Child Development (6e)

Most balanced presentation of research and applications

Feldman’s Child Development, 6e offers students a balanced and up-to-date study of theory and research with a focus on application to students’ personal lives and future careers.

Child Development 6e introduces students to the theories, research, and applications of child and adolescent development. Organized chronologically, the book features a variety of student-focused tools that make the study of development interesting and engaging. It highlights the interrelationships between theory, research, and application, accentuating the scope and diversity of the field. It also illustrates how child developmentalists use theory, research, and applications to help solve significant social problems.  An emphasis on practical, take-home information provides students with lessons they can use both now and in the future. 

Teaching & Learning Experience

• Personalize Learning — The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• Apply Developmental Science and Engage Students - A strong balance of research and applications maintains student interest throughout every section in the text.
• Improve Critical Thinking — Reflective questions included within MyVirtualChild encouraging students to think critically and apply chapter content to real life situations as they raise their own virtual child.
• Explore Research — “From Research to Practice” and “Are You an Informed Consumer of Development?” show students how they can apply the concepts they’re learning in the text to real life situations.
• Understand Culture and Diversity — “Developmental Diversity” sections highlight issues relevant in today’s multicultural society.
• Support Instructors - Class Prep, MyVirtualChild, Video embedded PowerPoints, MyTest, clicker questions, and an instructor’s manual provide extensive support for instructors.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• MyVirtualChild - By incorporating physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels, MyVirtualChild gives students an opportunity to apply their course work to their own experiences of raising a virtual child.
• MyDevelopmentLab Icons in the textbook encourage students to visit MyDevelopmentLab to view videos, simulations, and to read more about specific topics in the text. Within the Pearson eText students can link directly to these MyDevelopmentLab resources by clicking on the in-text icons.
• MyDevelopmentLab Review at the end of each section within the chapters provides a sampling of questions on key points, and invites the student to logon to MyDevelopmentLab online for additional review questions and a wealth of other student resources.
• The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
• A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
• Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• Addition of Learning Objectives - Specific numbered learning objectives are listed at the start of each chapter and are integrated throughout the chapters.
• A personalized study plan is available for each student on MyDevelopmentLab. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, it arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course by showing them where to focus their study efforts in order to achieve mastery of the content. 

SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS

• The new MyDevelopmentLab contains better assessment and reporting features.
• Assessment tied to MyDevelopmentLab videos, applications, and chapter quizzes enable both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar on MyDevelopmentLab allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• Updates to MyVirtualChild include the ability for instructors to re-set their own virtual child.  Instructors can now add and assign their own reflective questions or remove all reflective questions if they like. Both students and instructors can easily locate and access student responses to the MyVirtualChild reflective questions. 
• An audio version of the text and close captioned videos on MyDevelopmentLab expand student accessibility for online materials and comply with ADA standards.

The following is a list of new and revised topics:

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Child Development
Social construction of childhood periods
Sensitive and critical periods
Emerging adulthood
Violent video games and empathy
Collectivistic orientation
Individualistic orientation
 
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives and Research
Race to the Top
Violence and Christina-Taylor Green/Giffords shooting
Graphical representation of experiment
Qualitative research
 
Chapter 3: The Start of Life: Genetics and Prenatal Development
New & Revised Topics
Maternal depression during pregnancy
Home genetic testing
Examples of in vitro fertilization
Mental health during pregnancy
IVF statistics
Stillbirth
 
Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn Infant
Cesarean section rate racial difference
U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act provisions
Vaccination controversies
Bonding
Post-traumatic stress syndrome and stillbirth
 
Chapter 5: Physical Development in Infancy
Milk formula
Auditory cortex
Visual cortex
Brain plasticity
 
Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy
Educational toys and media
Violation-of-expectation and object permanence
Nonhuman numeric skills
Infant-directed speech and foreigner-directed speech
 
Chapter 7: Social and Personality Development in Infancy
Infant emotions
Jealousy
High reactivity and brain structure
Infant temperament and susceptibility to depression and anxiety disorders in adulthood
Fusiform gyrus and adult attention to children’s faces

