Child Development | Ninth Edition | By Pearson

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 800

Release Date: 25-03-2017

Part Number: 9789332585201

Details: A best-selling, topically organized child development text, Berk’s Child Development is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural and multi-cultural focus, rich examples and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.
Features:
1. Thoroughly Engaging Writing Style
2. Appealing and Meaningful Applications
3. Outstanding Pedagogical Features
4. Beautiful Artwork, Graphics and Photographs
5. New and Enhanced Material in Each Chapter
Contents:
Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
1 History, Theory and Applied Directions
2 Research Strategies
Part II: Foundations of Development
3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development and Birth
4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills and Perceptual Capacities
5 Physical Growth
Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge and Vygotskian Perspectives
7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective
8 Intelligence
9 Language Development
Part IV: Personality and Social Development
10 Emotional Development
11 Self and Social Understanding
12 Moral Development
13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
Part V: Contexts for Development
14 The Family
15 Peers, Media and Schooling

EAN: 1211111942267

Package Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English