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John Santrock’s A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development combines the most current research with a proven pedagogical system to provide instructors and students with the best-selling topically arranged introduction to lifespan development. Drawing on a who's who list of expert consultants in all areas of developmental psychology, Santrock once again provides a trusted, comprehensive, readable, and engaging survey of the field. Rich applications and examples from a range of areas such as parenting, health care, and education ensure that students will remain engaged with the material. Significant revisions for the 5th edition include updated discussions of health and well-being as well as expanded coverage of diversity, culture, and gender.
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This accessible, visually appealing undergraduate text offers color photos in a color layout. While most textbooks on life-span development are organized chronologically, this one is organized topically, with sections on the life-span perspective, biological processes and physical development, cognitive processes, socioemotional development, social contexts of development, and death, dying, and grieving. The three main themes are research, applications, and contexts, with sections on each within each chapter. Each chapter begins with a map of main ideas and learning goals, and includes profiles of real professionals, boxes on research and diversity, review and reflection questions, and key terms and people. A companion web site contains research material for case exercises, plus video clips, self-inventories, and other exercises. For this fifth edition, much material has been rewritten and edited for clarity, and there is new and expanded material on numerous areas, such as criticisms of evolutionary psychology, the heredity/environment interaction, and neuroscience insights on intelligence. Santrock is affiliated with the University of Texas-Dallas. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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