Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Section 1: The life-span perspective: Introduction -- Section 2: Biological processes, physical development, and health: Biological beginnings -- Physical development and biological aging -- Health -- Motor, sensory, and perceptual development -- Section 3: Cognitive processes and development: Cognitive processes and developmental approaches -- Information processing -- Intelligence -- Language development -- Section 4: Socioemotional processes and development: Emotional development and attachment -- The self, identify, and personality -- Gender and sexuality -- Moral development, values, and religion -- Section 5: Social contexts of development: Families, lifestyles, and parenting -- Peers and the sociocultural world -- Schools, achievement, and work -- Section 6: Endings: Death, dying, and grieving.