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Unlock academic success with this comprehensive, high-utility study companion tailored directly for Laura E. Berk's market-leading textbook, "Development Through the Lifespan" (7th Edition). Designed specifically for psychology, nursing, education, and human development students, this document serves as the ultimate resource for mastering course content, acing weekly quizzes, and dominating final exams

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,Brief contents
Part I: Theory and research in human developmenT
1 History, Theory, and Research Strategies 2

Part II: FoundaTions oF developmenT
2 Genetic and Environmental Foundations 42
3 Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn Baby 74

Part III: inFancy and Toddlerhood: The FirsT Two years
4 Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood 114
5 Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood 148
6 Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood 182

Part IV: early childhood: Two To six years
7 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 214
8 Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood 256

Part V: middle childhood: six To eleven years
9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood 292
10 Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood 334

Part VI: adolescence: The TransiTion To adulThood
11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence 366
12 Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence 406

Part VII: early adulThood
13 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood 436
14 Emotional and Social Development in Early Adulthood 468

Part VIII: middle adulThood
15 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood 506
16 Emotional and Social Development in Middle Adulthood 536

Part IX: laTe adulThood
17 Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood 568
18 Emotional and Social Development in Late Adulthood 608

Part X: The end oF liFe
19 Death, Dying, and Bereavement 644

, s e v e n T h e d i T i o n



Development through
the Lifespan



Laura E. Berk
Illinois State University

, Dedication
To David, Peter, and Melissa, with love



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Copyright © 2018 by Laura E. Berk. Copyrights © 2014, 2010, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1998 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berk, Laura E., author.
Title: Development through the lifespan / Laura E. Berk, Illinois State
University.
Description: Seventh Edition. | Boston : Pearson, 2018. | Revised edition of
the author’s Development through the lifespan, [2014]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038686 | ISBN 9780134419695 (Student edition) | ISBN 0134419693
Subjects: LCSH: Developmental psychology–Textbooks.
Classification: LCC BF713 .B465 2018 | DDC 155–dc23 LC record available at Student Edition
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038686 ISBN 10: 0-13-441969-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-13-441969-5
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Instructor’s Review Edition
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ISBN 13: 978-0-13-441991-6

À la Carte Edition
ISBN 10: 0-13-441972-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-13-441972-5

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