"This edition provides extensive learning connections throughout the chapters. The learning system connects the chapter opening outline, learning goals for the chapter, mini-chapter maps that open each main section of the chapter, Review Connect, and Reflect questions at the end of each main section, and the chapter summary at the end of each chapter. In this edition, real-life connections are explicitly made through the chapter opening vignette, Connecting Development to Life, the Milestones program that helps students watch life as it unfolds, and Connecting with Careers"--