The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods

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