Child Development: International Edition
Autor Robert S. Feldman, PH.D.en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780205737352
ISBN-10: 0205737358
Pagini: 552
Dimensiuni: 229 x 273 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Ediția:5Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0205737358
Pagini: 552
Dimensiuni: 229 x 273 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Ediția:5Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Cuprins
1: An Introduction to Child Development
2: Theoretical Perspectives and Research
3: The Start of Life: Genetics and Prenatal Development
4: Birth and the Newborn Infant
5: Physical Development in Infancy
6: Cognitive Development in Infancy
7: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
8: Physical Development in the Preschool Years
9: Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
10: Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years
11: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
13: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
14: Physical Development in Adolescence
15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
16: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
2: Theoretical Perspectives and Research
3: The Start of Life: Genetics and Prenatal Development
4: Birth and the Newborn Infant
5: Physical Development in Infancy
6: Cognitive Development in Infancy
7: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
8: Physical Development in the Preschool Years
9: Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
10: Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years
11: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
13: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
14: Physical Development in Adolescence
15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
16: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
Notă biografică
Robert S. Feldman is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than two decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, Virginia Commonwealth University, in addition to the University of Massachusetts.
Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He also is actively involved in promoting the field of psychology. He is on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, and also is on the Board of the Foundationfor the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Feldman is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children, Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of Development Across the Life Span, Understanding Psychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.
Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic, if not-exactly-expert, pianist, and he enjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.
Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He also is actively involved in promoting the field of psychology. He is on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, and also is on the Board of the Foundationfor the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Feldman is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children, Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of Development Across the Life Span, Understanding Psychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.
Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic, if not-exactly-expert, pianist, and he enjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.
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MyDevelopmentLab also provides students the opportunity to raise a virtual child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of specific parenting decisions over time.
Students benefit from this easy-to-use site with or without their instructor’s involvement. Students can test themselves on key content, track their progress, and utilize individually tailored study plan activities, including an e-book, simulations, newsfeeds, videos, and application exercises.
MyDevelopmentLab also provides students the opportunity to raise a virtual child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of specific parenting decisions over time.
Caracteristici
How do you connect the material covered in the course to students from varying majors?
Child Development 5e has an increased emphasis on helping students to understand the link between various careers and findings from the field of child development.
Many of the student-focused features of Child Development 5e are designed to create a connection between the material in the text and the lives of students. Capitalizing on students’ inherent interest in the subject, Child Development 5e drives students to relate to what they are learning by examining their own experiences.
Developmental Diversity sections highlight issues relevant to today's multicultural society. This feature helps to remind students of the concepts within child development that unite and diversify our global community.
How do you ensure that your students understand the content and retain the important information?
Child Development 5e has an increased emphasis on helping students to understand the link between various careers and findings from the field of child development.
- Applying From a Child Development Professional’s Perspective–Newly-highlighted as an attractive margin feature, presents a series of questions designed to help students think about the chapter's content and apply it to their daily experience. These sections include critical thinking questions that challenge students to think from the perspective of various professionals who use developmental research in their careers, such as educators, health providers, social workers, etc.
- Careers in Child Development--interviews with individuals who work in a career that relies on the information from the field of child development. Connects students to the wide range of careers that rely on developmental research and information.
Many of the student-focused features of Child Development 5e are designed to create a connection between the material in the text and the lives of students. Capitalizing on students’ inherent interest in the subject, Child Development 5e drives students to relate to what they are learning by examining their own experiences.
- From Research to Practice boxes--appear in each chapter to focus discussion on how developmental research can be used in everyday life. From child-rearing issues to applying developmental research to public policy, this boxed feature helps students think about developmental research outside of the classroom.
- Becoming an Informed Consumer of Development--expand on the chapter coverage by showing relevance and application to everyday situations, such as finding a child-care provider.
- Observation Videos in Child Development CD-ROM--bring to life more than 30 key concepts discussed within the narrative of the text. Each video contains an introduction to the concept being illustrated as well as commentary describing what is taking place at crucial points in the video. Questions follow each video for students to use as review, quizzing, or for further discussion.
Developmental Diversity sections highlight issues relevant to today's multicultural society. This feature helps to remind students of the concepts within child development that unite and diversify our global community.
How do you ensure that your students understand the content and retain the important information?
- MyDevelopmentLab REVIEW at the end of each section within the chapters provides a sampling of questions on the important points just covered, and invites the student to go to the MyDevelopmentLab online learning system for additional review questions and a wealth of other student resources.
- Case Studies -- at the end of every chapter, a case study provides thought provoking scenarios related to the chapter issues, followed by questions to hone students’ critical thinking skills.
- End-of-Part “Putting It All Together” — The content of all the chapters in each textbook Part is recapped and addressed from the domains of physical, cognitive, and social and personality development. In addition, questions address developmental issues from the perspective of people such a parents, professional caregivers, social workers, and educators.
