MYDEVELOPMENTLAB: Where human development comes to life!
Allyn & Bacon

ISBN-10: 0205543308
ISBN-13: 9780205543304

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2007
Format: Website
Published: 12/18/2006


MyDevelopmentLab is a state-of-the-art interactive and instructive solution for developmental psychology, designed to be used as a supplement to a traditional lecture course, or to completely administer an online course. MyDevelopmentLab gives you and your students access to a wealth of resources all geared to meet the individual teaching and learning needs of every instructor and every student.

 

Combining an E-book, video, audio, multimedia simulations, research support, practice tests, exams, and more, MyDevelopmentLab engages students and gives them the tools they need to enhance their performance in your course.

 

MyDevelopmentLab is appropriate for use in child development and human development courses. See a list of participating books on the MyDevelopmentLab Series page.

  • A wealth of hands-on activities let students experience significant psychological phenomena firsthand, through visual illusions, cognitive maps, memory retrieval exercises, and more, to help them understand and learn key concepts.

  • Unlimited use of Pearson's Research Navigator™ is the easiest way for students to start a research assignment. Complete with extensive help on the research process and four exclusive databases of credible and reliable source material – including the EBSCO Academic Journal and Abstract Database, New York Times Search by Subject Archive, "Best of the Web" Link Library, and Financial Times Article Archive and Company Financials – Research Navigator helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time.

  • A wealth of instructor support material simplifies and enriches the teaching experience. MyDevelopmentLab gives you access to text-specific materials including instructor's manuals, test banks, and PowerPoint presentations. Having all of these resources in one place makes preparing for class quick and easy.

  • A customized study plan, generated from chapter pre-tests and post-tests, identifies areas of weakness and strength to help students focus their attention and efforts where they're needed the most.

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    Read by more than half a million students worldwide, Berk’s Child Development has been the standard for 20 years. Now, this 20th anniversary edition builds on its long and successful history with the most cutting-edge research, pedagogy, and supplements package available! Laura Berk has taught thousands of students with diverse majors, future goals, interests, and needs. Her work is continually at the forefront of changes in the field. The Eighth Edition includes the most up-to-date scholarship while retaining all the hallmark features for which Laura Berk’s texts are known — unique story-telling, practical applications, meticulous research, and much more!

  • 0205615597Child Development, 8/E
    Berk
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 784 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205615597 | ISBN-13: 9780205615599
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    • Long considered the gold standard, the Seventh Edition of this best-selling topical approach to child development continues its tradition of being the most current and comprehensive text available.

     

    Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher in the field of child development, has revised her Child Development text, adding new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment, expanded coverage of culture, and an enhanced focus on education, health, and social issues, including many social policy topics addressed throughout the text. Berk’s revision provides contemporary and cohesive coverage on contexts for development, including but also extending beyond the family to peers, schooling, media, neighborhoods, communities, and societal values and priorities.

     

    In the Seventh Edition, Berk consulted with Canadian contributor Stuart Shanker, accomplished professor of developmental psychology at York University, to expand the text's coverage of Canadian content and to offer an integrated North American representation of the field. This balanced North American perspective provides students with a greatly enriched opportunity to learn about social and cultural contexts for development. Berk presents both classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based and real-world examples. Strengthening the connections between theory and applications, this edition's extensive revision highlights the most recent scholarship in the field, giving students an especially clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of child development. The effective topical organization consistently emphasizes the interrelatedness of all development — physical, cognitive, emotional, and social — throughout the text narrative and in special features.

  • 0205509940Child Development (with Milestones Card), 7/E
    Berk
    © 2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth Package; 784 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205509940 | ISBN-13: 9780205509942
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    • Child Development: Principles and Perspectives, 2E shows students the power of developmental research in practice!

     

    The topically-organized Child Development, Second Edition combines streamlined coverage with an application-driven active learning system.  Cook and Cook focus students on how they can promote positive child development by putting the science to work outside of the classroom.

