Informationen zum Autor Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters. Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at?Temple University?in?Philadelphia, PA. ?Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals. Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge and previously served as Head of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development near Washington DC. He He has written several hundred professional publications on social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood. Alexandra M. Freund is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich.?Together with Paul B. Baltes in?Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, she started and co-directed the project "Personal Goals in Lifespan Development" in 2002-2003. Her recent publications are primarily concerned with the development of motivational process in adulthood. Klappentext In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to analyzing this change over time and in relation to other processes. This two-volume set presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors, and public health workers will benefit from complete coverage of the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of human change across the lifespan. Zusammenfassung In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to analyzing this change over time and in relation to other processes. This two-volume set presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors, and public health workers will benefit from complete coverage of the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of human change across the lifespan. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME I: Cognition, Biology, and Methods.Handbook Preface Richard Tufts University.1. Life Span: Concepts and Issues (Willis F.Overton Temple University).2. Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development over the Life Span (John R. Nesselroade The University of Virginia, Peter C. M. Molenaar The Pennsylvania State University).3. What Life-Span Data do we really Need (John J. McArdle University of Southern California)?4. Brain Development: An Overview (Philip David Zelazo and Wendy S. C. Lee University Minnesota).5. Biology, Evolution and Psychological Development (Gary Greenberg Wichita State, Ty Partridge Wayne State University).6. The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting over the Life Span (Michael Mascalo Merrimack College, Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University).7. Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development (Ellen Bialystok York University, Fergus I. M. Craik Rotman Research Institute).8. Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective (Clancy Blair New York University).9. Memory Development across the Lifespan (Peter A. Ornstein University...

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Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters. Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at?Temple University?in?Philadelphia, PA. ?Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals. Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge and previously served as Head of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development near Washington DC. He He has written several hundred professional publications on social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood. Alexandra M. Freund is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich.?Together with Paul B. Baltes in?Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, she started and co-directed the project "Personal Goals in Lifespan Development" in 2002-2003. Her recent publications are primarily concerned with the development of motivational process in adulthood.

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In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to analyzing this change over time and in relation to other processes. This two-volume set presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors, and public health workers will benefit from complete coverage of the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of human change across the lifespan.

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VOLUME I: Cognition, Biology, and Methods. Handbook Preface Richard Tufts University. 1. Life Span: Concepts and Issues (Willis F.Overton Temple University). 2. Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development over the Life Span (John R. Nesselroade The University of Virginia, Peter C. M. Molenaar The Pennsylvania State University). 3. What Life-Span Data do we really Need (John J. McArdle University of Southern California)? 4. Brain Development: An Overview (Philip David Zelazo and Wendy S. C. Lee University Minnesota). 5. Biology, Evolution and Psychological Development (Gary Greenberg Wichita State, Ty Partridge Wayne State University). 6. The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting over the Life Span (Michael Mascalo Merrimack College, Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University). 7. Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development (Ellen Bialystok York University, Fergus I. M. Craik Rotman Research Institute). 8. Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective (Clancy Blair New York University). 9. Memory Development across the Lifespan (Peter A. Ornstein University of North Carolina, Leah L. Light Pitzer College). 10. The Development of Mental Processing (Andreas Demetriou University of Cyprus, Antigoni Mouyi Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus, George Spanoudis University Cyprus). 11. The Development of Representation and Concepts Ulrich Müller University of Victoria, Timothy P. Racine Simon Fraser University). 12. The Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span (Robert B. Ricco California State University at San Bernardino). 13. Development of Executive Function across the Life Span Sophie Jacques Dalhousie University, Stuart Marcovitch University of North C…