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A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span
First Edition| ©2021 Kathleen Stassen Berger
With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by Achieve (full course solution) or Achieve Read & Practice (e-book + online homework), Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organized approach.
...With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by Achieve (full course solution) or Achieve Read & Practice (e-book + online homework), Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organized approach.
This is not a reorganized iteration of another Berger textbook, but rather a fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic. But as always with Berger, it is exceptionally accessible and compelling, distinguished by an engaging narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and an emphasis on relating universal themes to students' own lives.
The Achieve option for this book offers a variety of engaging activities including Data Connections (a hands-on approach to understanding research data, Visualizing Development, (which explores important concepts through a combination of media), and Developing Lives (where students to “raise” a virtual child from newborn to teenager) updated for Fall 2022 with new features and functionality.
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With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by Achieve (full course solution) or Achieve Read & Practice (e-book + online homework), Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organized approach.
This is not a reorganized iteration of another Berger textbook, but rather a fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic. But as always with Berger, it is exceptionally accessible and compelling, distinguished by an engaging narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and an emphasis on relating universal themes to students' own lives.
The Achieve option for this book offers a variety of engaging activities including Data Connections (a hands-on approach to understanding research data, Visualizing Development, (which explores important concepts through a combination of media), and Developing Lives (where students to “raise” a virtual child from newborn to teenager) updated for Fall 2022 with new features and functionality.
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New! Achieve for The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
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- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
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Data Connections. From interactive maps showing rates of breastfeeding and immunization, to manipulatable graphs showing trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviors, this feature lets students take a hands-on approach to understanding the data in life span development themselves.
Visualizing Development. These assessments link together graphics, text, and photographs to tell a visual story about an important concept in life-span development.
Developing Lives (fully integrated into Achieve and also available as a standalone resource). Loaded with interactive features and pedagogy, this remarkable online experience asks students to “raise” a virtual child through the teenage years, making crucial decisions and responding to events.
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IN THE TEXT
Unique coverage of Neuroscience and Development
A separate chapter on Neuroscience (Ch. 5) tells a cohesive story about brain development across the life span. In addition, in some chapters, Inside the Brain presents cutting-edge research on the brain with charts, figures, and photos.
Attention to Cultural Diversity
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development.
Critical Thinking and Applications-Based Pedagogy
From the chapter-opening stories and the "A View From Science" and “A Case to Study” features, to the questions presented in "Observation Quizzes," “Especially For,” “Think Critically,” and new “Chapter Apps” marginalia, to the Visualizing Development infographics, Berger’s pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications—for themselves and for the world at large.
Opposing Perspectives
The feature asks students to look at both sides of a controversial issue (from prenatal sex selection to e-cigarettes, etc.), thereby expanding the coverage of critical thinking.
Career Alerts present career options in various applied settings.
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"Berger covers areas that other textbooks do not and does so in a way that is accessible and engaging.
Berger places development in context, highlighting how our previous interactions and our unique backgrounds influence not only how we interact with others, as parents, caregivers, teachers, partners, friends, co-workers, but also what we take away from these interactions. Berger offers students models for how to become more effective caregivers, teachers, clinicians, and humans.
By using current issues (COVID-19), periodically returning to key concepts (interleafing), and offering multiple formative and summative assessment opportunities, Berger effectively blends relevance with sound educational practices. Berger’s engaging stories and explanations provide the immediate, practical connections to work and life that our current cohort of students expect.
I want something that will engage the students, to help them recognize the relevance and the potential of studying human development. This textbook helps me to achieve that."
— Rick Shifley, Ph.D, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
"The beginning stories are a nice 'hook' to encourage students to continue reading. The writing style is far superior to my current text. Combined with current research and diversity/cross-cultural information, this text may prove to be the best on the market."
— Kimberly Duvall, Ph.D, James Madison University"Kathleen Berger does a marvelous job of presenting issues and research that are current. The fact that there is literature cited regarding the current pandemic is particularly impressive. I am a big fan of the author's writing style. This is one of the main reasons that I was excited to hear that she had a topical text in the making. "
— James Guinee, Ph.D, University of Central Arkansas
"I really like how the text flows. There is an interconnectedness to the topics along with a smooth transition. I think my students would enjoy this text. It is much easier to read and follow than my current text. "
— Sabrina Rieder, SUNY Rockland Community College"The author has managed to explain some of the most difficult concepts in this class in a clear way without watering it down – that is a significant strength!! The example of differential susceptibility is one of the best I have read."
— Dawn Kriebel, Immaculata University


A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span
First Edition| ©2021
Kathleen Stassen Berger
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A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span
First Edition| 2021
Kathleen Stassen Berger
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: The Life-Span Perspective
CHAPTER 2: Theories
CHAPTER 3: Genes and Generations
CHAPTER 4: Growth Over the Life Span
CHAPTER 5: Brain Development and Neuroscience
CHAPTER 6: Sensation, Perception, and Movement
CHAPTER 7: Memory and Information Processing
CHAPTER 8: Language: Communication from Prenatal to Death
CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and Cognition
CHAPTER 10: Personality, Identity, and Self
CHAPTER 11: Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 12: Emotional and Moral Development
CHAPTER 13: Attachment: Family and Friends
CHAPTER 14: Lifelong Education
CHAPTER 15: Health, Wellness, and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 16: Death and Dying


A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span
First Edition| 2021
Kathleen Stassen Berger
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Kathleen Stassen Berger
Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Throughout most of her professional career, Berger has worked at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of ages and interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations.
Berger is also the author of The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span. Her developmental texts are currently being used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide and are available in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as English. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying, and she has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning as her four daughters and three grandsons continue to develop, as she interacts with students every semester, and as she revises each edition of her books.She is also the author of Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation (2019).


A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span
First Edition| 2021
Kathleen Stassen Berger
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Kathleen Stassen Berger
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