    The approach recognizes that the majority of students enrolled in the child development course will likely interact in the future with children as educators, medical professionals, social workers, counselors, or as parents.  For this reason, the authors punctuate each chapter with numerous applications, including interviews with a real parent (or  child) and a real professional who in some way depends upon child development research.

    Child Development is supported by the new and improved MyDevelopmentLab, an exciting learning and assessment tool designed to increase student success in the classroom, and provide instructors with every resource needed to teach and administer their course. The latest version of MyDevelopmentLab features Virtual Child. This interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child.

  • 0205494064Child Development: Principles and Perspectives, 2/E
    Cook & Cook
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 624 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205494064 | ISBN-13: 9780205494064
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    • This topically organized book uses a student-friendly writing style, intuitive design, and an active learning system to help students critically explore the many perspectives on child development.

     

    Child Development: Principles and Perspectives encourages students to take an active role in their learning and to think about children's development from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews, cases, and vignettes, students gain a broad understanding of the viewpoints of people who work with, live with, and care for children, bringing this dynamic field to life! From the start of each chapter, students actively engage in reading, questioning, and connecting information to their everyday lives and the lives of others. The text's features uniquely work together as an integrated system to optimize student learning and memory.

     

    Child Development is accompanied by MyDevelopmentLab, an exciting new learning and teaching tool designed to increase student success in the classroom, and provide instructors with every resource needed to teach and administer their course. The text plus MyDevelopmentLab is a complete recipe for student success!

  • 0205460798Child Development: Principles and Perspectives (with Study Card)
    Cook & Cook
    © 2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper Package; 688 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205460798 | ISBN-13: 9780205460793
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    • The Developing Child, Eleventh Edition, is a best-selling topical child development book known for its personal, conversational writing style; balanced coverage of both theory and application; and strong emphasis on culture.

     

    Helen Bee is a prominent author and researcher whose successful books on development, and whose devotion to this field has earned her a national reputation. Denise Boyd of Houston Community College System adds a refreshing voice to this popular, longstanding text, while adding outstanding pedagogy and activities that help students replicate classic research.
  • 0205474535The Developing Child, 11/E
    Bee & Boyd
    © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205474535 | ISBN-13: 9780205474530
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    • Development Across the Lifespan offers a strong balance between research and applications.

     

    Robert Feldman offers students a chronological overview of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development–from conception through death with his text Development Across the Lifespan . The text presents up-to-date coverage of theory and research, with an emphasis on the application of these concepts by students in their personal–and future professional–lives. The text taps into students’ inherent interest in the subject of human development, encouraging them to draw connections between the material and their own experiences.

  • 0136016103Development Across the Life Span, 5/E
    Feldman
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 792 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136016103 | ISBN-13: 9780136016106
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    • A best-selling text unparalleled in its approach to teaching human development, Berk’s Development Through the Lifespan is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.

     

    Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment, and an enhanced focus on many social policy issues, while emphasizing the lifespan perspective throughout. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters” who share their developmental milestones at different stages of life. Students are provided with an especially clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains–physical, cognitive, emotional, social–throughout the text narrative and in special features.

     

    Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old.     

     

    While carefully considering the complexities of human development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of human development.

  • 0205491251Development Through the Lifespan, 4/E
    Berk
    © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 816 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205491251 | ISBN-13: 9780205491254
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    • Modular, manageable, meaningful–help your students discover the life span!

     

    Based on extensive market research, and informed by author Robert Feldman’s own teaching experience, Discovering the Life Span was created to meet key teaching needs. Many instructors would like to cover the entire life span in a single term. They would like their students to see the big picture and understand how the domains of development work together. And, perhaps most importantly, they would like their students to truly connect to the material. This remarkable first edition does all three of these things.Here’s how:

    • Structured around a modular format, each stage of life and each domain are treated equally throughout the text. This balanced format offers instructors teaching flexibility while helping students see the connections between the physical, cognitive, and social/personality domains.
    • With 9 chapters, 3 modules per chapter, and only 552 pages, Discovering the Life Span is more manageable for instructors and students. This format allows instructors to cover all areas of the life span without having to sacrifice content during their one-term course. Students get a better sense of the entire process of development.
    • Interactive online resources like My Virtual Child and MyDevelopmentLab, strong applications, and innovative pedagogy integrated throughout the text produce a meaningful learning experience for students. These tools best prepare students to apply the content to their personal and future professional lives.
  • 0136061672Discovering the Life Span
    Feldman
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 576 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136061672 | ISBN-13: 9780136061670
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    • This shorter, essentials version of Berk’s best-selling Development Through the Lifespan, 4/e, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Exploring includes all the features Berk’s texts are known for: engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, the most up-to date research, and practical applications that help students relate the subject to their personal and profession lives.

