The Developing Person Through Childhood

Edition after edition, Berger's highly praised, bestselling text opens students' eyes to the ways children growand the ways that growth is investigated and interpreted by developmentalists. Staying true to the hallmarks that have defined Berger's vision from the outset, the Eighth Edition again redefines excellence in a child development textbook, combining thoughtful interpretations of the latest science with new skill-building pedagogy and media tools that can revolutionize classroom and study time.

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction Defining Development Zooming In and Zooming Out A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Depression and the Brain A CASE TO STUDY: Plasticity and My Nephew David Applying the Scientific Method Cautions from Science

Chapter 2. Theories of Development Grand Theories A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: What’s a Mother For? Emergent Theories A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: My Beautiful, Hairless Babies Useful Application of Theories  Chapter 3. Heredity and Environment The Genetic Code Sex, Multiple Births, and Fertility A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: IVF and Multiple Births From One Cell to Many Genotype and Phenotype Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities Genetic Counseling and Testing A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Genetic Testing for Psychological Disorders

Chapter 4. Prenatal Development and Birth From Zygote to Newborn Risk Reduction A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Jail Those Drunken Women? A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "What Do People Live to Do?" Birth A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "You’d Throw Him in a Dumpster"

Chapter 5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development Body Changes Brain Development A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Plasticity and Deprivation Sensation and Movement Public Health Measures

Chapter 6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development Sensorimotor Intelligence A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Object Permanence Revisited Information Processing Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?

Chapter 7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Parents on Autopilot Emotional Development Theories About Infant Psychosocial Development A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "Let’s Go to Grandma’s" The Development of Social Bonds A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: The Still-Face Technique Conclusions in Theory and Practice

Chapter 8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development Body Changes Brain Development Injuries and Abuse A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: "My Baby Swallowed Poison" A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: A Series of Suspicious Events

Chapter 9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development Piaget and Vygotsky Children’s Theories Language A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Mommy the Brat Early-Childhood Education

Chapter 10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development Emotional Development Parents A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Planning Punishment A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: Berger and Freud

Chapter 11. The School Years: Biosocial Development A Healthy Time Brain Development Children with Special Needs A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE:: Billy: Dynamo or Dynamite? A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Overdosing and Underdosing

Chapter 12. The School Years: Cognitive Development Building on Theory LanguageA VIEW FROM SCIENCE: SES and Language Learning Teaching and Learning A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: International Achievement Tests

13. The School Years: Psychosocial Development
The Peer Group Families and Children A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: I Always Dressed One in Blue Stuff The Nature of the Child