Revel Access Code for Life Span Development
A Topical Approach
4th Edition
Will be published approx. on 27. October 2021
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Product license key
9998 pages
978-0-13-521221-9 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in Lifespan Development
A brief, topical overview of life span development
RevelTM Life Span Development: A Topical Approach helps students to see the "big picture" of development across the entire life span. Throughout this brief version of his hallmark text Development Across the Life Span, author Robert Feldman employs a modular framework that offers instructors maximum flexibility to teach the course however they envision. Concise coverage of all key principles helps instructors cover the whole of the field within a standard term, while a topical approach makes it easier for students to understand the scope of development within particular areas (such as social or personality development) across the entire life span. Thoroughly updated with the latest research and contemporary examples, the 4th Edition better ensures that students make connections between course concepts and their own lives and future careers.Revel is Pearson's newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience - for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.
NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.
A brief, topical overview of life span development
RevelTM Life Span Development: A Topical Approach helps students to see the "big picture" of development across the entire life span. Throughout this brief version of his hallmark text Development Across the Life Span, author Robert Feldman employs a modular framework that offers instructors maximum flexibility to teach the course however they envision. Concise coverage of all key principles helps instructors cover the whole of the field within a standard term, while a topical approach makes it easier for students to understand the scope of development within particular areas (such as social or personality development) across the entire life span. Thoroughly updated with the latest research and contemporary examples, the 4th Edition better ensures that students make connections between course concepts and their own lives and future careers.Revel is Pearson's newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience - for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.
NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
40 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-521221-9 (9780135212219)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
About our authors Robert S. Feldman is professor of psychological and brain sciences and deputy chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students. During the course of 3 decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University and Virginia Commonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts.
Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts.
A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University (from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award). He has an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 200 books, book chapters and scientific articles.
Professor Feldman has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children and Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of Child Development, Understanding Psychology and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life, work that he described in The Liar in Your Life, a trade book published in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.
Professor Feldman is past president of the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation, a consortium of social, behavioral, and brain science societies. In addition, he is President of the board of New England Public Radio.
Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and traveling. He has 3 children and 4 grandchildren, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke Mountain Range.
Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts.
A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University (from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award). He has an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 200 books, book chapters and scientific articles.
Professor Feldman has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children and Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of Child Development, Understanding Psychology and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life, work that he described in The Liar in Your Life, a trade book published in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.
Professor Feldman is past president of the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation, a consortium of social, behavioral, and brain science societies. In addition, he is President of the board of New England Public Radio.
Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and traveling. He has 3 children and 4 grandchildren, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke Mountain Range.
Content
1. An Orientation to Lifespan Development
2. Genetics, Prenatal Development, and Birth
3. Physical Growth and Aging Across the Life Span
4. Health and Wellness
5. Cognitive Growth: Piaget and Vygotsky
6. Cognitive Growth: Information Processing Approaches
7. Language Development
8. Intelligence
9. Social and Emotional Development
10. Development of the Self
11. Moral Development and Aggression
12. Gender and Sexuality
13. Friends and Family
14. Schooling, Culture, and Society: Living in a Multicultural World
15. Death and Dying
2. Genetics, Prenatal Development, and Birth
3. Physical Growth and Aging Across the Life Span
4. Health and Wellness
5. Cognitive Growth: Piaget and Vygotsky
6. Cognitive Growth: Information Processing Approaches
7. Language Development
8. Intelligence
9. Social and Emotional Development
10. Development of the Self
11. Moral Development and Aggression
12. Gender and Sexuality
13. Friends and Family
14. Schooling, Culture, and Society: Living in a Multicultural World
15. Death and Dying