For courses in Human Development
Unparalleled Among Human Development Texts — In a Class by Itself
With its seamless integration of up-to-date research, strong multicultural and cross-cultural focus, and clear, engaging narrative, Development Through the Lifespan has established itself as the market’s leading text. The dramatically revised Seventh Edition presents the newest, most relevant research and applications in the field of human development today. Featuring compelling topics, rich examples, and author Laura Berk’s signature storytelling style, this new edition is the most current and engaging text available.
Available to package with Development Through the Lifespan, Seventh Edition, MyLab™ Human Development is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to further engage students and improve learning. MyLab Human Development is ideal for courses requiring robust assessments.
Development Through the Lifespan, Seventh Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive digital learning environment that is a less expensive alternative to the print textbook, enabling students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Revel’s new mobile app lets students access and interact with their text anywhere, anytime, on any device, giving students the flexibility of toggling between their phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day.
Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
0134488970 / 9780134488974 Development Through the Lifespan plus MyLab Human Development with eText – Access Card Package, 7/e
Package consists of:
0134419693 / 9780134419695 Development Through the Lifespan, 7/e
0205909744 / 9780205909742 MyLab Human Development with eText Access Card
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PART I – THEORY AND RESEARCH IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1. History, Theory, and Research Strategies
PART II – FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT GENETIC FOUNDATIONS
2. Genetic Reproductive Choices and Environmental Foundations
3. Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn Baby
PART III – INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
4. Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
5. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
6. Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
PART IV – EARLY CHILDHOOD: TWO TO SIX YEARS
7. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
8. Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
PART V – MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: SIX TO ELEVEN YEARS
9. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
10. Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
PART VI – ADOLESCENCE: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
11. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
12. Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
PART VII – EARLY ADULTHOOD
13. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
14. Emotional and Social Development in Early Adulthood
PART VIII – MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
15. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
16. Emotional and Social Development in Middle Adulthood
PART IX – LATE ADULTHOOD
17. Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
18. Emotional and Social Development in Late Adulthood
PART X – THE END OF LIFE
19. Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Thoroughly Engaging Writing Style
Berk makes the study of human development both involving and pleasurable for students. Development Through the Lifespan is written in an engaging, personal style — one that is highly accessible — and contains real-life human-interest stories. The author encourages students to relate what they read to their own lives. Stories and vignettes of real individuals, a Berk signature feature, open each chapter and continue throughout the text to illustrate developmental principles and teach through engaging narrative. The text “teaches while it tells a story.”
Unparalleled Breadth and Depth of Research
Meticulously researched material, including over 2,300 new reference citations, as well as the latest research and findings, reflects major changes and discoveries in the field, and is conveyed to the student in a clear, story-like fashion that humanizes the complex developmental process.
Appealing and Meaningful Applications
Integrated throughout the text, these applications show students how their learning relates to real-world situations. Applications are relevant to students pursuing a variety of fields, including psychology, education, nursing and other health professions, sociology, anthropology, family studies, and social services. The Look and Listen feature promotes active learning, asking students to observe what real individuals say and do, speak with or observe parents, teachers, or other professionals, and inquire into community programs and practices that influence children, adolescents, and adults. Applying What We Know tables provide practical real-life applications based on theory and research findings. Berk speaks directly to students, as parents or future parents and to those pursuing different careers and areas of study, such as health care, teaching, social work, or counseling.
Exceptional Integration of Culture and Diversity
Multicultural and cross-cultural material is presented not only in the text's research and in many positive and diverse examples, but also through rich photos and figures, which enhance student interest and understanding. Cultural Influences boxes deepen the attention to culture threaded throughout the text and accentuate both multicultural and cross-cultural variations in development.
Other Outstanding Pedagogical Features
These features support students’ mastery of the subject matter, inspire critical thinking, and help students engage with information on child development, applying it to the real word. Milestones tables summarize major physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social attainments of each age period. In addition to offering an overview of change, each entry is page-referenced to provide the student with a convenient tool for review. Ask Yourself critical thinking questions have been thoroughly revised and expanded into a unique pedagogical feature. Three types of questions prompt students to think about human development in diverse ways: Connect questions help students build an image of the whole person by integrating what they have learned across age periods and domains of development. Apply questions encourage application of knowledge to controversial issues and problems faced by children, adolescents, adults, and professionals who work with them. Reflect questions personalize the study of human development by asking students to reflect on their own development, life experiences, and values.
