Life-Span Development

by John W. Santrock

Book Overview

"This edition provides extensive learning connections throughout the chapters. The learning system connects the chapter opening outline, learning goals for the chapter, mini-chapter maps that open... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0073532096
• ISBN13: 9780073532097
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 643 Pages
• Weight: 4.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Very comprehensive and accessible textbook extending the entire lifespan

Very comprehensive and accessible textbook extending the entire lifespan, from conception to death. There’s a lot of pictures and examples and little boxes tying info from one chapter to another and stuff. Read it for a class and liked it a lot!

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Life Span Development

Great book! Drones on though about the history of the research and who cares about that? So, once you get through the snooze fest of the first three chapters, you're golden. Lots of information though.

Well organized, highly informative

There is no better book to be used for Developmental Psychology than this one. It not only provides the foundation of introductory psychology, but goes well into detail with all aspects of lifespan development. The material is extremely organized and chronological, making it very simple to use for reference and in the classroom. Highly recommended for all psychology students and instructors.

Wonderful Educational Resource

This book describes the very essence of life in a definite and distinctive way. There are no underlying factors or confusing verbage. The reader can simply investigate a topic of interest while receiving the information in its complete totality.The format of this book is simply wonderful. Santrock does an excellent job in allowing the reader to not only expand upon early life-span development . . . But he also introduces the reader to the various theories that helped shaped life-span development. In this book you learn of Vygotsky, Erickson, and Piaget and many, many others.I personally found this book to be of great help during my graduate studies. It provided me with practically everything that I needed on the subject of "development" and was a #1 source of reference in all practicums and papers. I am exceedingly happy that this book has renewed another edition and look forward to adding this updated version to my already sprawling collection.