- Paperback: 705 pages
- Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College Division; 6 edition (1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0697235831
- ISBN-13: 978-0697235831
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.3 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Book Description
This revised edition of the text offers an up-to-date research base for studying lifespan development, from infancy and childhood, to the various stages of adulthood and old age.
About the Author
John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology every year at the undergraduate level. In 2006, John received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in teaching award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology that focus on the contextual aspects of affectively-toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 12th Ed; Life-Span Development, 12th Edition; Adolescence, 12th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The book is nicely articulated and well organized.,
By A Customer
I found the book to be a wonderful resource, and it is filled with an abundance of significant information. The book also presents a great understanding of lifespan development and articulates the knowledge in a clear way. College students should find it an easy read, along with many nice pictures and helpful tables.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very brief explanations of Life Span stages,
By A Customer
Although the book is very colorful and has many articles that can help people use the knowledge in everyday life, the chapters (divided into life stages) are very sketchy and have very little new knowledge for college-aged students.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Sketchy,
By RAng - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life-Span Development, 9e with Student CD and PowerWeb (Paperback)
I couldn't agree more that this text is, to put it kindly, sketchy. I don't know what level it is meant for, but I'm using it in graduate school, and frankly, it isn't telling me anything I didn't learn back in Intro to Psych 101. It also appears very choppy within sections and you can tell where updates were stuck in and not well-integrated. (I always love the shoehorned-in references to women or minorities, not just a crime of this book, however.) It's also poorly written in spots, as I'm reading about something I already know and the explanation is about as clear as mud. I feel sorry for people who haven't learned some of the material elsewhere. As I will be facing this material on a licensing exam, I am in the market for another book - one that might teach me something I didn't learn in high school/freshman year in college.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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By Marie Rhoades - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Life-Span Development (Paperback)
This book is not the newest release, but there really aren't that many differences between the older version and the newer release. The biggest change is that two of the chapters have been combined into one in the newer book. Altogether it really contains the same information.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
The book is nicely articulated and well organized.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
I found the book to be a wonderful resource, and it is filled with an abundance of significant information. The book also presents a great understanding of lifespan development and articulates the knowledge in a clear way. College students should find it an easy read, along with many nice pictures and helpful tables.
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