{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-life-span-development-volume-1-isbn-9780470390115","title":"The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods\u003c\/i\u003e presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Life-Span Development: Concepts and Issues 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development Over the Life Span: Concepts and Issues 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 What Life-Span Data Do We Really Need? 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Brain Development: An Overview 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Biology, Evolution, and Psychological Development 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting over the Life Span 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Memory Development across the Life Span 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Development of Mental Processing 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Development of Representation and Concepts 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Development of Executive Function across the Life Span 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Language Development 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Self-Regulation: Integration of Cognition and Emotion 509\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective 584\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development 628\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Development of Knowing 671\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Spatial Development 720\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Gesturing across the Life Span 754\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Developmental Psychopathology—Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective 792\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life 837\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Thriving across the Life Span 882\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index 927\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 971\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard M. Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton\u003c\/b\u003e is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Overton has been Editor of \u003ci\u003eMonographs of the Society for Research in Child Development\u003c\/i\u003e; Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eDevelopmental Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990251716837,"sku":"NP9780470390115","price":196.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470390115.jpg?v=1761787070","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-handbook-of-life-span-development-volume-1-isbn-9780470390115","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}