- MyVirtualChild — students are reminded, at the end of each chapter, to access this interactive simulation that allows them to raise a child from birth to 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.
Caracteristici noi
Child Development, Fifth Edition features a variety of student-focused applications that make the study of development interesting and engaging with an emphasis on practical, take-home information for students of varying majors and backgrounds. Chronologically arranged.
A considerable number of topics and areas have been added or expanded in the 5th edition of Child Development:
Chapter 1: cohort effects, terrorism, Rousseau, Locke, noble savage, tabula rasa, physical abuse as risk factors for violence, psychological abuse and childhood violence
Chapter 2: replication, meta-analysis
Chapter 3: intergenerational effects of smoking, psychological consequences of abortion, prenatal vitamins and folic acid, prenatal testing
Chapter 4: U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act, American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines on hospital discharge following birth, Bradley method, hypnobirthing,
side effects of birthing drugs, postpartum depression, circumcision
Chapter 5: gender/ethnic differences in height and weight, shaken baby syndrome, obesity in infants, new data on underweight children, new data on child poverty rates
Chapter 6: Baby Einstein, value of educational media, neurodevelopment aspects of memory
Chapter 7: mirror neurons, reactive attachment disorder, findings on low-quality group child care
Chapter 8: children’s participation in medical decision-making, brain growth and nutrition, brain growth and cognitive and motor skills, malnutrition and brain development, agility, spanking and parental reactions to stress
Chapter 9: Montessori school effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis of pre-kindergarten, educational television outcomes, television viewing and obesity
Chapter 10: play and cognitive and brain development, racial and ethnic identity development
Chapter 11: psychological disorders and medication, increase in diagnoses of psychological disorders in children, self-care children and obesity, risks of competitive sport participation
Chapter 12: familial intellectual deficit, intellectual deficit, No Child Left Behind, mnemonics, three memory stores, logical thinking, bilingualism and immersion programs, brain scans and bilingualism
Chapter 13: sibling rivalry, sibling influences, bullying, poverty and family life, Erikson,
learned helplessness, how increasing cognitive skills leads to differentiation in self-concept
Chapter 14: Obesity and menarche, Leptin, prefrontal cortex and brain development, stress and bullying, obesity and fast foods, obesity, inactivity, and video games,
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
Chapter 15: No Child Left Behind, home schooling, middle school transition, middle school effectiveness, work pros and cons, pseudomaturity, propositional thought and validity
Chapter 16: extended timetable for autonomy, emergence of crowds and cliques and cognition, online gambling, virginity pledges and pregnancy reduction, cross-cultural teenage pregnancy rates, sex education programs
A considerable number of topics and areas have been added or expanded in the 5th edition of Child Development:
Chapter 1: cohort effects, terrorism, Rousseau, Locke, noble savage, tabula rasa, physical abuse as risk factors for violence, psychological abuse and childhood violence
Chapter 2: replication, meta-analysis
Chapter 3: intergenerational effects of smoking, psychological consequences of abortion, prenatal vitamins and folic acid, prenatal testing
Chapter 4: U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act, American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines on hospital discharge following birth, Bradley method, hypnobirthing,
side effects of birthing drugs, postpartum depression, circumcision
Chapter 5: gender/ethnic differences in height and weight, shaken baby syndrome, obesity in infants, new data on underweight children, new data on child poverty rates
Chapter 6: Baby Einstein, value of educational media, neurodevelopment aspects of memory
Chapter 7: mirror neurons, reactive attachment disorder, findings on low-quality group child care
Chapter 8: children’s participation in medical decision-making, brain growth and nutrition, brain growth and cognitive and motor skills, malnutrition and brain development, agility, spanking and parental reactions to stress
Chapter 9: Montessori school effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis of pre-kindergarten, educational television outcomes, television viewing and obesity
Chapter 10: play and cognitive and brain development, racial and ethnic identity development
Chapter 11: psychological disorders and medication, increase in diagnoses of psychological disorders in children, self-care children and obesity, risks of competitive sport participation
Chapter 12: familial intellectual deficit, intellectual deficit, No Child Left Behind, mnemonics, three memory stores, logical thinking, bilingualism and immersion programs, brain scans and bilingualism
Chapter 13: sibling rivalry, sibling influences, bullying, poverty and family life, Erikson,
learned helplessness, how increasing cognitive skills leads to differentiation in self-concept
Chapter 14: Obesity and menarche, Leptin, prefrontal cortex and brain development, stress and bullying, obesity and fast foods, obesity, inactivity, and video games,
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
Chapter 15: No Child Left Behind, home schooling, middle school transition, middle school effectiveness, work pros and cons, pseudomaturity, propositional thought and validity
Chapter 16: extended timetable for autonomy, emergence of crowds and cliques and cognition, online gambling, virginity pledges and pregnancy reduction, cross-cultural teenage pregnancy rates, sex education programs