The Growing Child / Edition 1

by Denise Boyd, Helen Bee

Overview

For undergraduate courses in Child Development taught Chronologically.

Boyd/Bee provides students the most support for learning and success.

The Growing Child emphasizes how the three domains of development — physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional — interact with each other and with the environment to affect developmental outcomes. Featuring an innovative student-focused format, it provides the self-assessment tools necessary to keep students engaged in active learning from start to finish, as well as the most support to help students organize, understand, and apply the material.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205545964
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	01/30/2009
Series:	MyDevelopmentLab Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Denise Boyd received her Ed.D. in educational psychology from the University of Houston and has been a psychology instructor in the Houston Community College System since 1988. From 1995 until 1998, she chaired the psychology, sociology, and anthropology department at Houston Community College—Central. She has coauthored four other Allyn and Bacon texts: with Helen Bee, Lifespan Development (Fourth Edition), The Developing Child (Twelfth Edition), and The Growing Child (First Edition); and with Genevieve Stevens, Current Readings in Lifespan Development. A licensed psychologist, she has presented a number of papers at professional meetings, reporting research in child, adolescent, and adult development. She has also presented workshops for teachers whose students range from preschool to college.

Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS

1 Basic Concepts and Methods

2 Theories of Development

3 Prenatal Development and Birth

II. INFANCY

4 Physical Development and Health in Infancy

5 Cognitive Development in Infancy

6 Social and Personality Development in Infancy

III. EARLY CHILDHOOD

7 Physical Development in Early Childhood

8 Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

9 Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood

IV. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

10 Physical Development in Middle Childhood

11 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

12 Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood

V. ADOLESCENCE

13 Physical Development in Adolescence

14 Cognitive Development in Adolescence

15 Social and Personality Development in Adolescence

EPILOGUE: THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT