The Developing Person Through the Life Span

Twelfth Edition

Publication Date: April 30, 2023

Paperback ISBN: 9781319498528

Pages: 816

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Kathleen Bergers signature narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and focus on universal themes captivates students from the outset. Including exceptionally fast moving areas such as brain development and psychopathology (incorporating DSM-5 updates) this edition remains relevant....

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PART I The Beginnings
Chapter 1 The Science of Human Development
Understanding How and Why
A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Do You Need Friends?
The Life-Span Perspective
   A CASE TO STUDY: A Very Rude Child?
Doing Science
Cautions and Challenges from Science
   CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Science and Truth
Chapter 2 Theories of Development
The Genetic Code
CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Too Many Boys?
New Cells, New People
A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Golden Rice
From Genotype to Phenotype
A CASE TO STUDY: Women Engineers
VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: One Baby or More?
Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities
CAREER ALERT: The Genetic Counselor
Chapter 3 The New Genetics
The Genetic Code
CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Too Many Boys?
New Cells, New People
A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Golden Rice
From Genotype to Phenotype
A CASE TO STUDY: Women Engineers
VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: One Baby or More?
Chromosomal and Genetic Differences
CAREER ALERT: The Genetic Counselor
Chapter 4 Prenatal Development and Birth
Prenatal Development
     INSIDE THE BRAIN: Essential Connections
Birth
     VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: The Apgar
     CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Drugs in the Birth Process
Problems and Solutions
     A CASE TO STUDY: He Cannot Get the Right Words Out
     A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Psychological Disorders
The New Family

PART II The First Two Years
Chapter 5 The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
Body Changes
     INSIDE THE BRAIN: Neuroscience Vocabulary
Perceiving and Moving
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Sticky Mittens
Surviving in Good Health
    A CASE TO STUDY: Scientist at Work
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Immunization
Chapter 6 The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
The Eager Mind
Piaget’s Sensorimotor Intelligence
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: How to Measure Object Permanence
Language in the First Two Years
    A CASE TO STUDY: Early Speech
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Early Communication and Language
Chapter 7 The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development
Emotional Development
Temperament and Personality
     A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Temperament over the Years
The Development of Social Bonds
     CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Attachment Parenting
     A CASE TO STUDY: Can We Bear This Commitment?
VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Developing Attachment]
Theories of Infant Psychosocial Development
Who Should Care for Babies?

PART III Early Childhood
Chapter 8 Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
Chapter 9 Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
Thinking During Early Childhood
    INSIDE THE BRAIN: The Role of Experience
Two Theories of Cognition
    A CASE TO STUDY: Stones in the Belly
Language Learning
Early-Childhood Schooling
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Comparing Child-Centered and Teacher-Directed Preschools
    CAREER ALERT: The Preschool Teacher
Chapter 10 Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development
Emotional Development
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Waiting for the Marshmallow
Play
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: More Play Time, Less Screen Time
Challenges for Caregivers
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Spare the Rod?
Becoming Boys and Girls: Sex and Gender
    A CASE TO STUDY: The Berger Daughters

PART IV Middle Childhood
Chapter 11 Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
A Healthy Time
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Making Music
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Childhood Obesity Around the World
Brain Development
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: The Flynn Effect
Children with Distinct Educational Needs
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Drugs for Children
    A CASE TO STUDY: The Gifted and Talented
Chapter 12 Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
Thinking
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Two or Twenty Pills a Day?
    INSIDE THE BRAIN: Coordination and Capacity
Language
Teaching and Learning
    A CASE TO STUDY: Motivating the Child
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Education in Middle Childhood
Chapter 13 Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development
The Nature of the Child
Families During Middle Childhood
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Family Structures Around the World
Other Children
    A CASE TO STUDY: Stop and Think

PART V Adolescence
Chapter 14 Adolescence: Biosocial Development
Puberty Begins
    INSIDE THE BRAIN: Lopsided Growth
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Stress and Puberty
Growth and Nutrition
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Satisfied with Your Body?
Sexual Maturation
Chapter 15 Adolescence: Cognitive Development
Self and Logic
Modes of Thinking
    A CASE TO STUDY: Biting the Policeman
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Longevity Versus Immediate Approval
Secondary Education
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: How Many Adolescents Are in School?
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Creating a Valid Test
    CAREER ALERT: The Teacher
    INSIDE THE BRAIN Save for a Rainy Day?
Chapter 16 Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
Identity
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Where Are You From?
Close Relationships
    A CASE TO STUDY: The Naiveté of Your Author
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Adolescent Bullying
Sadness and Anger
    INSIDE THE BRAIN: Impulses, Rewards, and Reflection
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Morals, Values, and Drug Use

