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Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Belsky's popular text is more effective than ever at helping students reach new levels of understanding of developmental psychology. Belsky draws from a variety of cultures around the world to tell the story of human development, communicating the scientific understanding and human impact of developmental psychology in the highly conversational style of a great teacher. The new edition features significant research breakthroughs, effective pedagogy, and captivating examples drawn from throughout the world-and still is just the right length and level for a single-term course. And because students' and instructors' needs are changing, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable.
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List of contents
PART I The FoundationChapter 1: The People and the Field
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth
PART II Infancy and ToddlerhoodChapter 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 4: Emotional and Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
PART III Childhood Chapter 5: Early Childhood
Chapter 6: Middle Childhood
Chapter 7: Settings for Development: Home, School, and Community
PART IV Adolescence Chapter 8: Physical Development in Adolescents
Chapter 9: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development in Adolescents
PART V Early and Middle AdulthoodChapter 10: Constructing an Adult Life
Chapter 11: Social Development: Relationships and Roles
Chapter 12: Midlife
PART VI Later Life
Chapter 13: Later Life: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development
Chapter 14: The Physical Challenges of Old Age
PART VII EndingsChapter 15: Death and Dying
Final Thoughts
About the author
Janet Belsky
