To Everything There Is a Season: Development in the Context of the Lifespan - Softcover

Mercer, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081918392X ISBN 13: 9780819183927

Publisher: University Press of America, 1991

Synopsis

This book takes a natural and holistic approach to the study of developmental psychology by examining the processes of continuity and change as they are affected by the individual life-cycle, by the family life cycle, and by changing social and cultural factors. The effects of biological factors, health, and physical development receive considerable attention as well. In connection with these other factors, it is emphasized that the understanding of human development must involve study of minority and Third World children, as well as the children of white middle-class Americans. Contents: Biological Background of Infancy; Physical Development: The Early Years; Language and Cognition: The Early Years; The Growth of Personality: Birth to Age 2; Physical Development in the Preschool Years; Advances in Cognition and Language; The Social Preschooler; The School Years: Learning and Schooling; The School Years: Social Development; Physical Maturation; Cognitive change in Adolesce Social and Emotional Changes in Adolescence.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 081918392X
• ISBN 13: 9780819183927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 584