Lecture Life-span development (13th edition): Chapter 2 - Santrock
Lecture Life-span development (13th edition): Chapter 2 - Santrock
Chapter 2 - Biological beginnings. The previous chapter introduced the fi eld of life-span development, including discussion of three key developmental processes: biological, cognitive, and socioemotional. In this chapter, we lay the foundation of the biological aspects of development. Biological processes, guided by genes, infl uence an individual’s development in every period of the human life span.