Development Across the Life Span

User-friendly in approach with a variety of pedagogical tools and an abundance of take-home information, this broad, balanced, comprehensive overview of life-span development integrates theories, research, and applications with particular emphasis on relevance to students' lives. Organised chronologically, it covers the entire range of human life from the moment of conception through death and examines both the traditional areas of the field as well as more recent innovations.

This user-friendly text provides a broad, balanced overview of the discipline of life-span development. Organized chronologically, it introduces readers to the theories, research, and applications of the field. It renders a variety of pedagogical tools to make the field of life-span development engaging, accessible, and of immediate relevance to readers. Expands discussions of behavioral genetics, cloning, evolutionary approaches, Vygotsky, ethnography, gene therapy, new breast-feeding guidelines, automaticity in information processing, and adds hundreds of new research citations. For anyone interested in life-span development, life-span developmental psychology, or human development.