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Development Across the Life Span, Tenth Edition, provides a broad overview of the field of human development. It covers the entire range of the human life, from the moment of conception through death. The text furnishes a broad, comprehensive introduction to the field, covering basic theories and research findings as well as highlighting current applications outside the laboratory. It covers the life span chronologically, encompassing the prenatal period, infancy and toddlerhood, the preschool years, middle childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Within these periods, it focuses on physical, cognitive, and social and personality development. This edition includes several important revisions to address the changes and challenges society—and the field of lifespan development—have witnessed recently. Although we don't yet fully know the long-term effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on our lifespan development, its immediate impact has been referenced throughout the chapters.