lifespan

contents
1 Understanding Life-Span Human Development 1
Early Beginnings 11
The Modern Life-Span Perspective 12
1.3 How Is Development Studied 14
The Scientific Method 14
Sample Selection 14
Data Collection 15
1.1 How Should We Think about Development 2
Defining Development 2
Conceptualizing the Life Span 3
exploration 1.1 Are You an Adult Yet 6
Framing the Nature–Nurture Issue 7
Grasping the Ecology of Development 8
1.2 What Is the Science of Life-Span
Development 10
Goals of Study 10
exploration 1.2 Excerpt from Darwin’s Baby Biography 11
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exploration 1.3 Data Collection Methods in Action:
Measuring Anger 17
The Case Study, Experimental, and Correlational Methods 17
Developmental Research Designs 21
exploration 1.4 Cohort Effects: Tracking the Baby
Boomers 22
engagement 1.1 Recognizing Research Strategies 24
1.4 What Special Challenges Do Developmental
Scientists Face 25
Conducting Culturally Sensitive Research 25
Protecting the Rights of Research Participants 26
Chapter Summary 28
Key Terms 29
Media Resources 29
2 Theories of Human Development 30
2.1 Developmental Theories and the Issues
They Raise 32
engagement 2.1 Where Do You Stand on Major
Developmental Issues 33
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The Goodness–Badness of Human Nature 34
Nature–Nurture 34
Activity–Passivity 34
Continuity–Discontinuity 34
Universality–Context Specificity 35
2.2 Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory 36
Instincts and Unconscious Motives 36
Id, Ego, and Superego 37
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