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Exceptionally well-loved, Janet Belsky's textbook, written in her signature engaging style and voice, offers a fresh, remarkably brief way to understand the experience of human development throughout the lifespan. It gives students an immediate and practical grounding in the field's basic concepts, guiding them from underlying research to practical applications in a highly conversational style. The engaging pedagogy effectively reinforces learning, and Belsky shares examples drawn from an extraordinarily broad range of cultures throughout the world.
This textbook is ideal for one term courses that take a chronological approach to developmental psychology and cover the entire lifespan.
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List 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
About the author
Born in New York City, Janet Belsky always wanted to be a writer but was also very interested in people. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she deferred to her more practical and people-loving side and got her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago. Janet spent her thirties in New York City teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, and doing clinical work in hospitals and nursing homes. In 1991, Janet moved to Tennessee with her family to write and teach undergraduate courses in psychology at Middle Tennessee State University. More recently, Janet enrolled in the Master's Program in Liberal arts at the University of Chicago.
