This is a new edition of the popular developmental psychology textbook, completely revised with a new lead author and 30 per cent new material.Cynthia Lightfoot has completely revised the previous edition and added 30 per cent new material. It covers: neuroscience, applications, policy issues, and adolescence. It offers new coverage, with emphasis on urban and immigrant experience. Revised content reflects changes in the understanding of the growing brain. Profiles of people with development-related jobs show developmental psychology at work in the real world.Taking a chronological approach, the book uses a broad scientific framework to present development as an interaction of biological, social, and psychological processes and human culture. The sixth edition has been completely revised, with 30 per cent new material and coverage of hot topics.