From newborn to older adulthood, people continue to develop and change physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. Features covering cultural diversity, health, and safety are included throughout the text.
Lifespan Development
... and it applies to infants, children, and adults. Information processing capacities in infancy, such as attention, memory, and processing speed, have been shown to predict cognitive ability and intelligence through late adolescence ...
Santrock et al's Lifespan Development, the leading lifespan development text in Canada, aims to provide an engaging, clear, comprehensive and Canadian introduction to the concepts, issues, and theories surrounding lifespan development.
This text is a comprehensive yet understandable introduction to the nature of human growth and development. Organised chronologically, the text offers balanced coverage of the entire life cycle, this integrated...
Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a whole, this book refutes any unidirectional conception of the brain-culture dynamic. Each is influenced by and modifies the other.
About one half of employed adolescents work 15 or fewer hours per week (Bachman et al., 2014). Working few hours (15 or less) appears to have little positive or negative effect on adolescents' academic or psychosocial functioning ...
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The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders.