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The Life-Span Perspective | |
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Introduction | |
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The Life-Span Perspective | |
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The Nature of Development | |
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Theories of Development | |
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Research in Life-Span Development | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Appendix: Careers in Life-Span Development | |
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Biological Processes, Physical Development, and Health | |
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Biological Beginnings | |
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The Evolutionary Perspective | |
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Genetic Foundations of Development | |
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Heredity and Environment Interaction: The Nature-Nurture Debate | |
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Prenatal Development | |
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Birth | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Physical Development and Biological Aging | |
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Body Growth and Change | |
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The Brain | |
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Sleep | |
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Longevity | |
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Health | |
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Health, Illness, and Disease | |
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Nutrition and Eating Behavior | |
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Exercise | |
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Substance Use | |
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Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development | |
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Motor Development | |
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Sensory and Perceptual Development | |
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Perceptual-Motor Coupling | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Cognitive Processes and Development | |
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Cogntive Developmental Approaches | |
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Cognitive's Theory of Cognitive Development | |
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Applying and Evaluating Piaget's Theory | |
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Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development | |
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Cognitive Changes in Adulthood | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Information Processing | |
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The Information-Processing Approach | |
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Attention | |
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Memory | |
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Thinking | |
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Metacognition | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Intelligence | |
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The Concept of Intelligence | |
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Controversies and Group Comparisons | |
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The Development of Intelligence | |
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The Extremes of Intelligence and Creativity | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Language Development | |
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What is Language? | |
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How Language Develops | |
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Biological and Environmental Influences | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Socioemotional Processes and Development | |
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Emotional Development | |
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Exploring Emotion | |
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Development of Emotion | |
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Temperament | |
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Attachment and Love | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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The Self, Identity, and Personality | |
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The Self | |
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Identity | |
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Personality | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Gender and Sexuality | |
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Biological, Social, and Cognitive Influences on Gender | |
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Gender Stereotypes, Similarities, and Differences | |
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Gender Development Through the Life Span | |
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Exploring Sexuality | |
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Sexuality Through the Life Span | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Moral Development, Values and Religion | |
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Domains of Moral Development | |
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Contexts of Moral Development | |
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Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior | |
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Values, Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning in Life | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Social Contexts of Development | |
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Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting | |
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Family Processes | |
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The Diversity of Adult Lifestyles | |
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Parenting | |
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Other Family Relationships | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Peers and the Sociocultural World | |
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Peer Relations in Childhood and Adolescence | |
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Friendship | |
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Play and Leisure | |
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Aging and the Social World | |
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Sociocultural Influences | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Schools, Achievement, and Work | |
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Schools | |
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Achievement | |
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Careers, Work, and Retirement | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Endings | |
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Death, Dying, and Grieving | |
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The Death System and Cultural Contexts | |
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Defining Death and Life/Death Issues | |
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A Developmental Perspective on Death | |
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Facing One's Own Death | |
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Coping with the Death of Someone Else | |
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Reach Your Learning Goals | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Credits | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |