Lifespan Development. Tara L. Kuther

streamlined and reduced to highlight the most important content.

      Critical Thinking

      Critical Thinking Questions: At the end of each main section within the chapter, these Thinking in Context critical thinking questions encourage readers to compare concepts, apply theoretical perspectives, and consider applications of research findings presented.

      Boxed Features: Each boxed feature appears in every chapter and concludes with critical thinking questions that challenge students to assess and evaluate the issues highlighted in that feature. The boxed features exemplify the applied, contextual, and research-based theme of Lifespan Development: Lives in Context:

       Lives in Context

       Applying Developmental Science

       Cultural Influences on Development

       Brain and Biological Influences on Development

      Case-Based Application: Each chapter closes with a case scenario, Apply Your Knowledge, followed by in-depth questions that require students to apply their understanding to address a particular situation or problem.

      Supplements

      Original Video

      Lifespan Development in Context, Second Edition, is accompanied by a robust collection of Lives in Context Video Cases that demonstrate key concepts through real-life examples, as well as Dr. Kuther’s Chalk Talks, a series of whiteboard-style videos carefully crafted to engage students with course content. All videos are accessible through the interactive eBook available to pair with the text.

      For Instructors

      SAGE edge is a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of tools and resources. At edge.sagepub.com/kuther2e, instructors using this book can access the password-protected customizable PowerPoint slides, along with an extensive Test Bank built on Bloom’s taxonomy that features multiple-choice, true/false, essay, and short answer questions for each chapter. The instructor’s manual is mapped to learning objectives and features lecture notes, discussion questions, chapter exercises, class assignments, and more.

      For Students

      Free resources are available at http://edge.sagepub.com/kuther2e to promote mastery of course material. Students are encouraged to access articles from award-winning SAGE Journals, listen to podcasts, and watch open-access video resources. Students can then practice with mobile-friendly Flashcards and Quizzes to find out what they’ve learned. The text can also be paired with an interactive eBook that offers one-click access to these study tools and to the book’s Original Video package for a seamless learning experience.

      What’s New in Lifespan Development: Lives in Context, Second Edition?

      I approached writing the second edition of Lifespan Development: Lives in Context with three goals:

      1 Increase the coverage of context, including ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity.I addressed this goal by adding findings and sections covering contextual and cultural influences throughout each chapter. For example, the Cultural Influences on Development feature in each chapter speaks to the role of cultural factors in development.

      2 Update the text to include the most current research to date.Our knowledge of human development is rapidly expanding. My goal was to select, highlight, and integrate cutting-edge research findings with existing theory and research. The second edition includes over 1,400 references published since 2016, including nearly 900 published in 2017 and 2018.

      3 Streamline the text.My goal for this second edition was to paradoxically increase coverage of current research while increasing concision. This goal is influenced by my observations of my own students’ use of this text. I approached this goal by carefully considering each section of each chapter and painstakingly paring down the verbiage and excess detail while retaining and enhancing the scientific basis for conclusions. As a result, each chapter is shorter with streamlined, but not reduced, coverage of the major findings in developmental science. I have also sharpened the chapter learning objectives and summaries.

      Below I list the major revisions reflected in this second edition of Lifespan Development: Lives in Context. It is my hope that this volume will improve instructors’ and students’ experiences in and out of class—and that students will be inspired to apply the findings of developmental science to their lives.

      Chapter 1

       Updated What Is Lifespan Human Development?, including Development Is Multidimensional, Development Is Multidirectional, and Development Is Plastic

       Added new coverage of age-graded influences, history-graded influences, and nonnormative influences to Development Is Influenced by Multiple Contexts

       Updated and revised Cultural Influences on Development: Defining Culture

       Updated Basic Issues in Lifespan Human Development, including Continuities and Discontinuities in Development, Individuals Are Active in Development, and Nature and Nurture Influence Development

       Updated coverage and evaluation of Freud’s Psychosexual Theory

       Updated Operant Conditioning, Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory, and Information Processing Theory

       Updated and expanded coverage of Ethology and Evolutionary Developmental Theory

       New Applying Developmental Science: The Real-World Significance of Developmental Research, highlighting the ethical issues that arise in developmental science and its implications for international policy

       New coverage of Physiological Measures

       New feature on Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Methods of Studying the Brain

       Added new research examples of Experimental Research

      Chapter 2

       Updated coverage and streamlined Cell Reproduction

       Updated coverage of Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development: Prenatal Sex Selection and retitled as Applying Developmental Science: Prenatal Sex Selection

       Updated coverage of Genes Shared by Twins

       Updated and extended coverage of Dominant–Recessive Inheritance to include additional information about sickle cell trait

       Updated and expanded coverage of Genomic Imprinting

       Updated coverage of Dominant–Recessive Disorders

       Updated and reorganized coverage of X-Linked Disorders

       Updated and expanded coverage of Chromosomal Abnormalities

       Updated coverage of Mutation

       New section: Genetic Counseling with new subsections on Reproductive Technology and Adoption

       Updated and expanded coverage of Prenatal Testing to include fetal MRI

       Updated and expanded coverage of Prenatal Treatment of Genetic Disorders to include fetoscopy

       Updated coverage of Behavioral Genetics, including Genetic Influences on Personal Characteristics, Gene–Environment Interactions, Canalization, and Gene–Environment Correlations

       Updated coverage of Epigenetic Influences on Development replaces Epigenetic Framework

       Updated Applying Developmental Science: Altering the Epigenome