a psychology instructor in the Houston Community College System since 1988. From 1995 until 1998, she chaired the psychology, sociology, and anthropology department at Houston Community College—Central. She has coauthored multiple Pearson texts: with Helen Bee, Lifespan Development (Sixth Edition) and The Growing Child (First Edition); and with Genevieve Stevens, Current Readings in Lifespan Development. A licensed psychologist, she has presented a number of papers at professional meetings, reporting research in child, adolescent, and adult development. She has also presented workshops for teachers whose students range from preschool to college.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Issues in the Study of Development
Part II: The Beginnings of Life
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development
Chapter 3: Birth and Early Infancy
Part III: The Physical Child
Chapter 4: Physical Development
Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
Part IV: The Thinking Child
Chapter 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
Chapter 7: Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
Chapter 8: The Development of Language
Part V: The Social Child
Chapter 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views
Chapter 10: Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles
Chapter 11: The Development of Social Relationships
Chapter 12: Thinking about Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development
Part VI: The Whole Child
Chapter 13: The Ecology of Development: The Child within the Family System
Chapter 14: Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
Chapter 15: Atypical Development
Epilogue: Putting It All Together: The Developing Child
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