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Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Ninth Edition
- Laura E. Berk - Illinois State University
June 2022 | 816 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Recipient of the 2024 Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity Award
This award recognizes textbooks and learning materials that have demonstrated excellence over time.
A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk's Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition's extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.
This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.
This award recognizes textbooks and learning materials that have demonstrated excellence over time.
A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk's Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition's extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.
This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.
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PART I. THEORY AND RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
1. History, Theory, and Research Strategies
PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
2. Genetic and Environmental Foundations
3. Prenatal Development
4. Birth and the Newborn Baby
PART III. INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
5. Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
6. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
7. Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
PART IV. EARLY CHILDHOOD: TWO TO SIX YEARS
8. Physical Development in Early Childhood
9. Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
10. Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
PART V. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: SIX TO ELEVEN YEARS
11. Physical Development in Middle Childhood
12. Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
13. Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
PART VI. ADOLESCENCE: THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
14. Physical Development in Adolescence
15. Cognitive Development in Adolescence
16. Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
17. Emerging Adulthood
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Instructor Resource Site
Instructor’s resources included with this text:
An array of high-quality instructor materials accompanies Infants, Children, and Adolescents:
Instructor’s resources included with this text:
An array of high-quality instructor materials accompanies Infants, Children, and Adolescents:
- Instructor's Resource Manual (IRM). The IRM can be used by first-time or experienced instructors to enrich classroom experiences. Each chapter includes a brief chapter summary; a chapter outline; lecture enhancements that present cutting-edge topics along with suggestions for using the content in class; and learning activities that provide "live" examples of research findings, discussion topics, and written assignments. Also included are model answers to the text’s Ask Yourself questions and listings of available videos on relevant topics.
- Test Bank. The Test Bank contains over 2,000 multiple-choice and essay questions, each of which is page-referenced to chapter content and also classified by type and difficulty level.
- PowerPoint™ Presentation. The PowerPoint presentation provides outlines and illustrations of key topics for each chapter of the text.
This is an excellent resource that I will add to the recommended reading section of the course syllabus. However, I find it provides more detail than my students can typically use and digest, so I can't consider it as a primary text.
Psychology, Touro College
September 11, 2023
Excellent structured breakdown of child and adolescent development appropriate for an undergraduate population. I especially like the consistent and methodical nature in which the topic was covered. It is helpful to have a system that students can easily follow.
Psychology, South College
May 28, 2023
Offers a comprehensive overview of development for infants, children and adolescents. While there has been a change in the images presented and more representation of our global diversity there is however a need to more intentionality include people of color in being active thinkers and developers of development theories. The theorists and researchers presented in the text continue to be monolithic in terms of race, gender and ability. Additionality I have questions around some of the ableist language used in sections describing disabilities.
Education, Linn Benton Community College
March 4, 2023
It has been the book the college decided to use before I was employed.
College Of Education, Black Hills State University
August 19, 2022
School use the textbook before I was employed.
College Of Education, Black Hills State University
August 19, 2022
