Learn developmental psychology the easy way with this affordable CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS version of DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE! Written in a clear, concise language, this psychology text presents you with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. With a focus on application, you will form an understanding of developmental principles that you can apply to your own life such as the most effective way to discipline children.

Thomson Advantage Books: Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence ,7th Edition (Thomson Advantage Books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shaffer,David R.

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Publishing

This popular, topically organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents you with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide you with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks "to" you rather than "at" you. The authors also focus on application--showing how theories and research apply to real-life settings. As a result, you will gain an understanding of developmental principles that will help you in your roles as parents, teachers, nurses, day-care workers, pediatricians, psychologists, or in any other capacity by which you may one day influence the lives of developing persons.

Cengage Advantage Books: Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Sixth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT features clearly written, current coverage of social and personality development that aids students in discovering the causes, processes, and complexities that underlie developmental change. Students learn why biological and environmental factors, contextual factors such as cross-cultural, familial, neighborhood, school, and peer-group influences cause change in children. Shaffer also explores the approaches that researchers use to test their theories and answer important questions about developing children and adolescents. This book's effective coverage of field research stands out from other texts not only for its accuracy and currency, but because Shaffer consistently juxtaposes classic research with the latest breakthroughs in a way that helps students appreciate how knowledge builds on earlier findings. This edition features a much stronger emphasis on cultural influences on development.

Social and Personality Development

Cengage Learning'

Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence

Developmental Psychology: Theory, Research, and Applications

Brooks/Cole Publishing Company

Developmental psychology: Childhood and adolescence

Brooks/Cole

Life-Span Human Development

This topically organized, research-based text covers the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human development, with attention to all periods of the life span. Its topical organization makes this text a truly unique alternative to traditional, chronologically organized development texts. By combining the best of the topical and chronological approaches, the authors are able to present life-span development as a motion picture rather than as a series of individual snapshots, thus preserving the integrity of the life-span development concept. Although in the Second Edition the basic perspective remains unchanged, the authors have sharpened the focus on themes such as the importance of the fit between person and environment, and added emphasis on cultural and subcultural diversity in development. Because of the complexity of many of the issues in human development, Sigelman and Shaffer have aimed for a book that is highly readable and yet scholarly. Through careful organization, real life examples, a clear and straightforward writing style, apt use of concrete examples and analogies, and a focus on the relevance of materials to students lives, the authors have made even the most complex topics accessible to their readers.

Sigelman, Carol K.

Aging

This topically organized, research-based text covers the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human development, with attention to all periods of the life span. Its topical organization makes this text a truly unique alternative to traditional, chronologically organized development texts. .By combining the best of the topical and chronological approaches, the authors are able to present life-span development as a ''motion picture'' rather than as a series of individual ''snapshots,'' thus preserving the integrity of the life-span development concept..Although in the Second Edition the basic perspective remains unchanged, the authors have sharpened the focus on themes such as the importance of the fit between person and environment, and added emphasis on cultural and subcultural diversity in development. Because of the complexity of many of the issues in human development, Sigelman and Shaffer have aimed for a book that is highly readable and yet scholarly. Through careful organization, real life examples, a clear and straightforward writing style, apt use of concrete examples and analogies, and a focus on the relevance of materials to students' lives, the authors have made even the most complex topics accessible to their readers.

Shaffers current and comprehensive overview of social and personality development reflects the best theories, research, and practical wisdom that social developmentalists have to offer. Shaffer helps students understand the processes that underlie developmental change, illustrating that different social contexts help determine development. The book describes and explains the processes by which unsocialized infants are integrated into the society and subculture in which they live. Though the book has a strong theoretical emphasis and is research-oriented, practical implications of such are integrated throughout the text.

In this revised edition, David Shaffer succeeds like never before at presenting the facts, theories, and processes of developmental psychology in a clear, easy-to-read style. Long known for the way he conveys his love of the discipline, Shaffer shows his readers how the theory and research he presents can be applied to a number of real-life settings. Like no other book in the field, this one pulls together all the relevant facts and ideas to ensure interest and understanding. Students learn new topics as these topics are introduced, and then they are shown how everything theyve learned fits together into a coherent storyline of developmental psychology.

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Thomson Advantage Books: Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence ,7th Edition (Thomson Advantage Books)

Cengage Advantage Books: Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence

Social and Personality Development

Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence

Developmental Psychology: Theory, Research, and Applications

Developmental psychology: Childhood and adolescence

Life-Span Human Development

Life-Span Human Development

Social and Personality Development

Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence