Development Across the Life Span, 5/E
Robert S. Feldman, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

ISBN-10: 0136016103
ISBN-13: 9780136016106

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 792 pp
Published: 10/30/2007

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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.

Focus on Applications:

 

From Research to Practice boxes describe research on a contemporary issue in lifespan development and explain how this research may be applied in specific situations. These features enable students to see the impact of developmental research throughout society.

Example: From Research to Practice--Using Developmental Research to Improve Public Policy (pg 37)

 

Becoming an Informed Consumer of Development boxes show students how they can make use of the lifespan development research presented in the text. These sections encourage students to actively engage with the material and apply the concepts they’re learning in their own lives.

Example: Becoming an Informed Consumer of Development--Thinking Critically About "Expert" Advice (pg 40)

 

Developmental Diversity features highlight issues that are relevant in today’s multicultural society. Located within the main narrative of the text, these sections focus on lifespan development theories that speak to the differences between—and similarities among—various groups of people.

Example: Developmental Diversity--How Culture, Ethnicity, and Race Influence Development (pg 8)

 

Careers in Lifespan Development boxes offer students insight into how developmental psychology is applicable in numerous fields. Focusing on specific individuals from diverse professions, these features show students how the material in the text may be utilized in their future careers.

Example: Careers in Lifespan Development--Diana Hegger, Neonatal Nurse and Educator (pg 99)

 

Focused on Pedagogy:

 

Prologues open each chapter and describe an individual or situation that is relevant to the basic developmental issues being addressed in the chapter. 

Example: The prologue for Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Infant is entitled "A 22-Ounce Miracle" and describes the premature birth of a little girl at 25 weeks.

 

Looking Ahead sections orient readers to the topics to be covered, bridging the opening prologue with the remainder of the chapter and providing orienting questions.

Example: Looking Ahead (pg 86)

 

Review and Apply Sections are three short recaps of the chapters’ main points, followed by questions designed to provoke critical thinking. There are three "Review and Apply" sections to each chapter.

Example: Review and Apply (pg 95)

 

Running Glossary of key terms are defined in the margins of the page on which the term is presented.

Example: Preterm Infants (pg 95)

 

End-of-Chapter Material: Each chapter ends with an Epilogue that refers back to the opening Prologue, a bulleted summary, and a list of key terms and concepts. This material is designed to help students study and retain the information in the chapter.

Example: Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Infant end of chapter material (pp 112-113)

 

Focus on Assessment:

 

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  • Includes Virtual Child, an interactive simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 17 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.

     

    Additional Features:

     

    Observation Videos for STUDENTS

    • Clips cover the entire lifespan
    • Integrated into the text with icons
    • Integrated into MyDevelopmentLab
    • Many NEW videos
    • New longer integrative segments at end of sections

    Videos for INSTRUCTORS

    • Observation videos--Located on the Instructor's Resource CD (IRCD), within MyDevelopmentLab, AND integrated into the Instructor's Resource Manual (IRM) and Test Item File Questions (TIF)
    • Lecture Launcher Videos--Clips for Films for Humanities and Sciences; available DVD or VHS; integrated into IRM and TIF, available to ANY size adoption

     

     

    • 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.  

     

     

    Additions of New and Updated Material 

    • Advances in such areas as behavioral genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and cross-cultural approaches to development receive expanded and new coverage.
    • More than a thousand new citations have been added, with most of those from articles and books published in the last three years.

    New topics in every chapter:

     

    Chapter 1

    • Critical thinking and evaluating research
    • Cohort effects and terrorism
    • Cognitive neuroscience perspective
    • Contextual perspective
    • Replication
    • Meta-analysis
    • Psychophysiological methods
    • Electroencephalogram (EEG)
    • Computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan
    • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan
    Chapter 2
    • “Designer babies”
    • Prenatal vitamins and folic acid
    • Prenatal testing

    Chapter 3

    • Bradley birthing method
    • Hypnobirthing
    • Circumcision of newborn male infants
    • Side effects to use of birthing drugs, including Ransjö-Arvidson article
    • Postpartum depression
    • Newborn medical screening

    Chapter 4

    • Gender, ethnic, and racial differences in weight/height norms
    • Overweight infants
    • Connection between reflexes and evolutionary perspective
    • Shaken baby syndrome
    • Infant discrimination of rhythm

    Chapter 5

    • Exposing infants to educational material
    • Infant-directed speech material
    • Importance of reading to infants
    • Distinction between implicit and explicit memory
    • New evidence to nativist position on language
    Chapter 6
    • Cultural differences in self-recognition
    • New findings from NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development on increased disruptiveness of children in child care
    • Mirror neurons and their link to imitation and autism
    • Conceptual definition of emotion
    • Adaptive value of emotions
    • Reactive Attachment Disorder
    • Darwin and evolutionary perspective to discussion of infants’ facial expressions

    Chapter 7

    • Montessori Schools
    • Brain development (e.g., cerebellum development)
    • Computer use by preschoolers
    • Reggio Emilia preschools
    • Baron-Cohen theory of autism (extreme male brain)
    • Forensic developmental psychology

    Chapter 8

    • Table on types of play age differences in targets of abuse
    • Parent coaching
    • Role of genetics in influence on childrearing practices
    • Prevalence of physical discipline in other cultures

    Chapter 9

    • Increasing school pressure
    • Decline in life expectancy due to childhood obesity
    • School lunches as a cause of obesity
    • Elimination of recess and obesity
    • Fetal alcohol syndrome
    • Familial retardation
    • Stanford-Binet 5th ed. (SB5)
    • ADHD behavioral treatment
    • Contemporary calculation of IQ scores
    • Importance of good diet to staying fit
    • Connection between ADHD and diet

    Chapter 10

    • How children are influenced by their siblings
    • Online bullying
    • Multigenerational families
    • Family life and poverty

    Chapter 11

    • Adolescence and brain development
    • Sleep deprivation
    • Cyberspace dangers
    • Internet gambling
    • Intellectual/academic development due to prefrontal cortex development
    • STI avoidance
    • STD terminology changed to STI
    • HPV and HPV vaccine
    • leptin hypothesis regarding obesity and early onset of puberty

    Chapter 12

    • Online gambling
    • Identity development and cognitive gains
    • Relationship of clique/crowds membership and cognitive development
    • Cultural and gender differences in the development of autonomy

    Chapter 13

    • Advantages of a racially diverse college campus
    • Continued neurological pruning and myelination during middle adulthood
    • Racial diversity of college and cognition
    • Hardiness
    • Resilience

    Chapter 14

    • Women living without a spouse
    • Filtering model
    • Transition to parenthood
    • Cultural differences in the transition to parenthood
    • Co-parenting team models
    • Women living alone

    Chapter 15

    • Hormone Replacement Therapy controversy
    • Type D behavior
    • Role of hostility in Type A behavior
    • Findings/recommendations regarding hormone replacement therapy and the Women’s Health Initiative

    Chapter 16

    • Trends in marital satisfaction over time
    • Violence against women worldwide
    • Multigenerational families
    • Divorce statistics
    • Consequences of divorce in middle adulthood

    Chapter 17

    • Exercising the aging brain
    • Telomeres
    • Neural growth possible throughout lifespan
    • Link between physical exercise and neural growth
    • Macular degeneration
    • Link between mental exercise and reduction of cognitive declines
    • Link between hearing loss and cognitive declines
    • Sirtuins family of genes that promote longevity

    Chapter 18

    • Retirement
    • Cultural views of aging
    • Nursing home programs that encourage intergenerational interaction, such as establishing day care centers
    • Poverty in the elderly
    • Peck’s stages

    Chapter 19

    • Surviving the death of a long-term spouse
    • Terry Schaivo case
    • Living wills
    • Assisted suicide
    • Cultural differences in mourning
    • Marital relationships and grief

     

    • Brief Table of Contents

     

    PART 1           BEGINNINGS


    CHAPTER 1:     An Introduction to Lifespan Development                                 

    • Prologue: New Conceptions
    • Looking Ahead
      • AN ORIENTATION TO LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
      • KEY ISSUES AND QUESTIONS: DETERMINING THE NATURE–AND NURTURE–OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
      • THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
      • RESEARCH METHODS
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 2: The Start of Life: Prenatal Development                                               

    • Prologue: The Future is Now
    • Looking Ahead
      • EARLIEST DEVELOPMENT
      • THE INTERACTION OF HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
      • PRENATAL GROWTH AND CHANGE
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 3: Birth and the Newborn Infant                

    • Prologue: A 22-Ounce Miracle
    • Looking Ahead
      • BIRTH
      • BIRTH COMPLICATIONS
      • THE COMPETENT NEWBORN
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue

    PART 2           INFANCY FORMING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE

     

    CHAPTER 4: Physical Development in Infancy                                                          

    • Prologue: First Steps
    • Looking Ahead
      • GROWTH AND STABILITY
      • MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
      • THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENSES
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

