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Research Stories for Lifespan Development

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ISBN-10: 0205340547

ISBN-13: 9780205340545

Edition: 2002

Authors: Lary Shaffer, Alan Morrison

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This non-traditional text familiarizes students with the scientific approach to the study of human development, while exploring the chronology of a typical lifespan text. In evaluating contemporary research literature on human development, students are guided to critically assess assertions about behavior. Students see the field of human development as it is today, through 32 separate research stories, which tell why the study was done, what was done, and what the results tell us about development. This text--with its detailed Instructor's Manual-- is a complete teaching package permitting first-time instructors to employ a directive, Socratic teaching method, or for experienced…    
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Book details

List price: $106.65
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Prenatal & Neonatal Development
Sound Familiar?: Experiments and infant memory
Deep Roots: Correlations and infant temperament
Drinking Without Thinking: Sensitive periods and teratogens
The Nose Knows: Behavioral observation and recognition of infants by smell
First Two Years
Gimme the Ball: Object Permanence and Piagetian theory
Attachment in Separation: Quasi experiments and maternal attachment
A Family Affair: Ecological psychology and maternal employment
Please Pass the Vegetables: Graph interpretation and egocentricity
Early Childhood - 2 Years to 6 Years
Spare the Rod: Punishment and aggression
Reach for the Sky: Cognitive immaturity and affordance judging
Some Restrictions May Apply: Deprivation and maltreatment
Chip Off the Old Block: Genetics and psychological characteristics
Later Childhood - 7 Years to 12 Years
Watching and Weighting: Childhood obesity and television watching
Boldface Letters: Attributions and learned helplessness
It All Adds Up: Ethnicity and academic performance
Watch Yourself: Behavioral therapy and self-management. Adolescence
At a Loss for Words: Sensitive periods and language development
Coming of Age: Pubertal timing and adolescent behavior
Apparent from the Parents: Parenting styles and adolescent behavior
Making the Grade: Early intervention and intellectual outcomes
Early Adulthood
Who's Old First?: Physical declines in early adulthood
Let's See What This Baby Can Do: Birth and parent schedules
Love Makes the World Go 'Round: Evolutionary psychology and jealousy
Take a Whiff: Evolutionary psychology and mate choice
Middle Adulthood
Work it Out: Exercise in middle adulthood
Blowing in the Wind: Disaster in middle adulthood
Back to Work: Unemployment in late middle age
For Better or Worse: Marital satisfaction and locus of control
Late Adulthood
Old Folks at Home: Activities of daily living in late adulthood
Over the Hill: A prospective cohort study and intellectual functioning
Please Don't Depend on Me: Dependent behavior in institutions
Termination of the Termites: Psychological correlates of life span length