A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span

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The Approach is Topical. The Distinction is Berger.

With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by Achieve (full course solution) or Achieve Read & Practice (e-book + online homework), Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organized approach.

This is not a reorganized iteration of another Berger textbook, but rather a fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic. But as always with Berger, it is exceptionally accessible and compelling, distinguished by an engaging narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and an emphasis on relating universal themes to students own lives.

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Authors

Kathleen Stassen Berger

Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Throughout most of her professional career, Berger has worked at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of ages and interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations. Berger is also the author of A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and Invitation to the Life Span. Her developmental texts are currently being used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide and are available in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as English. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying, and she has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning as her four daughters and three grandsons continue to develop, as she interacts with students every semester.

CHAPTER 1: The Life-Span Perspective
CHAPTER 2: Theories
CHAPTER 3: Genes and Generations
CHAPTER 4: Growth Over the Life Span
CHAPTER 5: Brain Development and Neuroscience
CHAPTER 6: Sensation, Perception, and Movement
CHAPTER 7: Memory and Information Processing
CHAPTER 8: Language: Communication from Prenatal to Death
CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and Cognition
CHAPTER 10: Personality, Identity, and Self
CHAPTER 11: Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 12: Emotional and Moral Development
CHAPTER 13: Attachment: Family and Friends
CHAPTER 14: Lifelong Education
CHAPTER 15: Health, Wellness, and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 16: Death and Dying