     CHAPTER 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy                                                        

    • Prologue: The Electric Nanny
    • Looking Ahead
      • PIAGET’S APPROACH TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
      • INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPROACHES TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
      • THE ROOTS OF LANGUAGE
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back 

    CHAPTER 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy                                     

    • Prologue: The Velcro Chronicles
    • Looking Ahead
      • DEVELOPING THE ROOTS OF SOCIABILITY
      • FORMING RELATIONSHIPS
      • DIFFERENCES AMONG INFANTS
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    PART 3           THE PRESCHOOL YEARS

     

    CHAPTER 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years                 

    • Prologue: Aaron
    • Looking Ahead
      • Physical Growth
      • Intellectual Development
      • The Growth of Language and Learning
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 8: Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years                  

    • Prologue: Feeling His Mother’s Pain
    • Looking Ahead
      • FORMING A SENSE OF SELF
      • FRIENDS AND FAMILY: PRESCHOOLERS’ SOCIAL LIVES
      • MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGGRESSION
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue

    PART 4           THE MIDDLE CHILDHOOD YEARS

     

    CHAPTER 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood                    

    • Prologue: La-Toya Pankey and The Witches
    • Looking Ahead
      • PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
      • INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
      • SCHOOLING: THE THREE Rs (AND MORE) OF MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue 

    CHAPTER 10: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood                     

    • Prologue: Play Time
    • Looking Ahead
      • THE DEVELOPING SELF
      • RELATIONSHIPS: BUILDING FRIENDSHIP IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
      • FAMILY AND SCHOOL: SHAPING CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue

    PART 5           ADOLESCENCE

                  

    CHAPTER 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence                            

    • Prologue: A Teenager’s Day
    • Looking Ahead
      • PHYSICAL MATURATION
      • COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOLING
      • THREATS TO ADOLESCENTS’ WELL-BEING
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue

    CHAPTER 12: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence                

    • Prologue: Adolescent Trio
    • Looking Ahead
      • IDENTITY: ASKING “WHO AM I?”
      • RELATIONSHIPS: FAMILY AND FRIENDS
      • DATING, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    PART 6           EARLY ADULTHOOD

     

    CHAPTER 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood                       

    • Prologue: A Tale of Two Students
    • Looking Ahead
      • PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
      • COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
      • COLLEGE: PURSUING HIGHER EDUCATION
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 14: Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood                        

    • Prologue: Love Without Borders
    • Looking Ahead
      • FORGING RELATIONSHIPS: INTIMACY, LIKING, AND LOVING DURING EARLY ADULTHOOD
      • THE COURSE OF RELATIONSHIPS
      • WORK: CHOOSING AND EMBARKING ON A CAREER
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue 

    PART 7           MIDDLE ADULTHOOD

     

    CHAPTER 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood                    

    • Prologue: Fit for Life
    • Looking Ahead
      • PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
      • HEALTH
      • COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 16: Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood                     

    • Prologue: A Winding Journey to Success
    • Looking Ahead
      • PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
      • RELATIONSHIPS: FAMILY IN MIDDLE AGE
      • WORK AND LEISURE
    • Looking Back
    • Epilogue

    PART 8           LATE ADULTHOOD

             

    CHAPTER 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood                        

    • Prologue: Cycling Through Late Adulthood
    • Looking Ahead
      • PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN LATE ADULTHOOD
      • HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN LATE ADULTHOOD
      • COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN LATE ADULTHOOD
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back

    CHAPTER 18: Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood                         

    • Prologue: Late Love
    • Looking Ahead
      • PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESSFUL AGING
      • THE DAILY LIFE OF LATE ADULTHOOD
      • RELATIONSHIPS: OLD AND NEW
    • Epilogue

    PART 9           ENDINGS

     

    CHAPTER 19: Death and Dying

    • Prologue: Choosing Death
    • Looking Ahead
      • DYING AND DEATH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
      • CONFRONTING DEATH
      • GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT
    • Epilogue
    • Looking Back 

    Glossary

    References

    Acknowledgments

    Name Index

    Subject Index

        Robert S. Feldman is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students.  During the course of more than two decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, Virginia Commonwealth University, in addition to the University of Massachusetts.

        Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow.  He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts

        A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children (Springer-Verlag), Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (Cambridge University Press). He is also author of Child Development, Understanding Psychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life.  His books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.  His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life and the use of nonverbal behavior in impression management, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

        Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.

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