Lifespan Development, Global Edition, 8th edition

Updated and revised content keeps the text current

• UPDATED! Redesigned themed essays give students opportunities to explore a range of key topics in depth. Accompanying interactive Journaling Prompts enable students to apply concepts discussed in the essays, locking in what they’ve learned.
  • No Easy Answers essays reinforce the idea that there are many questions for which developmental psychologists cannot provide definitive answers. These discussions are designed to help students become more sensitive to the complexity of human development as well as more tolerant of the ambiguities inherent in the behavioral and social sciences. Accompanying Journaling Prompts encourage students to explore these complex issues further.
  • Research Report essays provide detailed accounts of specific research studies. Accompanying Journaling Prompts help students evaluate the research presented and make connections between research and everyday developmental issues.
  • Developmental Science essays explore practical applications of developmental theory and research. Each concludes with an interactive Journaling Prompt that encourages students to reflect on the ideas presented.
• UPDATED! In order to present the most up-to-date information in the field of developmental science, key topics throughout the text have been thoroughly updated. Highlights include the following topics:
  • Prenatal exposure to maternal stress and children’s social reasoning skills (Chapter 3);
  • Interactions between parenting and temperament (Chapter 6);
  • Preschool participation and adolescent health outcomes (Chapter 7);
  • Executive control development and the transition to school (Chapter 9);
  • Cross-ethnic friendships (Chapter 12);
  • Unemployment and depression (Chapter 16); and
  • Effects of verbalization on memory function (Chapter 17).
• REVISED! The authors have revised all of the instructional objectives of the text to increase the focus on assessment. Clear, assessment-driven learning objectives ensure that students are learning what they should from a course in human development, and that they’re capable of applying what they are learning to practical questions about human development.