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intereact!Carol K. Sigelman, Elizabeth A. Rider
Edition: 5
Retail Price (not our price): $153.95
ISBN: 0534553818
ISBN-13: 9780534553814
Publication Date: 2005-03-15
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Product Description
Written in a clear, straightforward style, LIFE-SPAN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT provides the comprehensive coverage that you need to do well in this course. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development (such as physical growth, cognition, or personality) and includes information on four life stages: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood. Features included throughout the text help you chunk material into manageable portions, master the skills required to understand research data, and understand the processes of transformation that occur in key areas of human development.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
1) Very Informative [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Hits every aspect from every point of view possible. Gives great psychological background into who we are and what influences maybe made us that way. Very good book even at full price I paid it was very well worth it.2) Life-Span Human Development [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I found the layout of this book very interesting in that it took a portion of the life-span and brought you from infancy to old age. In this way, the natural progression of life could be viewed for each topic. The alternative would be to start with infancy, then go to childhood, adolescence, etc. With the approach of this book, I found tracking each topie, e.g., "Perception," more interesting.3) Tired Read [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Very dry read. Complicated and confusing order of addressing topics. Reading for my developmental psych class felt like a chore with this book.4) Choppy, and incredibly dry [Rating: 2 out of 5]
I used this book with a human development course at my university, and it was less than adequate for the job. The book is incredibly bland, and while it goes through the life span in order, it seems to jump around from different people's theories too much. Better if all of Piaget's ideas were presented together for a certain topic, etc.. On top of that, I believe that the method of citing the sources, while it works for research papers, seemed out of place in this setting. Numbered footnotes would have worked better. The method of citation used made it seem choppy, as all of a sudden you'd see a last name and a year in the middle of the text. This could be done more effectively, because the current method definitely broke up the text significantly. Hopefully, some of these changes will be implemented in a future edition.