Child Development (9th Edition) USED

Details : 

Author : E. Berk Laura
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson Education
Publication date :25 March 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 800 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9332585202
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789332585201
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1550 g 

About The Book

A best-selling, topically organized child development text, Berk’s Child Development is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural and multi-cultural focus, rich examples and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.
Features:
1. Thoroughly Engaging Writing Style
2. Appealing and Meaningful Applications
3. Outstanding Pedagogical Features
4. Beautiful Artwork, Graphics and Photographs
5. New and Enhanced Material in Each Chapter
Contents:
Part I: Theory and Research in Child Development
1 History, Theory and Applied Directions
2 Research Strategies
Part II: Foundations of Development
3 Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development and Birth
4 Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills and Perceptual Capacities
5 Physical Growth
Part III: Cognitive and Language Development
6 Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge and Vygotskian Perspectives
7 Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective
8 Intelligence
9 Language Development
Part IV: Personality and Social Development
10 Emotional Development
11 Self and Social Understanding
12 Moral Development
13 Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles
Part V: Contexts for Development
14 The Family
15 Peers, Media and Schooling

About the Author

Laura E. Berk is a distinguished professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught child and human development to both undergraduate and graduate students for more than three decades. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her master's and doctoral degrees in child development and educational psychology from the University of Chicago. She has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of South Australia.

Berk has published widely on the effects of school environments on children's development, the development of private speech, and most recently, the role of makebelieve play in development. Her research has been funded by the U.S. Office of Education and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It has appeared in many prominent journals, including Child Development, Developmental Psychology,Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Her empirical studies have attracted the attention of the general public, leading to contributions to Psychology Today and Scientific American.