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The Developing Person Through Childhood

Eighth Edition  ©2018 Kathleen Stassen Berger Formats: E-book, Print

Authors

  • Headshot of Kathleen Stassen Berger

    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.

Table of Contents

PART I The Beginnings
CHAPTER 1
The Science of Human Development
CHAPTER 2
Theories
CHAPTER 3
The New Genetics
CHAPTER 4
Prenatal Development and Birth


PART II The First Two Years
CHAPTER 5
The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 6
The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 7
The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development


PART III Early Childhood
CHAPTER 8
Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 9
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 10
Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development


PART IV Middle Childhood
CHAPTER 11
Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 12
Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 13
Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development

APPENDIX
More About Research Methods

 

Product Updates

Hundreds of New Research Citations
Berger presents a thoroughly contemporary introduction to development research with the latest on brain development, psychopathology, and other cutting-edge topics.

New Critical Thinking Questions in the Margins
These questions appear throughout each chapter, inspiring students to analyze and reflect on what they are reading.

New Media Feature! Data Connections
In each chapter, students have an opportunity to expand their understanding of key topics and data interactively. From interactive maps showing rates of breastfeeding and immunization across the country (and around the world), to manipulatable graphs showing trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviors, students will be able to take a new hands-on-approach to understanding the data in child development themselves.

Authors

  • Headshot of Kathleen Stassen Berger

    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.

Table of Contents

PART I The Beginnings
CHAPTER 1
The Science of Human Development
CHAPTER 2
Theories
CHAPTER 3
The New Genetics
CHAPTER 4
Prenatal Development and Birth


PART II The First Two Years
CHAPTER 5
The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 6
The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 7
The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development


PART III Early Childhood
CHAPTER 8
Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 9
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 10
Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development


PART IV Middle Childhood
CHAPTER 11
Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
CHAPTER 12
Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 13
Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development

APPENDIX
More About Research Methods

 

Product Updates

Hundreds of New Research Citations
Berger presents a thoroughly contemporary introduction to development research with the latest on brain development, psychopathology, and other cutting-edge topics.

New Critical Thinking Questions in the Margins
These questions appear throughout each chapter, inspiring students to analyze and reflect on what they are reading.

New Media Feature! Data Connections
In each chapter, students have an opportunity to expand their understanding of key topics and data interactively. From interactive maps showing rates of breastfeeding and immunization across the country (and around the world), to manipulatable graphs showing trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviors, students will be able to take a new hands-on-approach to understanding the data in child development themselves.

Exceptional in its currency, global in its cultural reach, Kathleen Berger’s portrait of the scientific investigation of childhood and adolescent development helps bring an evolving field into the evolving classroom. Guided by Berger’s clear, inviting authorial voice, and page after page of fascinating examples from cultures around the world, students see how classic and current research, and the lives of real people, shape the field’s core theories and concepts.

Kathleen Stassen Berger
The same hallmark features of Berger’s other textbooks are here: current research, compelling personal narratives, and culturally diverse presentation. Kathleen Berger’s voice—the voice of an experienced teacher, researcher, parent and grandparent—makes the concepts and research that drive developmental psychology clear, compelling, and easy to grasp by relating them to the reader’s personal experiences.

Cutting-Edge Research
Coverage includes new developments, in late-breaking research areas from epigenetics to end-of-life care. Special emphasis is on brain development, culture, genetics, and emotional development. Berger includes this research in a way your students will understand and be able to apply in their future careers.

Attention to Cultural Diversity
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development and makes culture an enlightening, unifying theme for the text.

Critical Thinking and Applications-Based Pedagogy
From the chapter opening stories, the "A View From Science" to the questions presented in "Observational Quizzes", and Critical Thinking marginalia, to the infographics, Berger’s pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications—for themselves and for the world at large—of the material they are learning.

Infographics
This feature maps out the key ideas and applications of each chapter graphically, making it easier for visually-oriented learners to summarize and retain the most important material.

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