Discovering the Life Span (09 - Old Edition)

Modular, manageable, meaningful—help your students discover the life span!

Based on extensive market research, and informed by author Robert Feldman’s own teaching experience, Discovering the Life Span was created to meet key teaching needs. Many instructors would like to cover the entire life span in a single term. They would like their students to see the big picture and understand how the domains of development work together. And, perhaps most importantly, they would like their students to truly connect to the material. This remarkable first edition does all three of these things.Here’s how:

• Structured around a modular format, each stage of life and each domain are treated equally throughout the text. This balanced format offers instructors teaching flexibility while helping students see the connections between the physical, cognitive, and social/personality domains.
• With 9 chapters, 3 modules per chapter, and only 493 pages, Discovering the Life Span is more manageable for instructors and students. This format allows instructors to cover all areas of the life span without having to sacrifice content during their one-term course. Students get a better sense of the entire process of development.
• Interactive online resources like MyDevelopmentLab with MyVirtualChild, strong applications, and innovative pedagogy integrated throughout the text produce a meaningful learning experience for students. These tools best prepare students to apply the content to their personal and future professional lives.

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MyDevelpmentLab with MyVirtualChild is available at www.mydevelopmentlab.com.

MyDevelopmentLab with MyVirtualChild is a learning and assessment tool that allows instructors to assess student performance and adapt course content without investing a lot of additional time or resources. 

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.

Modular, manageable, meaningful—help your students discover the life span!

Based on extensive market research, and informed by author Robert Feldman’s own teaching experience, Discovering the Life Span was created to meet key teaching needs. Many instructors would like to cover the entire life span in a single term. They would like their students to see the big picture and understand how the domains of development work together. And, perhaps most importantly, they would like their students to truly connect to the material. This remarkable first edition does all three of these things.

    Professor 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 initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts

    A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He 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 (Springer-Verlag), Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (Cambridge University Press). He is also author of Child Development, Understanding Psychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life.  His books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.  His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life and the use of nonverbal behavior in impression management, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.     Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range. #LINK<>#

Chapter 1.  BEGINNINGS

Module 1-1:  Beginnings:  An Introduction to Development Across the Life Span

Module 1-2:  The Start of Life: Genetics and Prenatal Development

Module 1-3:  Birth and the Newborn Infant

Chapter 2.  INFANCY: FORMING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE

Module 2-1:  Physical Development

Module 2-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 2-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 3.  THE PRESCHOOL YEARS

Module 3-1:  Physical Development

Module 3-2:  Cognitive Development 

Module 3-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 4.  MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

Module 4-1:  Physical Development

Module 4-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 4-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 5.  ADOLESCENCE

Module 5-1:  Physical Development

Module 5-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 5-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 6:  EARLY ADULTHOOD

Module 6-1:  Physical Development

Module 6-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 6-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 7.  MIDDLE ADULTHOOD

Module 7-1:  Physical Development

Module 7-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 7-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 8.  LATE ADULTHOOD

Module 8-1:  Physical Development

Module 8-2:  Cognitive Development

Module 8-3:  Social and Personality Development

Chapter 9.  ENDINGS

Module 9-1:  Dying and Death Across the Lifespan

Module 9-2:  Confronting DeathModule 9-3:  Grief and Bereavement