PART VI Emerging Adulthood
Chapter 17 Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Biological Universals
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: WEIRD People
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Highlights in the Journey to Adulthood
    A CASE TO STUDY: Anita, the Exercise-Deficient Basketball Star
Sexual Activity
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Premarital Sex
Taking Risks
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: An Adrenaline Junkie
Chapter 18 Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development
A New Level of Thinking
    INSIDE THE BRAIN: Really a Stage?
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Fire and Alcohol
Ethics and Religion
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: COVID-19 Vaccination
Cognitive Growth and Higher Education
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Women and College
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Why Study?
Chapter 19 Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Who Am I Now?
    CAREER ALERT The Career Counselor
Social Connections
Romantic Partners
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Living Together
    A CASE TO STUDY: My Students, My Daughters, and Me
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Making Divorce More Likely?
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Marital Status in the United States

PART VII Adulthood
Chapter 20 Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Growing Older
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Hormone Replacement
Other Health Hazards
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Adult Overweight Around the World
Measuring Health
Chapter 21 Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Intelligence Changes During Adulthood?
Components of Intelligence: Many and Varied
Selective Gains and Losses
   VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Media Use Among U.S. Adults
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Who Wins in Soccer?
   A CASE TO STUDY: Parenting Expertise
Chapter 22 Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Personality Development in Adulthood
Intimacy: Connecting with Others
    A CASE TO STUDY: The Benefits of Marriage
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Family Connections
Generativity: The Work of Adulthood
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: The Skipped-Generation Family
    CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: Accommodating Diversity
    CAREER ALERT: The Physical Therapist

PART VIII Late Adulthood
Chapter 23 Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development
Prejudice and Predictions
    A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: I’m Not Like Those Other Old People
Adjusting to Changes
    A CASE TO STUDY: Sex Among Older Adults
Theories of Aging
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Social Comparison: Elders Behind the Wheel
Chapter 24 Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
The Brain During Late Adulthood
    OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES: Slower Thinking
Step-by-Step Processing
Neurocognitive Disorders
    A CASE TO STUDY: The More You Know . . .
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Global Prevalence of Major Neurocognitive Disorders
New Cognitive Development
Chapter 25 Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Theories of Late Adulthood
    A CASE TO STUDY: Saving Old Newspapers
Activities in Late Adulthood
The Frail Elderly
    A CASE TO STUDY: A Trusted Sister
    VISUALIZING DEVELOPMENT: Life After 65: Living Independently
CAREER ALERT: The Developmental Scientist
Epilogue Death, Dying, and the Affirmation of Life
Death and Hope
Choices in Dying
    A CASE TO STUDY: What Is Your Intention?
    OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES: The “Right to Die”?
Affirmation of Life

Appendix More About Research Methods

Visual storytelling is used to explain important concepts in life-span development around the globe, making this a diverse title suitable for various student learning styles.
Contrasting Perspectives asks students to look at both sides of a controversial issue (from pre-natal sex selection to e-cigarettes), encouraging critical thinking, including examining ones own biases.
Includes contemporary neuroscience research, broadening students perspective on psychology and its potential applications and remaining relevant to todays students.
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development, embedding diversity and inclusion throughout.

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New to this Edition:

Every chapter addresses diversity and encourages discussion of differences- Cross-cultural, international, intersectional, multiethnic, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, gender identity—all of these words and ideas are vital to appreciating how people develop.
100’s of new references on topics such as, prenatal nutrition, the microbiome, early-childhood education, autism spectrum disorder, high-stakes testing, gender-nonbinary children, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on emerging adults. Meaning there is something to interest everyone.
Neuroscience is referenced in nearly every chapter with diverse media including graphs, case studies and photos, catering to all learning needs.

“The best and most inclusive Lifespan Textbook that is available.”
- Steve Carter, El Centro College

“This text breaks down the expansive and complicated topic of life-span development in a digestible way. It uses relevant research to support claims. Its coverage of each age group in the life span is
comprehensive and informative.”
- Caitlynn Hansen, San Joaquin Delta College

“This is the most readable, enjoyable textbook I have used in my entire academic career. Students love it.”
- Catherine Deering, Clayton State Univ

Kathleen Stassen Berger

Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Throughout most of her professional career, Berger has worked at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of ages and interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations. Berger is also the author of A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and Invitation to the Life Span. Her developmental texts are currently being used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide and are available in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as English. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying, and she has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning as her four daughters and three grandsons continue to develop, as she interacts with students every semester.

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