Four Types of Thematic Boxes
Biology and Environment boxes highlight the growing attention to the complex, bidirectional relationship between biology and environment. Cultural Influences boxes deepen the attention to culture threaded throughout the text and accentuate both multicultural and cross-cultural variations in development. Social Issues boxes discuss the impact of social conditions on children, adolescents, and adults, and emphasize the need for sensitive social and public policies to ensure their well-being. They are divided into two types: Social Issues: Health boxes address values and practices relevant to physical and mental health, while Social Issues: Education boxes focus on home, school, and community influences on learning.
New to This Edition
Known for staying current, Development Through the Lifespan presents the most relevant research and applications in human development today. Many new topics have been introduced or enhanced throughout the Seventh Edition, including:
Developmental systems approach, as illustrated by the lifespan perspective
Developmental neuroscience, with special attention to developmental social neuroscience
Contributions of schooling to development and life chances, with special attention to SES differences
Epigenesis, including the role of methylation along with new examples of environmental influences on gene expression
Development during the prenatal period, including brain growth, sensory capacities, and embryonic and fetal behavior
Health care and other policies for parents and newborn babies, including cross-national infant mortality rates and the importance of generous parental leave
Advances in brain development, with special attention to the prefrontal cortex
How environmental factors, including caregiving practices and the baby’s physical surroundings, contribute to motor development
Implications of infants’ capacity to analyze the speech stream for later language progress
Importance of sustained high-quality child care from infancy through the preschool years for cognitive, language, literacy, and math progress at kindergarten entry
Temperamental differences in susceptibility to the effects of good and poor parenting, highlighting evidence on the short 5-HTTLPR gene
Contributions of fathers’ involvement in caregiving to attachment security and to children’s cognitive, emotional, and social competence
Introduction to the concept of executive function, including inhibition, working memory, flexible shifting of attention, and planning, and related research spanning all age periods
Educational media, including effects on cognitive development and academic learning
Contributions of sociodramatic and rough-and-tumble play to young children’s emotional and social development
Moral understanding in early childhood, including contributions of language, theory of mind, peer and sibling experiences, and parenting
Family stressors and childhood obesity
Diverse cognitive benefits of bilingualism
Racial and ethnic prejudice in school-age children, including effective ways to reduce prejudice
Resilience in middle childhood, including contributions of social and emotional learning interventions
Adolescent brain development, with implications for adolescent risk-taking and susceptibility to peer influence
Effects of media multitasking on learning, with new evidence on consequences for executive function
Parent–adolescent relationships and development of autonomy, including cultural variations
Teenagers’ online communication with friends, including consequences for friendship quality and social adjustment
Sexual attitudes and behavior among young adults, including Internet dating, gender differences in number of lifetime partners, sex without relationship commitment on U.S. college campuses, same-sex relationships, and implications of sexual activity for life satisfaction
Importance of academic engagement in college for successful transition to the labor market
Forms of love, with special attention to compassionate love and contributions of commitment to lasting intimate relationships
Gender variations in career development, including factors contributing to the widespread gender pay gap and to differences in career advancement
Regular physical exercise and reduced mortality risk throughout adulthood, along with approaches to increasing physical activity
Practical problem solving and expertise in middle adulthood
Relationship of midlife generativity to psychological adjustment, including civic political, and religious engagement
Cultural variations in middle-aged children caring for aging parents
Impact of negative stereotypes of aging on older adults’ physical, cognitive, and emotional functioning, with special attention to stereotype threat
Risk and protective factors for Alzheimer’s disease, including the role of epigenetic processes
The positivity effect — older adults’ bias toward emotionally positive information — plus expanded discussion of late-life expertise in emotional self-regulation
Experience Corps, illustrating the benefits of sustained and intensive volunteer service for older adults’ physical and mental health
Children’s understanding of death, with special attention to cultural variations in parents’ candidness in discussing death with children
Diverse benefits of hospice care for dying patients and family members
Available to package with Development Through the Lifespan, Seventh Edition, MyLab™ Human Development is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve learning. Authored by Laura Berk, MyLab Human Development for Development Through the Lifespan is ideal for courses requiring robust assessments. Highlights include the following features.
A personalized study plan analyzes students’ study needs into three levels: Remember, Understand, and Apply.
A variety of assessments enable continuous evaluation of students’ learning.
The gradebook helps students track progress and get immediate feedback. Automatically graded assessments flow into the gradebook, which can be viewed in MyLab Human Development or exported.
The eText allows students to highlight relevant passages and add notes. Access the eText through a laptop, iPad®, or tablet — or download the free app to use on tablets.
