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How Children Develop
Seventh Edition| ©2024 Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
How Children Develop is the topically organized resource teachers and researchers trust for the most up-to-date perspectives on child and adolescent development. The authors—each a well-known scientist and educator—integrate theory, cultural research, and applications in a style that is
How Children Develop is the topically organized resource teachers and researchers trust for the most up-to-date perspectives on child and adolescent development. The authors—each a well-known scientist and educator—integrate theory, cultural research, and applications in a style that is authoritative yet accessible to students.
This edition includes expanded coverage of the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues in childhood and adolescence, gender and sexual development, the influence of technology and social media, the open science movement, and more.
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The standard-setting introduction to child development—from researchers who lead the field.
How Children Develop is the topically organized resource teachers and researchers trust for the most up-to-date perspectives on child and adolescent development. The authors—each a well-known scientist and educator—integrate theory, cultural research, and applications in a style that is authoritative yet accessible to students.
This edition includes expanded coverage of the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues in childhood and adolescence, gender and sexual development, the influence of technology and social media, the open science movement, and more.
How Children Develop comes fully equipped with Macmillan Learning’s Achieve, with enhanced assessment capabilities, a robust video library, goal-setting and reflection surveys, free iClicker integration, best-in-class reporting and analytics, and more!
Features
Enduring Themes: The core of How Children Develop is the seven themes that unify all areas of child development. Including foundational ideas such as nature and nurture, continuous and discontinuous change, and the centrality of sociocultural context. The authors introduce the themes in Chapter 1 and revisit them throughout the text and in Chapter 16: Conclusions.
Improving Well-being through Applications: As thought leaders on public policy, the authors also present child development research as a force for change. In “Applications” features and throughout the text, they describe ways that research can improve well-being in education, health, family life, and more.
Focus on Critical Thinking: One of the authors’ core missions is to build readers’ understanding and appreciation of developmental science. In “A Closer Look” boxes and throughout the text, they unpack the landmark studies and methodologies that shape our understanding of the field. “Individual Differences” boxes focus on populations that differ from the norm in order to illustrate the complex interplay of factors that influence development. Review Questions and other pedagogy prompt readers to deepen their understanding of the concepts and consider how the material intersects with events in their own lives.
New to This Edition
COVID-19 Pandemic: The authors explore effects of the pandemic on pregnancy and the birth experience (Chapter 2), physical growth in infancy and early childhood (Chapter 3), perceptual development (Chapter 5), emotional development and mental health (Chapter 10), family and peer relationships (Chapters 12 and 13), and more.
Replicability: Chapter 1 addresses the replicability crisis that has emerged in psychology and other scientific disciplines, and presents efforts to improve methodologies. This discussion continues throughout the text in discussions of relevant research findings.
Gender Development: The authors highlight new insights into gender and sexual development, particularly in Chapter 15: Gender Development, including differences in areas such as cognitive ability and achievement, communication, and aggression.
Technology and Social Media: The text continues to follow the impact of technology and social media use, particularly in discussions of the bioecological context (Chapter 9) and friendships (Chapter 13).
“This text does a marvellous job of covering introductory level material in an engaging and accurate way without blurring too many details. There are many diverse representations in examples, cultural depictions, images, and videos. There are plenty of non-text supplementary materials available for instructors to enhance their course. As a newer instructor, this is particularly appealing.” – Jayde Homer, Washington University in St. Louis
“The chapter on Conceptual Development is one of the things that makes this book great. Most topically organized texts do not have this chapter. Thus Siegler et al. covers more cognitive developmental research than most texts. Chapter 7 is a key reason I adopted the text. The videos for this chapter were well chosen. They illustrate how research in this area is conducted and let the students observe the responses of real children. The videos are one of the best aspects of this text and my class…The authors do a great job of being current.” – Joseph Horton, Grover City College
“The clarity and accessibility of the writing throughout is excellent. [In Chapter 1,] the ‘Basic Questions About Child Development’ approach that is used to introduce the primary themes in the field is quite effective for providing context and provoking thought. The overview of Methods for Studying Child Development takes a highly structured approach to conveying the primary methodological considerations that scholars who study child development must take into account.” – Ty W. Boyer, Georgia Southern University
“It's incredibly contemporary and well-researched with strong support materials, including video and test banks. I love the LearningCurve quizzing feature for my students because students are better engaged with the text. I like the Developing Lives simulation, because I teach topically, and it helps students keep the whole, developing child in mind.” – Leigh A. Shaw, Stonehill College

How Children Develop
Seventh Edition| ©2024
Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
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How Children Develop
Seventh Edition| 2024
Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Child Development2. Prenatal Development and the Newborn Period
3. Biology and Behavior
4. Theories of Cognitive Development
5. Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy
6. Development of Language and Symbol Use
7. Conceptual Development
8. Intelligence and Academic Achievement
9. Theories of Social Development
10. Emotional Development
11. Attachment to Others and Development of Self
12. The Family
13. Peer Relationships
14. Moral Development
15. Gender Development
16. Conclusions

How Children Develop
Seventh Edition| 2024
Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
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Jenny Saffran

Elizabeth Gershoff

Campbell Leaper

Nancy Eisenberg

How Children Develop
Seventh Edition| 2024
Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
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Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Elizabeth Gershoff; Campbell Leaper
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