Book Title: Lifespan Development
Book Description: Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.
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Lifespan Development Copyright © by Stephanie Hazen and Celeste Mazur is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
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Lifespan Development Copyright © by Stephanie Hazen and Celeste Mazur is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This Open Textbook is derived from the Lumen Learning course Lifespan Development which is based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology. It also includes content from “Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective” by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French (Published 2021, 2019, 2017), and “Developmental Psychology: Lifespan”, First edition (2022) by Bridget Reigstad, Ph.D., LP.