Applying What We Know tables provide practical real-life applications based on theory and research findings. Berk speaks directly to students, as parents or future parents and to those pursuing different careers and areas of study, such as health care, teaching, social work, or counseling. Exceptional Integration of Culture and Diversity Multicultural and cross-cultural material is presented not only in the text's research and in many positive and diverse examples, but also through rich photos and figures, which enhance student interest and understanding.
Cultural Influences boxes deepen the attention to culture threaded throughout the text and accentuate both multicultural and cross-cultural variations in development.
Milestones tables summarize major physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social attainments of each age period. In addition to offering an overview of change, each entry is page-referenced to provide the student with a convenient tool for review.
Ask Yourself critical thinking questions have been thoroughly revised and expanded into a unique pedagogical feature. Three types of questions prompt students to think about human development in diverse ways: Connect questions help students build an image of the whole person by integrating what they have learned across age periods and domains of development.
Apply questions encourage application of knowledge to controversial issues and problems faced by children, adolescents, adults, and professionals who work with them. Reflect questions personalize the study of human development by asking students to reflect on their own development, life experiences, and values.
Four Types of Thematic Boxes Biology and Environment boxes highlight the growing attention to the complex, bidirectional relationship between biology and environment. Social Issues boxes discuss the impact of social conditions on children, adolescents, and adults, and emphasize the need for sensitive social and public policies to ensure their well-being.
They are divided into two types: Social Issues: Health boxes address values and practices relevant to physical and mental health, while Social Issues: Education boxes focus on home, school, and community influences on learning. New to This Edition Known for staying current, Development Through the Lifespan presents the most relevant research and applications in human development today.
Highlights include the following features. The gradebook helps students track progress and get immediate feedback. Automatically graded assessments flow into the gradebook, which can be viewed in MyLab Human Development or exported.
The eText allows students to highlight relevant passages and add notes. Multimedia simulations include NEW topics, with simulations designed by author Laura Berk to seamlessly complement the text. Careers in Human Development explains how studying human development is essential for a wide range of career paths. This tool features more than 25 career overviews, which contain interviews with actual practitioners, educational requirements, typical day-to-day activities, and links to websites for additional information.
MyVirtualLife is a pair of interactive web-based simulations. The first allows students to rear a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.
In the second, students make personal decisions and see the impact of those decisions on their simulated future selves. Revel is ideal for courses where student engagement and mobile access are important. The Revel version includes the following key features. Located throughout Revel, quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on. The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices, automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications, to stay on top of all due dates. New to This Edition. Known for staying current , Development Through the Lifespan presents the most relevant research and applications in human development today.
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It consists of seven philosophical ingredients that I regard as essential for students to emerge from a course with a thorough understanding of lifespan development. Each theme is woven into every chapter: 1. An understanding of the diverse array of theories in the field and the strengths and shortcomings of each. The first chapter begins by emphasizing that only knowledge of multiple theories can do justice to the richness of human development.
As I take up each age period and domain of development, I present a variety of theoretical perspectives, indicate how each highlights previously overlooked aspects of development, and discuss research that evaluates it.
Consideration of contrasting theories also serves as the context for an evenhanded analysis of many controversial issues. A grasp of the lifespan perspective as an integrative approach to development. I introduce the lifespan perspective and illustrate its assumptions throughout the text, in an effort to help students construct an overall vision of development from conception to death. Knowledge of both the sequence of human development and the processes that underlie it.
Students are provided with discussion of the organized sequence of development along with processes of change. An understanding of process— how complex combinations of biological, psychological, and environmental factors produce development—has been the focus of most recent research. Accordingly, the text reflects this emphasis. But new information about the timetable of change has also emerged.
In many ways, the very young and the old have proved to be more competent than they were believed to be in the past. In addition, many milestones of adult development, such as finishing formal education, entering a career, getting married, having children, and retiring, have become far less predictable.
Current evidence on the sequence and timing of development, along with its implications for process, is presented for all periods of the lifespan. An appreciation of the impact of context and culture on human development.
A wealth of research indicates that people live in rich physical and social contexts that affect all domains of development. Throughout the book, students travel to distant parts of the world as I review a growing body of cross-cultural evidence. The text narrative also discusses many findings on socioeconomically and ethnically diverse people within the United States.
Furthermore, the impact of historical time period and cohort membership receives continuous attention. In this vein, gender issues—the distinctive but continually evolving experiences, roles, and life paths of males and females—are granted substantial emphasis.
Besides highlighting the effects of immediate settings, such as family, neighborhood, and school, I make a concerted effort to underscore the influence of larger social structures— societal values, laws, and government policies and programs— on lifelong well-being.
An understanding of the joint contributions of biology and environment to development. Numerous examples of how biological dispositions can be maintained as well as transformed by social contexts are presented throughout the book. A sense of the interdependency of all domains of development— physical, cognitive, emotional, and social. Every chapter emphasizes an integrated approach to human development. I show how physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development are interwoven.
Within the text narrative, and in the Ask Yourself questions at the end of major sections, students are referred to other sections of the book to deepen their grasp of relationships among various aspects of change.
An appreciation of the interrelatedness of theory, research, and applications.
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