PART 1 – BEGINNINGS
1. An Introduction to Lifespan Development
2. The Start of Life: Prenatal Development
3. Birth and the Newborn Infant

PART 2 – INFANCY: FORMING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE
4. Physical Development in Infancy
5. Cognitive Development in Infancy
6. Social and Personality Development in Infancy

PART 3 – THE PRESCHOOL YEARS
7. Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
8. Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years

PART 4 – THE MIDDLE CHILDHOOD YEARS
9. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
10. Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood

PART 5 – ADOLESCENCE
11. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
12. Social and Personality Development in Adolescence

PART 6 – EARLY ADULTHOOD
13. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
14. Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood

PART 7 – MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
15. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
16. Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood

PART 8 – LATE ADULTHOOD
17. Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
18. Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood
19. Death and Dying 

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

Engaging features and updated content fosters student attention and reinforces relevance of course content

• UPDATED! From Research to Practice features describe a contemporary developmental research topic and explain how it can be applied to everyday problems. Located in every chapter, these features help students to see the impact of developmental research throughout society. Almost all of the Research to Practice boxes are new to the eighth edition.
• Developmental Diversity features, at least one per chapter, highlight issues relevant to today’s multicultural society.
• Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? features describe applications of specific research conducted by developmental investigators, helping students to see the relevance of the discipline to today’s world.
• UPDATED! New and updated information throughout the eighth edition ensures currency and boosts student engagement. For instance, advances in such areas as behavioral genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and cross-cultural approaches to development receive expanded and new coverage. Overall, more than a thousand new citations have been added, with most of those from articles and books published in the last few years. And new topics, many focused on contemporary issues that are relevant to students, have been added to every chapter.

Pedagogical tools promote mastery and encourage critical thinking

• Chapter-opening material helps students identify key concepts and fosters interest in the content to come.
  • NEW! Numbered learning objectives for each major section provide a means for instructors to evaluate student mastery of specific content. These clear, specific learning objects help students direct their study most effectively and efficiently, and also enable instructors to focus their assessment.
  • NEW! A brief vignette at the beginning of each chapter describes an individual or situation that is relevant to the basic developmental issues being discussed in the chapter. These engaging chapter-opening prologues introduce students to the real-world implications of the chapter topic.
  • Looking Ahead sections at the beginning of each chapter orientate readers to the topics to be covered, bridging the chapter-opening prologue with the remainder of the chapter.
• Review and Rethink sections interspersed throughout each chapter recap the main points.
• Found throughout the text, Journal Prompts elicit critical thinking about the subject matter through written responses.
• Career references throughout the text help students grasp the applicability of the material to a variety of professions, including education, nursing, social work, and health-care providers.
• A running glossary offers students definitions of key terms in the margins of the page on which the term is presented initially.
• End-of-chapter material helps students review what they’ve learned and enables them to synthesize concepts.
  • Keyed to the chapter’s learning objectives, a Looking Back summary at the end of each chapter ties the chapter together.
  • Each chapter’s epilogue refers back to the chapter’s opening prologue, further reinforcing the continuity of the material presented.
  • Putting It All Together integrative concept maps at the end of each part present a short vignette and prompt students to consider the vignette from both th

I. New and Updated Content
Engaging features and updated content fosters student attention and reinforces relevance of course content

• UPDATED! From Research to Practice features describe a contemporary developmental research topic and explain how it can be applied to everyday problems. Located in every chapter, these features help students to see the impact of developmental research throughout society. Almost all of the Research to Practice boxes are new to the eighth edition.
• UPDATED! New and updated information throughout the eighth edition ensures currency and boosts student engagement. For instance, advances in such areas as behavioral genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and cross-cultural approaches to development receive expanded and new coverage. Overall, more than a thousand new citations have been added, with most of those from articles and books published in the last few years. And new topics, many focused on contemporary issues that are relevant to students, have been added to every chapter.

Chapter-opening material helps students identify key concepts and fosters interest in the content to come.

• Numbered learning objectives for each major section provide a means for instructors to evaluate student mastery of specific content. These clear, specific learning objects help students direct their study most effectively and efficiently, and also enable instructors to focus their assessment.
• A brief vignette at the beginning of each chapter describes an individual or situation that is relevant to the basic developmental issues being discussed in the chapter. These engaging chapter-opening prologues introduce students to the real-world implications of the chapter topic.

II. Highlights of Chapter-by-Chapter Revisions
Chapter 1
• Update on the first person conceived in vitro
• Control of children’s use of the Internet
• Long-term effects of war
Chapter 2
• Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder
• Update incidence of hunger
• Updated incidence of Down’s Syndrome births
• Updated incidence of Klinfelter’s syndrome
• Abortion aftereffects
• Miscarriage
• New DSM terminology:
• Autism spectrum disorder
• Schizophrenia disorder spectrum disorder
• Major depression disorder
• Interpretation of birth defect probability
Chapter 3
• Advantages of infant massage
• U.S. infant mortality rate (new figure)
• Taste preferences being in utero
• Parents modify speech when talking to infants
Chapter 4
• Percentage of deaths from shaken baby syndrome
• Brain plasticity
• Sudden infant death syndrome statistics (new figure)
• Malnutrition in the United States
• Malnutrition worldwide (new figure)
• Percentage of low-income and poor families (new figure)
• Recent research on breast milk
• Infant massage associated with social development
Chapter 5
• Sucking reflex and transition to next stage
• Brain growth and infantile amnesia
• Usefulness of Bayley Scales
• Change in style of speech with foreigners
Chapter 6
• Infant emotions
• Fathers’ involvement child care
• Fusiform gyrus and attention to children’s faces
• “Expert” babies
• Update on families in the twenty-first century
Chapter 7
• Update on obesity in children
• Update on depressive orders in children
• Television viewing and other media use (new figure)
Chapter 8
• Pla