The Story of Human Development
Debra Poole, Central Michigan University
Amye Warren, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Narina Nunez, University of Wyoming

ISBN-10: 0130307521
ISBN-13: 9780130307521

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Cloth; 474 pp
Published: 12/30/2006

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For undergraduate courses in Lifespan Development

 

The Story of Human Development creates an engaging and original framework by integrating material on the typical individual's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developments with how they might develop in different environmental contexts.

 

Faced with the challenge of authoring a text that could be current, scholarly, and comprehensive while also being readable and practical, authors Debra Poole, Amye Warren, and Narina Nuñez created The Story of Human Development 1.e, a far departure from the ordinary human development text. By organizing the text with each age bracket represented by a two-chapter pair, the authors are able to examine all aspects of the development process. With a narrative infused with the rich and diverse stories of people’s lives, compelling arrangement, unique connecting summaries, and a focus on guiding developmental principles, this text puts the science of human development into a framework that better explains and explores how a whole person develops within varying environmental contexts. 

 

 

How do you integrate physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development to show the entire person? Do your students have trouble understanding how all the different aspects of development make a person?

 

Rather than providing snapshots of development in isolation, The Story of Human Development is organized to demonstrate how a whole person develops in context.  To accomplish this goal, each age period is organized in a new way to reflect the current state of the field, while still using a chronological framework.  After three introductory chapters, each age range of the life span is covered using two interrelated chapters.  

  • Profile of. . ., describes what a typical individual is like by summarizing the physical, cognitive, emotional and social developments of that age range.  
  • Pathways through. . ., explores how individuals develop in different environmental contexts.  This organization allows students to immediately see how the achievement of specific developmental milestones influences the whole person, and how a whole person is influenced by their environment. 
  • Students are better able to apply the science of the field to their lives and careers because they can better appreciate the development of an individual, not just their developmental “parts”.
  • The paired chapters are tied together through a two-page connecting Profile/Pathways Summary. This feature falls between paired chapters to revisit the typical developmental milestones that occur during the early, middle and later years of that age range and previews some of the major contextual influences that will be explored in the upcoming chapter.

 

How do you demonstrate contextual/environmental influences on the typical development of people? 

  • Pathways through. . ., directly focuses on the contextual influences that affect people as they develop in the "real world". As demonstrated in Chapter 9, Pathways through Middle and Late Childhood, physical abuse threatens children’s development by changing the way they attend to and interpret information, which affects their learning in school and how they get along with peers. Now that scientists have monitored the brains of abused children, tracked their academic progress, and looked at their social relationships, it isn’t clear whether the topic of abuse should appear under physical, cognitive, or social development. The "problem" is that a whole person develops—not fragmented parts. The Story of Human Development solves this problem by showing the whole person in context.

How do you encourage critical thinking in your course? Would you like a text that helps to develop critical thinking skills?

  • With The Story of Human Development three featured elements encourage and develop students' critical thinking skills:
  • Don’t Be Fooled! Everyone needs critical thinking skills to avoid jumping to the wrong conclusions. We use these skills whenever we spot that a “fact” in a magazine is implausible, realize that a study described as a controlled experiment is not a controlled experiment, and understand that a short-term solution for unwanted behavior may lead to long-term problems. Periodic Don’t Be Fooled! features build critical thinking skills by focusing on individual issues that have special relevance for human development research.
  • Solutions, and Innovations Textboxes. Provide a look at day-to-day life, both now and in the future. The Solutions feature provides practical advice for solving life problems and the Innovations feature explains contributions from cutting-edge technologies or research.

How important is it to have a text that incorporates real world examples and applications?

  • The Story of Development has real life stories that begin each chapter. Examples throughout the book are based on actual people and situations.

The text also focuses on 4 Guiding Developmental Principles which are introduced in Chapter 1:

  • Development is the joint product of nature and nurture
  • Physical, Cognitive, and Socio-economic development are interrelated
  • Developmental outcomes vary over time and contexts
  • Development is characterized by continuity and discontinuity

These principles thread through the text by appearing in the Revisiting Developmental Principles feature at the end of each Pathways chapter.

  

 

Poole's The Story of Human Development also comes with MyDevelopmentLab! To take a tour of MyDevelopmentLab, please visit: www.mydevelopmentlab.com.

