The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.

Preface ix Contributors xviii 1 Life-Span Development: Concepts and Issues 1 2 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development Over the Life Span: Concepts and Issues 30 3 What Life-Span Data Do We Really Need? 55 4 Brain Development: An Overview 89 5 Biology, Evolution, and Psychological Development 115 6 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting over the Life Span 149 7 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development 195 8 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective 226 9 Memory Development across the Life Span 259 10 The Development of Mental Processing 306 11 The Development of Representation and Concepts 346 12 Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span 391 13 Development of Executive Function across the Life Span 431 14 Language Development 467 15 Self-Regulation: Integration of Cognition and Emotion 509 16 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance 554 17 The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective 584 18 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development 628 19 The Development of Knowing 671 20 Spatial Development 720 21 Gesturing across the Life Span 754 22 Developmental Psychopathology—Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective 792 23 The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life 837 24 Thriving across the Life Span 882 Author Index 927 Subject Index 971