A Topical Approach to Life-span Development ISE

John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the University of Charleston, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology at the undergraduate level. In 2006, Dr. Santrock received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in Teaching Award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology on the contextual aspects of affectively toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He has been on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 13th Edition; Life-Span Development, 14th Edition; Adolescence, 14th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.

Section 1: The Life-Span Perspective
1.Introduction


Section 2: Biological Processes, Physical Development, and Health
2.Biological Beginnings
3.Physical Development and Biological Aging
4.Health
5.Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development


Section 3: Cognitive Processes and Development
6. Cognitive Developmental Approaches
7. Information Processing
8. Intelligence
9. Language Development


Section 4: Socioemotional Processes and Development
10. Emotional Development and Attachment
11. The Self, Identity, and Personality
12. Gender and Sexuality
13. Moral Development, Values, and Religion


Section 5: Social Contexts of Development
14. Families, Relationships, and Parenting
15. Peers and the Sociocultural World
16. Schools, Achievement, and Work


Section 6: Endings
17. Death, Dying, and Grieving