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NEW TO THIS EDITION: • New topics expose students to current research issues in human development. Topics include: emotional development, bullying, early forms of moral understanding, the “replication crisis” in psychology, the role of gestures in cognitive development, the study of false belief in infancy, the “teenage brain” and its implications for adolescent behavior, the study of the “oldest old,” and the population of centenarians. • Key Terms lists now appear at the end of each chapter to help students master the vocabulary of research methods. • New boxes, exercises, glossary items, and tables and figures bring the book completely up to date. • Approximately 400 new references reflect recent scholarship in the field KEY FEATURES: • Flexible chapters provide instructors the ability to cover material in any order they prefer. • A student-friendly design and engaging approach provides extended coverage of especially interesting and important contemporary topics through chapter boxes, tables, figures, and photos. • Built-in study tools, including exercises, chapter-ending summaries, key terms lists, a glossary, citation of further sources, and relevant websites, help students master key content.
Social Development
Social Development
Like Chapter 13, this chapter concentrates on development during the postinfancy childhood years. The focus now is on the child’s social development, a topic at least as large and as methodologically challenging as the topic of how cognition develops.
The chapter is divided into five sections. The first four sections are directed to important outcomes of social development. Two such outcomes, attachment and temperament, were discussed in Chapter 12. In this chapter I add four others: the development of moral standards and moral behaviors, the development of emotions and emotion understanding, the development of gender typing and gender differences, and the development of relations with peers.
Identifying and measuring important outcomes speaks to one of the two general issues in the ...
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