Looseleaf for Experience Human Development / Edition 13

by Ruth Feldman, Diane Papalia, Gabriela Martorell

Overview

This chronologically organized text,designed for the mainstream Human Development course,continues to showcase the author team's trademark of clear,accessible writing. The Eighth edition introduces a new pedagogical learning system,making the text even more valuable and easy-to-use for students. Applauded by adopters for its combination of research coverage with applications and real-life examples,the text continues to include superior coverage of cross-cultural topics and issues facing the disabled,in addition to exceptionally good coverage of health issues and applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259564062
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	12/25/2014
Edition description:	Net
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

As a professor, Diane E. Papalia has taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her bachelor’s degree, majoring in psychology, from Vassar College and both her master’s degree in child development and family relations and her Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology from West Virginia University. She has published numerous articles in such professional journals as Human Development, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Sex Roles, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Journal of Gerontology. Most of these papers have dealt with her major research focus, cognitive development from childhood through old age.

Gabriela Alicia Martorell was born in Seattle, Washington, but moved as a toddler to Guatemala. At eight, she returned to the United States and lived in Northern California until leaving for her undergraduate training at the University of California, Davis. After obtaining her B.S. in Psychology, she earned her Ph.D. in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Human Development from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She now works as a Full Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University and serves as the chair of the Institutional Review Board. Gabi maintains an active teaching schedule and teaches courses in Introductory Psychology, Lifespan Human Development, Infant Development, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Culture and Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Research Methods, Original Research Project and Capstone community-based learning courses in Early Childhood Education and Adulthood and Aging. She is committed to teaching, mentoring, and advising. She recently concluded a 5-year longitudinal National Science Foundation grant focused on the retention of higher education students from traditionally underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math. She is also a volunteer trainer for Court Appointed Special Advocates, and a group fitness instructor for the YMCA of South Hampton Roads.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I About Human Development
1 The Study of Human Development
2 Theory and Research
Part II Beginnings
3 Forming a New Life
4 Physical Development During the First Three Years
5 Cognitive Development During the First Three Years
6 Psychosocial Development During the First Three Years
Part III Early Childhood
7 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
8 Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood
Part IV Middle Childhood
9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
10 Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
Part V Adolescence
11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
12 Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
Part VI Young Adulthood
13 Physical and Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood
14 Psychosocial Development in Young Adulthood
Part VII Middle Adulthood
15 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
16 Psychosocial Development in Middle Adulthood
Part VIII Late Adulthood
(and more...)