Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence
By David Shaffer, Katherine Kipp
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This popular, topically organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents students with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide students with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks "to" students rather than "at" them. The authors also focus on applications that show students how theories and research apply to real-life settings. As a result, students gain an understanding of developmental principles that will help them in their roles as parents, teachers, nurses, day-care workers, pediatricians, psychologists, or in any other capacity by which they may one day influence the lives of developing persons.
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This popular, topically organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents students with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide students with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks "to" students rather than "at" them. The authors also focus on applications that show students how theories and research apply to real-life settings. As a result, students gain an understanding of developmental principles that will help them in their roles as parents, teachers, nurses, day-care workers, pediatricians, psychologists, or in any other capacity by which they may one day influence the lives of developing persons.
Available with InfoTrac® Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.
Highly regarded for its mastery of the major research and theories in child development, the book is updated throughout with references to the latest studies and reviews.
Icons in the Applying Development Themes sections (at the end of Chapter 3 and in every chapter thereafter) help to visually emphasize the book's four core themes (nature/nurture, active/passive, continuity/discontinuity, and the holistic nature of development). These informative sections help to "wrap up" the chapter's messages by showing students how the themes are reflected in the developmental topics just covered.
Students can gauge their understanding with the help of Concept Checks after each section as well as chapter-ending Practice Quizzes with ten multiple-choice questions that cover main chapter concepts.
The text highlights developmental sequences and processes that children and adolescents experience within each developmental domain. This approach follows the systematic transformations that take place through childhood and adolescence, conveying the holistic character of human development.
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Part I. Introduction to Developmental Psychology
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