Extensive video footage includes NEW segments produced by author Laura Berk.
Multimedia simulations include NEW topics, with simulations designed by author Laura Berk to seamlessly complement the text.
Careers in Human Development explains how studying human development is essential for a wide range of career paths. This tool features more than 25 career overviews, which contain interviews with actual practitioners, educational requirements, typical day-to-day activities, and links to websites for additional information.
MyVirtualLife is a pair of interactive web-based simulations. The first allows students to rear a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time. In the second, students make personal decisions and see the impact of those decisions on their simulated future selves.
Learn more.
Development Through the Lifespan, Seventh Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive digital learning environment that is a less expensive alternative to the print textbook, enabling students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Revel is ideal for courses where student engagement and mobile access are important. The Revel version includes the following key features.
Integrated within the author’s narrative, interactives and videos provide opportunities for students to deeply engage with course content while reading.
Located throughout Revel, quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on.
The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices, automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications, to stay on top of all due dates.
Learn more.
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Known for staying current, Development Through the Lifespan presents the most relevant research and applications in human development today. Many new topics have been introduced or enhanced throughout the Seventh Edition, including:
Developmental systems approach, as illustrated by the lifespan perspective
Developmental neuroscience, with special attention to developmental social neuroscience
Contributions of schooling to development and life chances, with special attention to SES differences
Epigenesis, including the role of methylation along with new examples of environmental influences on gene expression
Development during the prenatal period, including brain growth, sensory capacities, and embryonic and fetal behavior
Health care and other policies for parents and newborn babies, including cross-national infant mortality rates and the importance of generous parental leave
Advances in brain development, with special attention to the prefrontal cortex
How environmental factors, including caregiving practices and the baby’s physical surroundings, contribute to motor development
Implications of infants’ capacity to analyze the speech stream for later language progress
Importance of sustained high-quality child care from infancy through the preschool years for cognitive, language, literacy, and math progress at kindergarten entry
Temperamental differences in susceptibility to the effects of good and poor parenting, highlighting evidence on the short 5-HTTLPR gene
Contributions of fathers’ involvement in caregiving to attachment security and to children’s cognitive, emotional, and social competence
Introduction to the concept of executive function, including inhibition, working memory, flexible shifting of attention, and planning, and related research spanning all age periods
Educational media, including effects on cognitive development and academic learning
Contributions of sociodramatic and rough-and-tumble play to young children’s emotional and social development
Moral understanding in early childhood, including contributions of language, theory of mind, peer and sibling experiences, and parenting
Family stressors and childhood obesity
Diverse cognitive benefits of bilingualism
Racial and ethnic prejudice in school-age children, including effective ways to reduce prejudice
Resilience in middle childhood, including contributions of social and emotional learning interventions
Adolescent brain development, with implications for adolescent risk-taking and susceptibility to peer influence
Effects of media multitasking on learning, with new evidence on consequences for executive function
Parent–adolescent relationships and development of autonomy, including cultural variations
Teenagers’ online communication with friends, including consequences for friendship quality and social adjustment
Sexual attitudes and behavior among young adults, including Internet dating, gender differences in number of lifetime partners, sex without relationship commitment on U.S. college campuses, same-sex relationships, and implications of sexual activity for life satisfaction
Importance of academic engagement in college for successful transition to the labor market
Forms of love, with special attention to compassionate love and contributions of commitment to lasting intimate relationships
Gender variations in career development, including factors contributing to the widespread gender pay gap and to differences in career advancement
Regular physical exercise and reduced mortality risk throughout adulthood, along with approaches to increasing physical activity
Practical problem solving and expertise in middle adulthood
Relationship of midlife generativity to psychological adjustment, including civic political, and religious engagement
Cultural variations in middle-aged children caring for aging parents
Impact of negative stereotypes of aging on older adults’ physical, cognitive, and emotional functioning, with special attention to stereotype threat
Risk and protective factors for Alzheimer’s disease, including the role of epigenetic processes
The positivity effect — older adults’ bias toward emotionally positive information — plus expanded discussion of late-life expertise in emotional self-regulation
Experience Corps, illustrating the benefits of sustained and intensive volunteer service for older adults’ physical and mental health
Children’s understanding of death, with special attention to cultural variations in parents’ candidness in discussing death with children
Diverse benefits of hospice care for dying patients and family members
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780134419695
Publisert
2017-02-17
Utgave
7. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson
Vekt
1954 gr
Høyde
281 mm
Bredde
234 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
864
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