Closely linked to its parent text, The Development of Children, this detailed study guide helps students to understand and retain material at a much higher level than they would be likely to achieve reading the book alone. Each section includes a variety of practice tests and exercises to help integrate themes that reappear in various chapters. There are also refreshers on key concepts, guided study questions, and section reviews designed to aid the learning process.
The Study of Human Development; The Human Heritage: Genes and
Environment; Prenatal Development and Birth; Infant Capacities and the
Process of Change; The Achievements of the First Year; The End of Infancy;
Early Experience and Later Life; Language Acquisition; Early Childhood
Thought: Islands of Competence; Social Development in Early Childhood; The
Contexts of Early Childhood Development; The Cognitive and Biological
Attainments of Middle Childhood; Schooling and Development in Middle
Childhood; Social Development in Middle Childhood; Biological and Social
Foundations of Adolescence; The Cognitive and Psychological Achievements of
Adolescence
MICHAEL COLE is Professor of Psychology, Communication and Human Development at the University of California. He is based at University College San Diego, where he is the Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. SHEILA R. COLE a former journalist who specialized in writing about families, children, development and education. CYNTHIA LIGHTFOOT is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University and Division Head of Health and Human Development for the Commonwealth College. She is currently Vice President of the Jean Piaget Societ
