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Summary
Summary
In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.
Author Notes
Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters.
Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology , and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals.
Table of Contents
| Volume I Cognition, Biology, and Methods |
| Handbook Preface Richard Lerner Tufts University |
| 1 Life Span: Concepts and IssuesWillis F. Overton |
| 2 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development over the Life SpanJohn R. Nesselroade and Peter C. M. Molenaar |
| 3 What Life-Span Data do we really Need?John J. McArdle |
| 4 Brain Development: An OverviewPhilip David Zelazo and Wendy S. C. Lee |
| 5 Biology, Evolution and Psychological DevelopmentGary Greenberg |
| 6 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting over the Life SpanMichael F. Mascalo and Kurt W. Fischer |
| 7 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive DevelopmentFergus I. M. Craik |
| 8 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience PerspectiveClancy Blair |
| 9 Memory Development across the LifespanPeter A. Ornstein and Leah L. Light |
| 10 The Development of Mental ProcessingAndreas Demetriou and Antigoni Mouyi and George Spanoudis |
| 11 The Development of Representation and Concepts Ulrich Müller University of VictoriaTimothy P. Racine Simon |
| 12 The Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life SpanRobert B. Ricco |
| 13 Development of Executive Function across the Life Span Sophie Jacques Dalhousie UniversityStuart Marcovitch |
| 14 Language DevelopmentBrian MacWhinney |
| 15 Self-Regulation: The Integration of Cognition and EmotionMegan M. McClelland and Emily E. Messersmith and Shauna Tominey |
| 16 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and ResistanceElliot Turiel |
| 17 The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational PerspectiveJeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis |
| 18 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human DevelopmentMichael Lewis |
| 19 The Development of KnowingMichael J. Chandler and Susan A. J. Birch |
| 20 Spatial DevelopmentStella F. Lourenco |
| 21 Gesturing Across the Life SpanJana M. Iverson |
| 22 Developmental Psychopathology Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems PerspectiveSebastiano Santostefano |
| 23 The Meaning of Wisdom and its Development throughout LifeTzur M. Karelitz and Linda Jarvin and Robert J. Sternberg |
| 24 Thriving Across the Life SpanMatthew J. Bundick and David S. Yeager and Pamela Ebstyne and William Damon |
