Child Development and PH Observation Vol. 2 Child Development Package - Softcover

Feldman PH.D., Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131240889 ISBN 13: 9780131240889

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For courses in Child Development, Child and Adolescent Development, and Developmental Psychology.

Appealing to the many different backgrounds and career goals of students who take child development, this text offers the most current, balanced coverage of theory and research-with a focus on the application of that research-woven into a rich chronlogical presentation filled with useful student learning tools. New to this edition is the Prentice Hall Observations in Child Development CD-ROM. This CD-ROM brings to life more than 30 key concepts discussed in the text.

About this title

About the Author:

ROBERT S. FELDMAN is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies and recipient of the College Outstanding Teacher Award. He 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.

Among his more than 100 books, chapters, articles, and presentations, he has written Development Across the Life Span, edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children (Springer-Verlag), Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), and coedited 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 is an avid, if not particularly accomplished, pianist, and an excellent cook, despite his children's aversion to his experimentation with exotic cuisine. He lives with his three children and wife, a psychologist, in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131240889
• ISBN 13: 9780131240889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 608