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Known for its clear, straightforward writing style, comprehensive coverage, strong and current research-based approach, and excellent visuals and tables, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT offers sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality, and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. This unique, topical organization helps you comprehend the processes of transformation occurring in each key area of human development. This edition includes a clear focus on the complex interactions of nature and nurture in development and a more integrated coverage of culture and diversity. Key Feature Coverage of Vygotsky's theories of development is consolidated in Chapter 7, "Cognition." The text features an integrated topical and chronological approach. Applications boxes examine how knowledge has been used to optimize development in a domain of development. Explorations boxes allow for more in-depth investigation of research on a topic. Co-author Elizabeth Rider brings her expertise in gender issues by writing the text. Chapter 10, Language and Education, provides additional focus on language development and educational achievement. Chapter 8, Memory and Information Processing, features a section on autobiographical memory with reference to scripts and eyewitness memory and a revised section on recall in infancy. A Nature & Nurture theme index appears in the preface of the text. Building on the books reputation for a solid research basis, Sigelman and Rider include hundreds of new research references in this edition. Table of Contents 1.Understanding Life-Span Human Development 2.Theories of Human Development 3. Genes, Environment, and Development 4. Prenatal Development and Birth 5. Health and Physical Development 6. Perception 7. Cognition 8. Memory and Information Processing 9. Intelligence and Creativity 10. Language and Education 11. Self and Personality 12. Gender Roles and Sexuality 13. Social Cognition and Moral Development 14. Attachment and Social Relationships 15. The Family 16. Developmental Psychopathology 17. The Final Challenge: Death and Dying