Development Across the Life Span - Hardcover

Feldman, Robert S.

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9780130833785: Development Across the Life Span

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ISBN 10: 0130833789 ISBN 13: 9780130833785

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

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This text provides a broad overview of the field of human development, introducing major theorists, research, and applications, while connecting development to the students' own lives. Feldman (U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) also illustrates the commonalties and differences of various cultures; incorporates interviews with professionals in various fields who use the findings of development; and discusses ways that individuals can use development information in their own lives. The enclosed CD-ROM features author tip videos, theorist biographies, quizzes, and links to the Internet, including the text's companion website.

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About the Author:

Robert S. Feldman is professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies and recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award. He is both a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and a Senior One Teaching Fellow at UMass.

Professor Feldman was educated as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, from which he graduated with High Honors, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he specialized in social and developmental psychology.

Among his more than 100 books, chapters, and 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 the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of the Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, which have supported his research on the development of nonverbal behavior in children. A past Fulbright lecturer and research scholar, he is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society.

During the course of nearly 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 loves music, is an enthusiastic, if not particularly accomplished, pianist, and is an excellent cook. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.

Synopsis:

Appealing to the many different backgrounds and career goals of students who take developmental psychology, this chronological introduction to human development encourages students to get connected and interact with the subject matter.

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