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Lifespan Development,7/e by Denise G. Boyd and Helen L. Bee thoroughly and accessibly addresses the most critical concepts of development. Through their engaging writing style, the authors have made more abstract material about developmental theories approachable to students. Readers will appreciate both the applied nature of this title and the clarity of the authors’ presentation of current research. Students will emerge from your course with a thorough understanding of developmental science and will be able to apply this understanding to their own lives.

Lifespan Development, Global Edition

• Dedication


• Brief Contents


• List of Features


• Contents


• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• Part I: Foundations


• Chapter 1: Human Development and Research Methodology


• An Introduction to Human Development


• Philosophical and Scientific Roots


• The Lifespan Perspective


• The Domains and Periods of Development


• test yourself before going on


• Key Issues in the Study of Human Development


• Nature versus Nurture


• Continuity versus Discontinuity


• Three Kinds of Change


• Research Report: An Example of a Cohort Effect: Children and Adolescents in the Great Depression


• Contexts of Development


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• Research Methods and Designs


• The Goals of Developmental Science


• Descriptive Methods


• No Easy Answers: It Depends . . .


• Developmental Science At Home: Correlation versus Causation


• The Experimental Method


• Designs for Studying Age-Related Changes


• Cross-Cultural Research


• Research Ethics


• test yourself before going on


• Summary


• An Introduction to Human Development (pp. 24?28)


• Key Issues in the Study of Human Development (pp. 28?32)


• Research Methods and Designs (pp. 33?41)


• Key Terms


• Chapter Test


• Chapter 2: Theories of Development


• Psychoanalytic Theories


• Freud?s Psychosexual Theory


• No Easy Answers: The Repressed-Memory Controversy


• Erikson?s Psychosocial Theory


• Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Theories


• test yourself before going on


• Learning Theories


• Classical Conditioning


• Developmental Science in the Classroom: Systematic Desensitization


• Skinner?s