The Developing Person Through the Life Span
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Beschreibung
Kathleen Berger’s acclaimed survey of developmental psychology across the life span is always up to date, always inclusive of cultures from every corner of the globe, and always compelling in the way it shows students the everyday relevance of field’s theories, ideas, and discoveries.
With its new edition, the text becomes a more deeply integrated text/media resource than ever, with the book and its dedicated version of LaunchPad combining seamlessly to enhance the learning experience. But driving that experience, as always, is the clear, engaging voice of Kathleen Berger, revealing the connections between the study of development across all stages of life and the lives that students actually live.
The book can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.
- Visualizing Development features extends the book's multicultural coverage, linking together graphics, text, and photographs to tell a visual story about an important concept in life-span development
- Opposing Perspectives features ask students to look at both sides of a controversial issue thereby expanding the coverage of critical thinking
- Berger highlights cultural differences, and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development and makes culture an enlightening, unifying theme for the text
- Critical thinking and applications-based pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications - for themselves and for the world at large - of the material they are learning
- New neuroscience feature, Inside the Brain
- Updated Visualizing Development infographics
- Hundreds of new research citations
- Coverage includes new developments in late-breaking research areas, from epigenetics to end-of-life care. Special emphasis is on brain development, culture, genetics, and emotional development
- New and updated Data Connections activities
- Think Critically questions occur several times in each chapter and are intended to provoke thought, not simple responses
This textbook is for students of developmental psychology on a psychology, nursing or social work degree.
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Kathleen Berger
Themen in »The Developing Person Through the Life Span«
Developing Person Through the Life Span Developmental Psychology Human Development Kathleen Stassen Berger Psychology