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Experiencing the Lifespan
Sixth Edition ©2022 Janet Belsky Formats: Achieve, Read & Practice, E-book, Print
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Janet Belsky
Born in New York City, Janet Belsky always wanted to be a writer but was also very interested in people. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she deferred to her more practical and people-loving side and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago. Janet spent her thirties in New York City teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, and doing clinical work in hospitals and nursing homes. During this time, she wrote one trade book, Here Tomorrow: Making the Most of Life After 50, got married, adopted a child, and, with the publication of the first undergraduate textbook in the psychology of aging, began what turned into a lifelong developmental science textbook writing career. In 1991, Janet moved to Tennessee with her family to write and teach undergraduate courses in psychology at Middle Tennessee State University. After her husband died in 2012, Janet moved to Chicago and developed new passions: enrolling in the Master’s Program in Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, volunteering to teach older adults. Still, she remains committed to her enduring mission—exciting readers in the marvelous human lifespan through writing Experiencing the Lifespan.
Table of Contents
PART I The Foundation
Chapter 1: The People and the Field
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth
PART II Infancy and Toddlerhood
Chapter 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 4: Emotional and Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
PART III Childhood
Chapter 5: Early Childhood
Chapter 6: Middle Childhood
Chapter 7: Settings for Development: Home, School, and Community
PART IV Adolescence
Chapter 8: Physical Development in Adolescents
Chapter 9: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development in Adolescents
PART V Early and Middle Adulthood
Chapter 10: Constructing an Adult Life
Chapter 11: Social Development: Relationships and Roles
Chapter 12: Midlife
PART VI Later Life
Chapter 13: Later Life: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development
Chapter 14: The Physical Challenges of Old Age
PART VII Endings
Chapter 15: Death and Dying
Final Thoughts
Product Updates
Achieve for Experiencing the Lifespan
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
- A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
New in the Text
The latest research and data
Coverage includes COVID-19’s worldwide impact, parenting styles around the world, the effects of socioeconomic status across the lifespan, the importance of mind-mindedness in human development, and much more.
Explores the life consequences of the digital and social media revolutions in depth
This coverage is found throughout and in new “Final Thoughts” sections at the end of every chapter. Topics include the impact of screen-time on toddlers and children and social media use and addiction among teens and emerging adults.
New and updated Trending in Developmental Science
Discussions showcase new and important research on hot topics in development, such as the role of Instagram in teen body distress, the ethics of prosocial acts, systemic racism and sexism in school and at work, and grief associated with COVID-19.
New and updated Interventions sections
Belsky creatively pulls the research together and makes innovative practice-oriented conclusions that advance the field. Topics include offsetting bystander behavior, encouraging less gender-typed play, providing teen-friendly sex education, and promoting midlife happiness encourage applications of book concepts to real life.
Authors
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Janet Belsky
Born in New York City, Janet Belsky always wanted to be a writer but was also very interested in people. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she deferred to her more practical and people-loving side and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago. Janet spent her thirties in New York City teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, and doing clinical work in hospitals and nursing homes. During this time, she wrote one trade book, Here Tomorrow: Making the Most of Life After 50, got married, adopted a child, and, with the publication of the first undergraduate textbook in the psychology of aging, began what turned into a lifelong developmental science textbook writing career. In 1991, Janet moved to Tennessee with her family to write and teach undergraduate courses in psychology at Middle Tennessee State University. After her husband died in 2012, Janet moved to Chicago and developed new passions: enrolling in the Master’s Program in Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, volunteering to teach older adults. Still, she remains committed to her enduring mission—exciting readers in the marvelous human lifespan through writing Experiencing the Lifespan.
Table of Contents
PART I The Foundation
Chapter 1: The People and the Field
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth
PART II Infancy and Toddlerhood
Chapter 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 4: Emotional and Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
PART III Childhood
Chapter 5: Early Childhood
Chapter 6: Middle Childhood
Chapter 7: Settings for Development: Home, School, and Community
PART IV Adolescence
Chapter 8: Physical Development in Adolescents
Chapter 9: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development in Adolescents
PART V Early and Middle Adulthood
Chapter 10: Constructing an Adult Life
Chapter 11: Social Development: Relationships and Roles
Chapter 12: Midlife
PART VI Later Life
Chapter 13: Later Life: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development
Chapter 14: The Physical Challenges of Old Age
PART VII Endings
Chapter 15: Death and Dying
Final Thoughts
Product Updates
Achieve for Experiencing the Lifespan
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
- A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
New in the Text
The latest research and data
Coverage includes COVID-19’s worldwide impact, parenting styles around the world, the effects of socioeconomic status across the lifespan, the importance of mind-mindedness in human development, and much more.
Explores the life consequences of the digital and social media revolutions in depth
This coverage is found throughout and in new “Final Thoughts” sections at the end of every chapter. Topics include the impact of screen-time on toddlers and children and social media use and addiction among teens and emerging adults.
New and updated Trending in Developmental Science
Discussions showcase new and important research on hot topics in development, such as the role of Instagram in teen body distress, the ethics of prosocial acts, systemic racism and sexism in school and at work, and grief associated with COVID-19.
New and updated Interventions sections
Belsky creatively pulls the research together and makes innovative practice-oriented conclusions that advance the field. Topics include offsetting bystander behavior, encouraging less gender-typed play, providing teen-friendly sex education, and promoting midlife happiness encourage applications of book concepts to real life.
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Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Belsky’s popular text is more effective than ever at helping students reach new levels of understanding of developmental psychology. Belsky draws from a variety of cultures around the world to tell the story of human development, communicating the scientific understanding and human impact of developmental psychology in the highly conversational style of a great teacher. The new edition features significant research breakthroughs, effective pedagogy, and captivating examples drawn from throughout the world—and still is just the right length and level for a single-term course. And because students’ and instructors’ needs are changing, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable.
The Achieve platform sets a whole new standard for digital content delivery—especially for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics—and it is the exclusive home of extraordinary resources such as the Developmental Psychology Video Collection.
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Experiencing the Lifespan
Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Belsky’s popular text is more effective than ever at helping students reach new levels of understanding of developmental psychology. Belsky draws from a variety of cultures around the world to tell the story of human development, communicating the scientific understanding and human impact of developmental psychology in the highly conversational style of a great teacher. The new edition features significant research breakthroughs, effective pedagogy, and captivating examples drawn from throughout the world—and still is just the right length and level for a single-term course. And because students’ and instructors’ needs are changing, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable.
The Achieve platform sets a whole new standard for digital content delivery—especially for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics—and it is the exclusive home of extraordinary resources such as the Developmental Psychology Video Collection.
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