Child Development 11e

'Child Development 11e'
by 'John W. Santrock'

Product Description
John Santrock’s Child Development is widely adopted for being the most accurate and up-to-date, topically-organized text on the market. The learning goals-driven learning system has helped students across the country obtain a clearer understanding about child development. This fully revised 11th edition continues the tradition of currency with hundreds of new citations, including material from chapters in the 6th edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology.

About the Author
John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches developmental psychology and educational psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and introductory psychology at the undergraduate level. Dr. Santrock's research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. His research has included publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology that focus on the contextual aspects of affectively-toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He recently was a member of the editorial board of Developmental Psychology and his publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Eighth Edition; LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT, Seventh Edition; CHILDREN, Sixth Edition; PSYCHOLOGY, Sixth Edition; and EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.

Table of Contents

Section 1: The Nature of Child Development
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Science of Child Development
Section 2: Biologial Processes, Physical Development, and Perceptual Development
Chapter 3: Biological Beginnings
Chapter 4: Prenatal Development and Birth
Chapter 5: Physical Development and Health
Chapter 6: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
Section 3: Cognition and Language
Chapter 7: Cognitive Development Approaches
Chapter 8: Information Processing
Chapter 9: Intelligence
Chapter 10: Language Development
Section 4: Socioemotional Development
Chapter 11: Emotional Development
Chapter 12: The Self and Identity
Chapter 13: Gender
Chapter 14: Moral Development
Section 5: Social Contexts of Development
Chapter 15: Families
Chapter 16: Peers
Chapter 17: Schools and Achievement
Chapter 18: Culture