     

    Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has refashioned her text to provide the core information in the field with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications.  Visually stunning, pedagogically balanced, and fully integrated, the Exploring edition has all the great features of Development Through the Lifespan, 4e, in an abbreviated form.  The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way.

     

    Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains—physical, cognitive, emotional, social—throughout the text narrative and in special features.

     

    Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old. 

     

    Berk presents the most important classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, coherent, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and highlighting the application of theories and research to the real world, this text presents the most important scholarship in the changing field of human development.
  • 0205522688Exploring Lifespan Development
    Berk
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 616 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205522688 | ISBN-13: 9780205522682
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    • A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants and Children is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.  Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

     

    Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, presents the latest theories and findings in the field to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns.  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of children.     

     

    While carefully considering the complexities of child development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.

     

     

  • 0205541615Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, 6/E
    Berk
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 672 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205541615 | ISBN-13: 9780205541614
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    • As a best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk, Infants and Children is relied upon in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style and its commitment to examining the latest theory and research. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

    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 today's 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 and Children 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 and Children, 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.

  • 020542063XInfants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, 5/E
    Berk
    © 2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 656 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 020542063X | ISBN-13: 9780205420636
    Brief Description

    • A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.  Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

     

    Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, presents the latest theories and findings in the field to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns.  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of children.     

     

    While carefully considering the complexities of child development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.

     

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

  • 0205511384Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 6/E
    Berk
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 800 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205511384 | ISBN-13: 9780205511389
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • As a best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied upon in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style and its commitment to examining the latest theory and research. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

    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
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    • 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 classroom, this new edition offers perforated chapter practice tests at the end of the textbook.

  • 0205439675Lifespan Development, 4/E
    Boyd & Bee
    © 2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 736 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205439675 | ISBN-13: 9780205439676
    Brief Description

    • MyDevelopmentLab is a state-of-the-art interactive and instructive solution for developmental psychology, designed to be used as a supplement to a traditional lecture course, or to completely administer an online course. MyDevelopmentLab gives you and your students access to a wealth of resources all geared to meet the individual teaching and learning needs of every instructor and every student.

     

    Combining an E-book, video, audio, multimedia simulations, research support, practice tests, exams, and more, MyDevelopmentLab engages students and gives them the tools they need to enhance their performance in your course.

     

    MyDevelopmentLab is appropriate for use in child development and human development courses. See a list of participating books on the MyDevelopmentLab Series page.

  • 0205543308MYDEVELOPMENTLAB: Where human development comes to life!
    Allyn & Bacon
    © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205543308 | ISBN-13: 9780205543304
    URL: http://www.mydevelopmentlab.com
    Brief Description

    • 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. 

     

     

  • 0130307521The Story of Human Development
    Poole, Warren & Nunez
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 474 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0130307521 | ISBN-13: 9780130307521
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    • For the undergraduate child development course taught chronologically.

     

    The World of Children is a new chronological child development textbook by Joan Littlefield Cook and Greg Cook that helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. This exciting new text features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges, and encourages them to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives.

     

    The World of Children demonstrates the practical applications of child development through interviews with a diverse group of real parents (A Personal Perspective) and a variety of professionals (A Professional Perspective) who rely upon child development information in their jobs. Each chapter also spotlights the ways programs, laws, regulations, and other governing aspects of society can affect children (A Social Policy Perspective).

  • 0205447430The World of Children
    Cook & Cook
    © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 688 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205447430 | ISBN-13: 9780205447435
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