 

MyDevelopmentLab is an easy-to-use learning management system that allows instructors to assess student progress and adapt course material to meet the specific needs of the class.

 

When students complete an online self-assessment, the results of this test generate an customized study plan, including a variety of tools to help them fully master the material. MyDevelopmentLab then reports these results to the instructor. Based on these reports, the instructor can adapt course material to suit the needs of individual students or the class as a whole.

 

  • Self-Assessment: Instructors need to regularly assess whether students understand the material and concepts in their textbook. MyDevelopmentLab allows students to test themselves and with aggregate class reports help instructors know what content their class has mastered and where they are still struggling.
  • Customized Study Plan: Generated by self-assessments, MyDevelopmentLab produces customized study plans for students and addresses different learning styles while helping students to study independently. It identifies areas of weakness and strength to focus students' attention and efforts where they are needed the most.
  • Customized Lecture Materials: Having all of these resources in one place makes preparing for class quick and easy. MyDevelopmentLab provides instructors with the ability to organize and base their course on their syllabus and on student performance. MyDevelopmentLab simplifies and enriches the teaching experience by offering text-specific materials including instructor's manuals, test banks, PowerPoint presentations, and much more.
  • Interactive Elements: A wealth of hands-on activities and exercises let students experience and learn firsthand. MyDevelopmentLab contains a wide variety of multimedia resources for students whether it is with the on-line eBook that matches the exact layout of the printed textbook and contains interactive resources that expand upon topics in the text or with other materials including audio, video, simulations, animations and much more.  

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    Compelling Organization:

    Rather than providing snapshots of development in isolation, The Story of Human Development is organized to demonstrate how a whole person develops in context.  To accomplish this goal, each age period is organized in a new way to reflect the current state of the field, while still using a chronological framework.  After three introductory chapters, each age range of the life span is covered using two interrelated chapters.  The first chapter, Profile of. . ., describes what a typical individual is like by summarizing the physical, cognitive, emotional and social developments of that age range.  The second chapter, Pathways through. . ., explores how individuals develop in different environmental contexts.  This organization allows students to immediately see how the achievement of specific developmental milestones influences the whole person, and how a whole person is influenced by their environment.  Students are better able to apply the science of the field to their lives and careers because they can better appreciate the development of an individual, not just their developmental “parts”.  See pages xx-xx for a brief Table of Contents that illustrates this paired chapter organization. 

     

    Unique Connecting Summaries

    The paired chapters are tied together through a two-page connecting Profile/Pathways Summary. This feature falls between paired chapters to revisit the typical developmental milestones that occur during the early, middle and later years of that age range and previews some of the major contextual influences that will be explored in the upcoming chapter.  See pages xx-xx for an example of the Profile/Pathways Summary for Early Childhood, Chapters 4 & 5. 

     

    Guiding Developmental Principles:

    Four guiding principles are introduced in Chapter 1:

    • Development is the joint product of nature and nurture
    • Physical, Cognitive, and Socio-economic development are interrelated
    • Developmental outcomes vary over time and contexts
    • Development is characterized by continuity and discontinuity

    These principles thread through the text by appearing in the Revisiting Developmental Principles feature at the end of each Pathways chapter.

     

    Stories of Our Lives

                Each chapter opens with a true story that illustrates a central theme in the material to come. Examples throughout the text are about real people (although often we changed names to protect people’s privacy and sometimes spliced interviews or observations of several people into a single example). To avoid cumbersome language, we refer to everyone one of us knows as “our friend so and so.” 

     

    Don’t Be Fooled!, Solutions, and Innovations

    Everyone needs critical thinking skills to avoid jumping to the wrong conclusions. We use these skills whenever we spot that a “fact” in a magazine is implausible, realize that a study described as a controlled experiment is not a controlled experiment, and understand that a short-term solution for unwanted behavior may lead to long-term problems. Periodic Don’t Be Fooled! features build critical thinking skills by focusing on individual issues that have special relevance for human development research. Two other textbox features provide a look at day-to-day life, both now and in the future. Solutions features provide practical advice for solving life problems and Innovations features explain contributions from cutting-edge technologies or research.

