Development

Each chapter includes Mad Minutes, Journal, and Flashcards. 1. STUDYING HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.. Learning Launch: Studying Human Growth and Development. The Building Blocks of Human Growth and Development. Drag and Drop Quiz: The Building Blocks of Human Growth and Development. 2. INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT. Learning Launch: Interactive Development. No Man Is an Island. Drag and Drop Quiz: The Bronfenbrenner Model. 3. NATURE OR NATURE?: AN AGE-OLD DEBATE. Learning Launch: An Age-Old Question. Nature or Nurture or Both? Genotype and Phenotype. Drag and Drop Activity: Genetic Family Tree. Multiple Choice Quiz. 4. BeEGINNINGS. Learning Launch: Beginnings. The Pregnant Body. The Biological Foundation of Human Growth and Development. The Female Reproductive Organs. The Male Reproductive Organs. The Dynamic Process of Human Conception. The Embryonic Period: A Critical Period of Human Development. Fetal Development: A Time of Maturation and Growth. Safe Passage. Prenatal Brain Development. Multiple Choice Quiz. Drag and Drop Quiz: The Female and Male Reproductive System. Building Blocks Activity. 5. INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD. Learning Launch: The Biological Realm of Human Development. The Journey Begins. Reflexive Creatures. Its a Whole New World. Dendritic Branching: How the Human Brain is Wired. Learning Launch: The Cognitive Realm. Active Intelligence. Learning Launch: The Psychosocial Realm. Is This World a Place I Can Trust? Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 6. EARLY CHILDHOOD: THE PLAY YEARS. Learning Launch: The Play Years: The Age of Make Believe. Learning Launch: The Play Years: Psychosocial Development. The Development of Self. Development of the Internal and External Sexual Organs. The Parent-Child Relationship. Learning Launch: The Play Years: Cognitive Development. Multiple Choice Quiz. Drag and Drop Activity: Male and Female Internal and External Sexual Organs. Building Blocks Activity. 7. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: THE SCHOOL YEARS. Learning Launch: Middle Childhood: The School Years. The Educational Environment. You Gotta Have Friends! Media Violence and the Effects on Children. Learning Launch: Child Maltreatment. Concrete Operational Thought. Bronferbrenners Model and Middle Childhood. Activity: Draw a Picture of Divorce. Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 8. ADOLESCENCE. Learning Launch: Adolescence: The Biological Realm. Hormonal Influences on the Body at Puberty. Learning Launch: Adolescence: the Psychosocial Realm. Adolescence: Peers and Dating. Sexual Behavior. Learning Launch: Adolescence: The Cognitive Realm. Activity: Troubled Adolescents. Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 9. EARLY ADULTHOOD. Learning Launch: Transition to Early Adulthood. The Family Life Cycle. Learning Launch: Early Adulthood: The Biological Realm. Learning Launch: Early Adulthood: The Psychosocial Realm. First Comes Love. Sex and the City, and the Country, and Everywhere Else! Then Comes Marriage (Or Not). Then Comes Responsibility. Then Comes the Baby Carriage. Violence in Relationships. Learning Launch: Early Adulthood: Cognitive Realm. Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 10. MIDDLE ADULTHOOD. Learning Launch: Middle Adulthood: The Biological Realm. Male and Female Climacteric. Menopause. After 40, Its Patch, Patch, Patch! Breast Cancer and the Self. Learning Launch: Middle Adulthood: The Cognitive Realm. Learning Launch: Middle Adulthood: The Psychosocial Realm. First Comes Love (Again). Love Hurts. Two Good Friends. Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 11. LATE ADULTHOOD. Learning Launch: Late Adulthood: The Biological Realm. What Happens to the Body as it Ages. Learning Launch: Late Adulthood: The Cognitive Realm. Alzheimers Disease and Dementia. Learning Launch: Late Adulthood: The Psychosocial Realm. Leroy and Geneva. If I Had It My Way. Miss Mable. Multiple Choice Quiz. Building Blocks Activity. 12. DYING AND DEATH. Learning Launch: The End of Life. The Good Death. A Delineation Between Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning. Activity: Self Inventories. Closing Comments.