New! Applications in Life-Span Development Interludes: Appearing in each chapter, these interludes focus on health and well-being, parenting, and education, giving students a sense that life-span development has personal meaning for them. Among the topics covered are facilitating infant and toddler development, reducing adolescent pregnancy, and communicating with children about divorce.
Expanded coverage of adult development and aging: An important but often neglected topic in life-span development texts, topics new to this edition include metacognition in middle adulthood, cognitive neuroscience and aging, language development and aging, technology and older adults, and recent research on the decline in brain volume in later adulthood.
Recent Research: This edition of Life-Span Development presents the latest, most contemporary research on each period of the human life span. The 11th edition includes more than 2,100 citations from the twenty-first century with more than 1,000 of these from 2004, 2005, and 2006. The 11th Edition also includes discussion of material from research reviews in two very recently pubished major handbooks in life-span development: 1) Handbook of Child Psychology (2006) and 2) Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (2006).
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