Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood

by Laura E. Berk

Now published by SAGE!

A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s Infants and Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, Ninth Edition 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.

Infants and Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, Ninth Edition is a briefer version of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Ninth Edition offering the first 13 chapters for child development courses that do not cover adolescence.

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Genres: School, Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Education

3254 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Christa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was informative and gives a great overview of major topics in early childhood development while also highlighting some less prevalent ideas as alternatives. However, I found some really egregious assumptions in its pages (particularly about people of low economic status and people from non-American and non-White cultures), and some weird things stated as fact that have yet to be determined by research (for example, that women absolutely should not smoke marijuana when the effects of occasional marijuana use by pregnant women hasn't really been studied). That said, it's an easy read and the lack of objectivity on some subjects is pretty apparent to anyone who has some ECE background.

[Görkem Saylam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood | Laura E. Berk
Scoring Rubric
1: baseline
2: creative contextualization bcs of covering almost all child development basics in prenatal era through middle childhood
1: routine conceptualization bcs of no new holistic comprehension on child development in prenatal era through middle childhood
4: total points by 5

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used this text while teaching Child Development for the first time. The chapters are well organized, and it's written at an approachable level. The instructor's materials and Revel were very helpful.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for schooling.

[piper · Rating 3 out of 5]

finally finishing books i’ve been reading for a whole semester is the best feeling lol
child development 🫶🫶🫶

[yasmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

LETS GO!!!! manifesting the A+

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's good though at times repetitive and exhaustive.

[Jesse Booth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I studied this textbook for a Psych class in college. I found many of the insights and studies within this book helpful and informative. I feel like I understand my own children quite a bit better, and hopefully, I'll be a better father to them because of it. I will agree with the other reviewers that there is some bias and assumptions on the author's part, but often she even states that there have been no studies associated with these theories.

[Keeley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough and easy to read. Loved the research backed theory to how children grow and learn.

[Mariah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and easy to read. I would have never read it if it wasn't required for school but I did enjoy it. Always a plus in my book.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the book, but political biases abound throughout which was a disappointment. I don't care what your political views are, I want facts supported by research.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a textbook. It was ok as far as textbooks go.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book. It was very helpful in my understanding child growth and development.