AND PowerWeb (Topical Approach to Life-span Development) - Hardcover

Santrock, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073228761 ISBN 13: 9780073228761

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2005

Synopsis

Reviewers and adopters have praised John Santrock's "A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development" text for its themes of research, applications, and contexts, and students have loved it for its pedagogy and accessible writing. Building on these strengths, this third edition features more than 2,100 citations from the 21st century and new "Careers in Life-Span Development" boxes.

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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 developmental psychology and educational psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and introductory psychology at the undergraduate level. Dr. Santrock's research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. His research has included publication 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 recently was a member of the editorial board of Developmental Psychology and his publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Eighth Edition; LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT, Seventh Edition; CHILDREN, Sixth Edition; PSYCHOLOGY, Sixth Edition; and EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0073228761
• ISBN 13: 9780073228761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 665