Experience Human Development [with Connect Access Card]

by Diane E. Papalia, Gabriela Martorell

Experience the human side of development.
Papalia helps students experience the human side of development by exposing them to culture and diversity, immersing them in practical application, and helping them study smarter through personalized learning and reporting.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Textbooks

578 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2014

About the author

As a professor, Diane E. Papalia has taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her bachelor's degree, majoring in psychology, from Vassar College and both her master's degree in child development and family relations and her Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology from West Virginia University. She has published numerous articles in such professional journals as Human Development, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Sex Roles, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Journal of Gerontology. Most of these papers have dealt with her major research focus, cognitive development from childhood through old age.

Reviews

[ثمین پذیرائی · Rating 5 out of 5]

پاپالیا رو برای ارشد خوندم و خب رفرنس خوبی برای رشد توی رشته روانشناسی هست💛

[Sam Niet Vonhof · Rating 3 out of 5]

idk, niet heel erg fijn om te lezen maar doet wat het moet doen denk ik.

[Heather Lavigne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Posting this review because I don’t see many others. I currently use this book to teach my Human Development class. Overall, it does the job and I haven’t had any complaints. I think concepts are explained clearly and I like how the author discusses how different developmental phenomena are affected by gender, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. I also like the boxes embedded within each chapter that talk about new advances in research or current topics in human development. My students read these boxes and lead a discussion each class which they seem to enjoy.

My biggest issue is that the supporting instructor resources offered by McGraw Hill feel pretty dated and subpar. I’ve grabbed some of the PowerPoint material but I’ve almost always had to supplement with my own content like videos, illustrations, pictures, and slide design. The exam question test bank also feels like it could be much better. I almost always prefer to write my own questions versus using the ones from the exam bank.

While I think the book is pretty accessible, it’s worth shopping around to see if there are others that you like better before you commit.

[Hezekiah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Out of the textbooks I've read in preparation for the Psychometrician Licensure Exam, this one was the most polarizing - when the content was great, the experience made me feel so invested and attuned to learning, but then when the content was tedious, the experience made me feel so bored and uninterested.

The highlights this book had were the earlier and final parts. The earlier parts covered the different theories pertaining to human development, which was quite fun to learn; however, I did wish that it went to more detail. On the other hand, the latter parts discussed adulthood until death in a more succinct way compared to the chapters discussing childhood. I thought that the theories regarding how people lived in adulthood, the concept of aging, and the process of grief and bereavement were explained well and I was able to have a lot of information from this section.

As for the weaker side, the chapters covering childhood truly dragged on. The way that the sections were divided into the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development was a good idea in theory; however, I felt that some of the topics discussed were redundant across those parts. Additionally, some of the statistical information seemed irrelevant to me and didn't feel like it was necessary to add to the textbook.

[Cata]

Es un libro complementario que a decir verdad te guía de una manera muy sencilla y esclarecedora. En lo personal no me gustó que la mayoría de los datos fueran siempre de estadounidenses, pero se entiende el por qué. Me encanta que al inicio de cada capitulo hubiera una frase, fue mi cosa favorita.

Mis favoritas fueron:

"Es más fácil formar niños fuertes que reparar hombres destrozados"— Feredick Douglas (1818-1895).

"Nada es permanente, salvo el cambio"— Heráclito, fragmento (s. VI a. C.)

Si bien los genes y la familia determinan la estructura, son el tiempo y el lugar los quw determinan su forma"— Jerome Kagan, citado en Childhood, Robert H. Wozniak (1991).

"Aún tengo cada edad que tuve"—Madeleine L'Engle.

"La muerte no es lo contrario de la vida, sino parte de ella"— Haruki Murakami.

Asimismo, me alegra que el libro se vaya actualizando cada ciertos años y cambiando en ciertas áreas.

[Digital Bookshelf]

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[Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually studied through the 15th edition for my Human Development class but I don't see it on here as an option. It was a great text, teaching us so much about human development and I loved all the statistics in it!

[Aidan Lazuardi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had to read this for my psychology class in college. Turns out, experiencing human development is as much heartwarming as it is depressing. Outside of developmental psychology classes, I think all adults, expecting parents, hell, everyone should read this book atleast once in their life.

[LATA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rated it

[Iulia G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the French edition of this book...couldn't find it on the site...but I think this book should be a MUST for all people who work with children, in education, teachers or other social studies.

[Megan]

Yes, I really did read this whole textbook!

[Grace Lynch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wished the textbook went further into things. A lot of the explanations were confusing and do not give much for examples or explanation.

[꩜ ֶָ֢ ⭒milky way · Rating 4 out of 5]

recommended by my child-development professor; extremely informative and easy to follow. i'll come back to this one often.

[Brianne Gallas · Rating 2 out of 5]

they all die at the end

[Limor Dubrovsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Front to back let’s go

[Cata · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me tomo mis primeros 2 semestres casi completos de universidad poder terminarlo, pero me alegro mucho de haber adquirido este libro, ya que me sirvio mucho como un complementario a mis estudios.