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Development in Infancy: A Contemporary Introduction
This topically-organized text provides a comprehensive overview of infant development with a strong theoretical and research base. Readers gain a clear understanding of infant development and issues that will be the focus of significant advances in infancy studies in the future. The new fifth edition reflects the enormous changes in the field that have occurred over the past decade. The thoroughly revised chapters emphasize work from the 21st century, although classic references are retained, and explore contextual, methodological, neurological, physical, perceptual, cognitive, communicative, emotional, and social facets of infant development. The fifth edition features a more accessible style and enhanced pedagogical and teaching resource program.
This extensively revised edition features a number of changes:
The fifth edition adds a new co-author, Martha Arterberry, who brings additional teaching and research skills to the existing author team.
An enhanced pedagogical program features orienting questions at the beginning of each chapter and boldfaced key terms listed at the end of the chapter and defined in the glossary to help facilitate understanding and learning.
Two new boxes in each chapter Science in Translation illustrate applied issues and Set for Life highlight the significance of infancy for later development.
Increased emphasis on practical applications and social policy.
More graphs, tables, and photos that explain important concepts and findings.
Literature reviews are thoroughly updated and reflect contemporary research.
All new teaching web resources -- Instructors will find Power Points, electronic versions of the text figures, and a test bank, and students will find hyperlinked references and electronic versions of the key concepts and the definitions.
Intended for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on infant (and toddler) development or infancy or early child development taught in departments of psychology, human development & family studies, education, nursing, social work, and anthropology, this book also appeals to social service providers, policy makers, and clergy who work with community institutions. Prerequisites include introductory courses on child development and general psychology.
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This extensively revised edition features a number of changes:
The fifth edition adds a new co-author, Martha Arterberry, who brings additional teaching and research skills to the existing author team.
An enhanced pedagogical program features orienting questions at the beginning of each chapter and boldfaced key terms listed at the end of the chapter and defined in the glossary to help facilitate understanding and learning.
Two new boxes in each chapter Science in Translation illustrate applied issues and Set for Life highlight the significance of infancy for later development.
Increased emphasis on practical applications and social policy.
More graphs, tables, and photos that explain important concepts and findings.
Literature reviews are thoroughly updated and reflect contemporary research.
All new teaching web resources -- Instructors will find Power Points, electronic versions of the text figures, and a test bank, and students will find hyperlinked references and electronic versions of the key concepts and the definitions.
Intended for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on infant (and toddler) development or infancy or early child development taught in departments of psychology, human development & family studies, education, nursing, social work, and anthropology, this book also appeals to social service providers, policy makers, and clergy who work with community institutions. Prerequisites include introductory courses on child development and general psychology.
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- GenresPsychology
430 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2002
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April 26, 2021
The more I read this text the more I asked do these researchers even LIKE studying infants?!? I swear just about every single chapter (or several times in a chapter) they discussed how difficult infants are to study. I think we all inherently understand that infants cannot articulate their understanding of their environment say it once and move on!
It covered EVERYTHING you could ever ask about infancy without being a PhD in any one specific area but it sure felt like that was the goal per chapter. That and did we mention infants don't make good test subjects?!? Seriously we got it!
It covered EVERYTHING you could ever ask about infancy without being a PhD in any one specific area but it sure felt like that was the goal per chapter. That and did we mention infants don't make good test subjects?!? Seriously we got it!
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