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Santrock Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
John W. Santrock
The Life-Span Perspective
Introduction

Chapter Outline

  1. THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE
    1. The Importance of Life-Span Development
    2. The Historical Perspective
      1. Child Development
      2. Adult Development
      3. Characteristics of the Life-Span Perspective
  2. II. THE NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT
    1. Biological, Cognitive, and Socioemotional Processes
    2. Periods of Development
      1. Prenatal Period to Late Adulthood
      2. Happiness Across the Life Span
    3. Conceptions of Age
    4. Developmental Issues
      1. Nature and Nurture
      2. Continuity and Discontinuity
      3. Stability and Change
      4. Evaluating the Developmental Issues
  3. III. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT
    1. Theories
      1. Psychoanalytic Theories
        1. Freud's Theory
        2. Erikson's Theory
        3. Evaluating the Psychoanalytic Theories
      2. Cognitive Theories
        1. Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory
        2. Vygotsky's Sociocultural Cognitive Theory
        3. The Information-Processing Approach
        4. Evaluating the Cognitive Theories
      3. Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories
        1. Pavlov's Classical Conditioning
        2. Skinner's Operant Conditioning
        3. Social Cognitive Theory
        4. Evaluating the Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories
      4. Ethological Theory
        1. Evaluating Ethological Theory
      5. Ecological Theory
        1. Evaluating Ecological Theory
      6. An Eclectic Orientation
    2. Research Methods
      1. Observation
      2. Interviews and Questionnaires
      3. Case Studies
      4. Standardized Tests
      5. Life-History Records
      6. Physiological Research and Research with Animals
      7. Correlational Research
      8. Experimental Research
      9. Time Span of Research
        1. Cross-Sectional Approach
        2. Longitudinal Approach
        3. Sequential Approach
        4. Cohort Effects
    3. Ethics








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