Preface ix Richard M. Lerner Tufts University Contributors xviii 1 Life-Span Development: Concepts and Issues 1 Willis F. Overton Temple University 2 Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development Over the Life Span: Concepts and Issues 30 John R. Nesselroade The University of Virginia Peter C. M. Molenaar The Pennsylvania State University 3 What Life-Span Data Do We Really Need? 55 John J. McArdle University of Southern California 4 Brain Development: An Overview 89 Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota Wendy S. C.
Lee University of Minnesota 5 Biology, Evolution, and Psychological Development 115 Gary Greenberg Wichita State University Ty Partridge Wayne State University 6 The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting over the Life Span 149 Michael F. Mascalo Merrimack College Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University 7 Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development 195 Ellen Bialystok York University Fergus I. M. Craik Rotman Research Institute 8 Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective 226 Clancy Blair New York University 9 Memory Development across the Life Span 259 Peter A. Ornstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Leah L. Light Pitzer College 10 The Development of Mental Processing 306 Andreas Demetriou University of Cyprus Antigoni Mouyi Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus George Spanoudis University of Cyprus 11 The Development of Representation and Concepts 346 Ulrich Müller University of Victoria Timothy P. Racine Simon Fraser University 12 Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span 391 Robert B.
Ricco California State University at San Bernardino 13 Development of Executive Function across the Life Span 431 Sophie Jacques Dalhousie University Stuart Marcovitch University of North Carolina at Greensboro 14 Language Development 467 Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University 15 Self-Regulation: Integration of Cognition and Emotion 509 Megan M. McClelland Oregon State University Claire Cameron Ponitz University of Virginia Emily E. Messersmith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Shauna Tominey Oregon State University 16 The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance 554 Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley 17 The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective 584 Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University Charlie Lewis Lancaster University 18 The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development 628 Michael Lewis UMDNJ--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 19 The Development of Knowing 671 Michael J. Chandler The University of British Columbia Susan A. J. Birch The University of British Columbia 20 Spatial Development 720 Marina Vasilyeva Boston College Stella F.
Lourenco Emory University 21 Gesturing across the Life Span 754 Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago Jana M. Iverson University of Pittsburgh 22 Developmental Psychopathology--Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective 792 Sebastiano Santostefano Private Practice, Boston, MA 23 The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life 837 Tzur M. Karelitz Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA Linda Jarvin Tufts University Robert J. Sternberg Tufts University 24 Thriving across the Life Span 882 Matthew J. Bundick Stanford University David S. Yeager Stanford University Pamela Ebstyne King Fuller Theological Seminary William Damon Stanford University Author Index 927 Subject Index 971.