You do a great job of using research-based material, provide clear statements describing complicated issues, provide useful summaries, and write in a way that enhances student interest and learning.
In fact, I would suggest that faculty using your text end up learning even more than the students who read the book. The research is absolutely current, relevant, and well-integrated throughout the text. I think students need stories to serve as frameworks for thinking about developmental concepts, and this text provides that. Laura Berk has included more diversity content in both regular text and various boxes than in any other comparable text.
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Download Preface. Thoroughly engaging writing style: Laura 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.
Meticulously researched material, including nearly 2, 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, show students how their learning relates to real-world situations. Applications are relevant to students pursuing a variety of fields, including psychology, education, health sciences, sociology, anthropology, family studies, and social services.
The new 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. Examples of NEW coverage of cross-cultural material: public policies and development in the United States and other Western nations, cultural variations in self-concept, experience of emerging adulthood, young adults living with parents, and gender roles in close relationships.
Outstanding pedagogical features support students' mastery of the subject matter:. MyDevelopmentLab helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams. It provides educators a dynamic set of tools for tracking individual and class performance. MyDevelopmentLab features:. Now, this Sixth Edition offers a wealth of exciting new features, including new pedagogy to help students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between heredity and environment, increased attention to cultural and multicultural evidence and issues, and enhanced focus on many social-policy issues.
Look and Listen active learning feature asks 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. Social Issues: Education boxes focus on home, school, and community influences on learning. Social Issues: Health boxes address values and practices relevant to physical and mental health.
MyVirtualLife, an interactive simulation that promotes critical thinking. PART I. PART V. PART X. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more. Laura E. Berk is a distinguished professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught human development to both undergraduate and graduate students for more than three decades. Louis Thurstone. What is Fluid Intelligence?
Not taught and relatively culture free. The modern general consensus concerning intelligence is what? There are a few broad dimensions of intelligence that can be found in factor analyses. One common critism of the psychometric approach to intelligence is what? Focus on a single IQ score. Who would have the highest IQ? Tom,who is years-old and who has a mental age of Has separate scores for verbal and performance abilities.
If the scores from an intelligence test are normally distributed, then you would predict that the largest number of people would receive an IQ score of what on the test? Cleopatra has an outstanding sense of her own feelings.
This ability is best associated with Gardner's what type of intelligence? The componential subtheory focuses exclusively on what components? What is not one of Sternberg's subtheories of intelligence? Referential, but componential, experiential and contextual.
The production of ideas that are original and meaningful are both defining characteristics of what? What is on the scales of Bayley Scales of Infat Development? Behavioral, mental and motor.
Children from impoverished environments may show progressively lower IQ scores over time, a phenomenon called what? Cumulative-deficit hypothesis. The correlation between adolescents' IQ scores and their grades is closest to what? As a general pattern, what tends to have the lowest IQs? Please try again. The work is protected by local and international copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning.
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