A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development
John W. Santrock
Language: English
Pages: 785
ISBN: 0078035503
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Informed and driven by research. At McGraw-Hill, we have spent thousands of hours with you and your students, working to understand the key needs and concerns you face in the Human Development course. The most common topics raised include managing the vast amount of content inherent to a Lifespan course and ensuring the dependability of the assigned material – is it current and accurate? The result of this research is John Santrock's A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development, 7e.
Santrock ensures students complete and understand the assigned material in a number of ways: Santrock's hallmark Learning Goals pedagogy provides a comprehensive roadmap to the text material, clearly pointing out the core concepts fundamental to students' learning and performance. McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart increases students' efficiency in studying by identifying what they know and don't know and provides immediate remediation, helping them to learn the material they are struggling with. The connections theme continues in the 7th edition, showing students the different aspects of lifespan development and helping them to better understand the concepts. This recurring theme of connections – Developmental Connections, Topical Connections, Connecting Development to Life, Connecting with Careers, and Connections through Research – ties together concepts from across chapters to reinforce the learning process and connect the material to students' everyday lives and future aspirations. McGraw-Hill's Milestones video and assessment program helps bring the course material to life, so your students can witness real children developing over time. And of course, all of this material is informed by our unique board of expert contributors – a who's who of developmental psychology – who ensure the material is as accurate and up-to-date as possible.
rise to infectious diseases in older adults (Stowell, Robles, & Kane, 2013). The extended duration of stress and diminished restorative processes in older adults may accelerate the effects of aging on immunity. Researchers are exploring stress buffering strategies, including exercise, in an effort to find ways to attenuate some of the negative effects of stress on the aging process (Bauer & others, 2013). Which of these biological theories best explains aging? That question has not yet been
RESEARCH How Well Do Adults Remember What They Learned in High School and College Spanish? 236 Thinking 237 What Is Thinking? 237 Infancy and Childhood 237 CONNECTING WITH CAREERS Helen Hadani, Developmental Psychologist, Toy Designer, and LANGO Regional Director 240 Adolescence 242 Adulthood 245 The CONNECTING DEVELOPMENT TO LIFE Cognitive Training with Older Adults 250 Metacognition 251 What Is Metacognition? 251 Theory of Mind 252 Metamemory in Children 254 Metacognition in Adolescence and
33–35 Conducting Research on Adolescents Video pp. 35–36 Ethical Dilemmas Interactive Learning pp. 35–36 Explain how research on lifespan development is conducted. SECTION 1 The Life-Span Perspective 41 appendix Careers in Life-Span Development The field of life-span development offers an amazing breadth of careers that can provide extremely satisfying work. College and university professors teach courses in many areas of life-span development. Teachers impart knowledge,
usually from the inside of the mouth. The chromosomes are stained by chemical treatment, magnified extensively, and then photographed. (a) 54 CHAPTER 2 Biological Beginnings (b) Do you notice any obvious differences between the chromosomes of the male and the chromosomes of the female in Figure 2.5? The difference lies in the 23rd pair. Ordinarily, in females this pair consists of two chromosomes called X chromosomes; in males the 23rd pair consists of an X and a Y chromosome. The presence
in 12 weeks of twice-weekly sessions of yoga or massage therapy had a greater decrease in depression, anxiety, and back and leg pain than a control group (Field & others, 2012). And in yet another recent study, at 22 weeks gestation, prenatally depressed pregnant women were randomly assigned to participate in (1) a 20-minute How might a woman’s exercise during pregnancy benefit her and her offspring? group session of tai chi/yoga for 12 weeks, or (2) a wait list control group (Field & others,