Frank Keil’s Developmental Psychology represents his vision of how psychology should be taught and is based on nearly four decades of teaching a lecture course in developmental psychology and conducting developmental research. With a cohesive narrative, clear art programme and carefully crafted pedagogy, the book guides students through material that is as rich as it is intriguing. Keil’s narrative reflects his passion for engaging students’ intellectual curiosity with an analytical approach that explores the big questions, links theory with evidence and treats developmental psychology as a science. Developmental Psychology invites readers to celebrate the beauty and to understand the depth of psychological development.
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Clear, compelling and authoritative.
HELPS STUDENTS THINK LIKE PSYCHOLOGISTS ABOUT DEVELOPMENT Frank Keil drew on his more than 35 years of teaching experience to create a strong, highly cohesive narrative that shows students how development can be understood through the scientific process. Throughout the book, Keil returns to several important themes that orient and motivate the science of developmental psychology. Examples include the importance of feedback loops as well as development as a dynamic and active process on the child’s part. All of the book’s major themes are outlined in the preface. And chapter opening videos from the author himself serve as compelling chapter introductions. ADDRESSES THE BIG QUESTIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Keil links theory with evidence and teaches undergraduates to understand how the developmental process continually feeds on interacting genetic and environmental inputs. Developmental Psychology explores the discipline’s most exciting, cutting-edge work, such as the acquisition of language, morality, biological thought, memory and how infants come to understand the world. A ROBUST VIDEO PROGRAMME ILLUSTRATES THE CONCEPTS IN THE BOOK The media package for the book includes a video programme that shows students research in action. Classroom Videos (with discussion questions) feature enactments of classic experiments and demonstrate a variety of characteristics from varying developmental stages, showing developmental psychology as science in action. Videos include clips from laboratory experiments, discussions with researchers and relevant material from popular sources. Videos are available in the coursepack and can be downloaded from the Interactive Instructor’s Guide. GIVES STUDENTS THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND CORE CONCEPTS AND THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS The book has been designed to keep students engaged as they read, and to ensure that they are absorbing the material. Checkup questions appear in each chapter at the end of each major discussion, prompting students to assess their own comprehension of the material before they move on. End of chapter material (summaries, thought questions and key terms) offer opportunities for review. Feature boxes, including scientific method boxes, appear throughout the book. And a clear, carefully developed and full-colour art programme illustrates difficult concepts and helps students interpret research findings.
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ISBN
9780393124019
Publisert
2013-11-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Ww Norton & Co
Vekt
1634 gr
Høyde
274 mm
Bredde
221 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
744

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Biographical note

Frank C. Keil is the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology and Professor of Linguistics and chair of the Psychology Department at Yale University. Keil received his B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, an M.A. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. He was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University from 1977 to 1998 and has been at Yale since 1998. For over 35 years, he has taught an undergraduate lecture course in developmental psychology as well as advanced seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels on topics in cognitive development and cognition. Keil has published extensively on topics concerned with many areas in the development of cognition and language. He has written two books on aspects of conceptual development, and he and Robert Wilson have edited the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, which was selected as the Outstanding Book in Psychology by the Association of American Publishers. Keil has served as president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the Boyd R. McCandless Award from the American Psychological Association (Developmental Psychology), the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, and the Ann L. Brown Award for Excellence in Developmental Research. Keil has served on the Board on Science Education for the National Academy of Sciences, the McDonnell Foundation Advisory Board on Brain and Cognition, and numerous other boards and committees for government agencies and foundations. He also served as Master of Morse College at Yale University from 2001-2012. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Keil, and his wife Kristi Lockhart, a clinical and developmental psychologist, are parents of three sons who are now in their twenties and thirties.