Infants, Children, and Adolescents

A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk′s Infants, Children, and Adolescents, takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment, providing exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, and offering research-based practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives.

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A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’sInfants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition’s extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.


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PART I. THEORY AND RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
1. History, Theory, and Research Strategies
PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
2. Genetic and Environmental Foundations
3. Prenatal Development
4. Birth and the Newborn Baby
PART III. INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
5. Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
6. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
7. Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
PART IV. EARLY CHILDHOOD: TWO TO SIX YEARS
8. Physical Development in Early Childhood
9. Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
10. Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
PART V. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: SIX TO ELEVEN YEARS
11. Physical Development in Middle Childhood
12. Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
13. Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
PART VI. ADOLESCENCE: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
14. Physical Development in Adolescence
15. Cognitive Development in Adolescence
16. Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
17. Emerging Adulthood