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Invitation to the Life Span

Fifth Edition ©2022 Kathleen Stassen Berger

Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learning's breakthrough platform, Achieve, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling Invitation to the Life Span connects students to the field of developmental psychology in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way, and does so with ju...

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Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learning's breakthrough platform, Achieve, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling Invitation to the Life Span connects students to the field of developmental psychology in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way, and does so with just 15 concise chapters and an epilogue—just the right length for a single term. But in that brief presentation, students will encounter an extraordinary range of research breakthroughs, theories, practices, and stories, all conveyed in Berger’s signature narrative voice.

The new edition includes coverage in exceptionally fast-moving areas such as brain development, psychopathology, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of all ages, while taking advantage of innovative new tools for media-centered teaching and learning.

With Achieve, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable. Achieve brings all of the best aspects of the text and digital resources together in one place. Built on best practices in research in psychology and learning science, Achieve provides students with robust tools to succeed in their life-span development course, while giving instructors insights into their students' understanding and performance.

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Personal and engaging writing
Kathleen Berger’s voice—the voice of an experienced teacher, researcher, parent, and grandparent—makes the concepts and research that drive developmental psychology clear, compelling, and easy to grasp by relating them to the reader’s personal experiences.

Cutting-Edge Research
Coverage includes new developments in late-breaking research areas from epigenetics to end-of-life care. Special emphasis is on brain development, culture, diversity, education, and emotional development. Berger includes this research in a way your students will understand and be able to apply in their future careers.

Attention to Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development and makes culture an enlightening, unifying theme for the text.

Data Connections in Achieve
From interactive maps showing rates of childhood 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.

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From interactive maps showing rates of 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 child development themselves.

Visualizing Development infographics
These features tell the stories about important concepts visually in development and are assignable with quiz questions.

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Career Alerts present career options in various applied settings.

Chapter Apps that students can download to their smartphones have been added (one per chapter), offering a real-life application of the science of life-span development.
New and Updated Visualizing Development infographics, such as More Play Time, Less Screen Time in Chapter 6 and Life After 65: Living Independently in Ch. 15, with assigned questions in Achieve.

New topics and research, including coverage of COVID-19, impact of screen time, marriage and cohabitation trends, teen vaping, education, social justice issues, and health disparities.

Updated Features: Opposing Perspectives, A View from Science, A Case to Study, and Inside the Brain.

“I usually tell other professors about this textbook and how it does a really good job in delivering some of the most important concepts to students about human development in only 15 chapters! I also mention that the book comes with a lot of helpful tools and resources for students and for instructors who might be looking for different ways to enhance student learning.”
-- Valerie Neeley, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“This text is an easy to follow format that addresses the content in a student-friendly way. Research is presented in a way that students can more easily relate to their everyday life. There are many enhancements that, if students take the time to use them, could really enhance their understanding of the material.”
-- Sonya Kitsko, Robert Morris University

“Excellent text that students will love. Strong focus on diversity.”
-- Cynthia R. Deutsch, Central Virginia Community College

“Berger is a great writer. I get the impression that students feel like they are reading a story rather than a textbook. That is a great compliment in my opinion.”
-- Renee Babcock, Central Michigan University

“Probably the best invitation-level developmental psych book on the market.”
-- Daniel S. McConnell, University of Central Florida

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Table of Contents

Part One: The Beginnings
1. The Science of Human Development
2. From Conception to Birth

Part Two: The First Two Years
3. The First Two Years: Body and Mind
4. The First Two Years: The Social World

Part Three: Early Childhood
5. Early Childhood: Body and Mind
6. Early Childhood: The Social World

Part Four: Middle Childhood
7: Middle Childhood: Body and Mind
8: Middle Childhood: The Social World

Part Five: Adolescence
9: Adolescence: Body and Mind
10: Adolescence: The Social World

Part Six: Early Adulthood and Adulthood
11: Adulthood: Emerging Adulthood
12: Adulthood: Body and Mind
13: Adulthood: The Social World

Part Seven: Late Adulthood
14: Late Adulthood: Body and Mind
15: Late Adulthood: The Social World
Epilogue: Death and Dying

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 A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and Invitation to 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.

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