     

    1.      Introduction to Human Development

    2.      Heredity and Environment

    3.      Prenatal Development and Birth

    4.      Profile of the First Three Years

    5.      Pathways Through the First three Years

    6.      Profile of Early Childhood

    7.      Pathways through Early Childhood

    8.      Profile of Middle and Late Childhood

    9.      Pathways through Middle and late Childhood

    10.    Profile of Adolescence

    11.    Pathways through Adolescence

    12.    Profile of Early to Middle Adulthood

    13.    Pathways through Early to Middle Adulthood

    14.    Profile of Middle to Late Adulthood

    15.    Pathways through Middle to Late Adulthood

     

     Epilogue: The End of Life

    Debra Poole received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Iowa. She began her career at Beloit College in Wisconsin and then relocated to Central Michigan University, where she is a professor in the Department of Psychology. Deb is an expert on children’s eyewitness testimony, false memories, and techniques for interviewing children and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She drafted the forensic interviewing protocol that is used in Michigan using recommendations from her book with Michael Lamb, Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals (1998), as the model.

     

     

    Amye Warren attended the Georgia Institute of Technology as a National Merit Scholar for her bachelor’s degree and stayed to earn a doctoral degree in applied and experimental psychology with concentrations in developmental and cognitive psychology. She then began her career-long position in the Psychology Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), where she holds the Patricia Draper Obear Distinguished Teaching Professorship. She has published numerous articles on children’s language and memory development, the abilities of children as witnesses in the legal system, proper and improper techniques for interviewing child witnesses, and the relation between early language development and later reading abilities.

     

     

    Narina Nuñez earned her bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Cortland and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Cornell University. She then joined the psychology faculty at the University of Wyoming where she currently serves as chair of the department with a joint appointment in the Department of Criminal Justice. Her research has included studies of the impact of child maltreatment on development, how jurors perceive children and adolescents, and whether modifications in interviewing techniques can improve children’s testimony. Nuñez serves on the editorial board of the journal, Child Maltreatment, and recently received the George Duke Humphrey Outstanding Faculty Award from her university.

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      The most recent scholarship in the field is presented in a manageable and relevant way. Students are drawn in by Berks signature storytelling style and learn beside the texts “characters” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns. Students will recognize many topics of profound significance in todays world, such as poverty, welfare reform, health care, child-care quality, physical punishment, the obesity epidemic, and bilingual education, and learn what researchers have found about their impact on children.

      In the Fifth Edition, Infants, Children, and Adolescents has an even stronger emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment. Several reviewers of the fifth edition judge the coverage of brain and motor development to be the best in any child development text on the market today. Many aspects of the childs environment are considered, including home, extended family, school, neighborhood, community, social policy, and cultural influences. With unparalleled cross-cultural references, Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Fifth Edition is an indispensable resource for anyone caring for children in an increasingly global community.

      Throughout the Fifth Edition, Berk creates even stronger connections between developmental domains, and takes more opportunities to ask students to “Connect” topics to those in previous chapters. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal or professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly to students about issues they will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, social workers, health care providers, and others who work to secure the welfare of children.

      This book is also available in an abridged paperbound version, Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, comprised of Chapters 1-13.

    • 0205419283Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 5/E
      Berk
      © 2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 784 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205419283 | ISBN-13: 9780205419289
      Brief Description

      • Lifespan Development offers strong applications, learning objectives, and integrated assessment.

       

      Students who want to know "What does current research say?" and "Why is this important?" will appreciate both the applied nature of this text and the clarity and rigor of the authors' presentation of current research.  An exceptional pedagogical package that ties the textbook to online MyDevelopmentLab study tools complements the student-centered approach of the book and offers students the benefit of frequent self-assessment.

       

    • 0205540872Lifespan Development, 5/E
      Boyd & Bee
      © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 704 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205540872 | ISBN-13: 9780205540877
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • Lifespan Development presents the optimum balance between theory, research, and practical application in a warm, personal, accessible manner.

      Students and instructors will appreciate the personal style of this text, yet recognize the theoretical clarity and rigor of research used in presenting the most current and relevant discussions for the study of development in the 21st century. Additionally, in order to give your students the extra support they need to succeed in your c