Chapter 8: Physical Development in the Preschool Years
Economic benefits of outside-the-home child care
Racial and ethnic differences in spanking
Lead poisoning and artificial turf

Chapter 9: Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on media use
Forensic developmental psychology
Preparing preschoolers for future education
Media use and age trends

Chapter 10: Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years
Play and brain development
Preschool admission applications and parenting
Parenting coaches
Racial disparities in custodial parents
 
Chapter 11: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
Body image and the media
Racial and ethnic considerations in body image
Accidental death rates
Asthma triggers
ADHD and brain development
 
Chapter 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Race to the top
Race and ethnicity changes in U.S. population
Reading motivation and Harry Potter
 
Chapter 13: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
Gay and lesbian parenting
Stress, poverty, and susceptibility to disease
Children of immigrant parents
Dealing with bullying
New statistics on single-parent households

Chapter 14: Physical Development in Adolescence
Cyber bullying
Obesity and fast foods
Risks of social networking sites
Sleep deprivation in adolescents
Bullying and Phoebe Prince case
New statistics on marijuana use
AIDS epidemic update

Chapter 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
No child left behind
Adolescents' use of technology
Visual impairment invention
Adolescents’ online behavior
Stereotype threat
High school dropout rates
Statistics on self-ratings of ability
Women's earnings as a percentage of men's earnings

Chapter 16: Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
Religion
Spirituality
Racial and ethnic identity
Teenage pregnancy rate changes
Racial and ethnic differences in timing of first intercourse
Sexting

BALANCED PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

• Chronological organization helps students experience the realistic sequence of child development.
• Applications integrated throughout the text engage students in the research and helps them see how the material applies to their own lives and future careers.
• MyVirtualChild, included within MyDevelopmentLab or sold as a standalone product, is an interactive simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.  By incorporating physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels, MyVirtualChild helps students think critically as they apply their course work to the practical experiences of raising a virtual child. The program also provides students with feedback and includes observational videos to illustrate key concepts.
• Observation Videos bring to life key concepts discussed within the narrative of the text. Available for instructors on DVD and in ClassPrep, and for students on MyDevelopmentLab.

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYDEVELOPMENTLAB

• The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• MyVirtualChild - By incorporating physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels, MyVirtualChild gives students an opportunity to apply their course work to their own experiences of raising a virtual child.
• MyDevelopmentLab Icons in the textbook encourage students to visit MyDevelopmentLab to view videos, simulations, and to read more about specific topics in the text. Within the Pearson eText students can link directly to these MyDevelopmentLab resources by clicking on the in-text icons.
• MyDevelopmentLab Review at the end of each section within the chapters provides a sampling of questions on key points, and invites the student to logon to MyDevelopmentLab online for additional review questions and a wealth of other student resources.
• The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want–including listening online or downloading to iPad.
• A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking–like remembering and understanding–to more complex critical thinking–like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
• Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early–and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

APPLY DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE & ENGAGE STUDENTS

• MyVirtualChild, included within MyDevelopmentLab or sold as a standalone product, is an interactive simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.  By incorporating physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels, MyVirtualChild helps students think critically as they apply their course work to the practical experiences of raising a virtual child. The program also provides students with feedback and includes observational videos to illustrate key concepts.
• Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? - Every chapter includes information on specific uses derived from research conducted by developmental investigators. This feature expands on the chapter coverage by showing relevance and application to everyday situations, such as finding a child-care provider.(ex. pg. 93)
• From Research to Practice boxes appear in each chapter to focus discussion on how developmental research can be used in everyday life. From child-rearing issues to applying developmental research to public policy, this boxed feature helps students think about developmental research outside of the classroom. (ex. p. 78)
• Careers in Child Development boxes contain interviews with individuals who work in a career that relies on information from the field of child development, connecting students to the wide range of careers that rely on developmental research and information. (ex. 98) 
• “From the Perspective of…” questions - Students will encounter frequent questions throughout the text designed to show the applicability of the material to a variety of professions, including education, nursing, social work, and healthcare providers. (ex. p. 91)
• Case Studies at the end of every chapter provide thought provoking scenarios related to the chapter issues, followed by questions to hone students’ critical thinking skills. (ex. p. 81)
• Putting it All Together - A short vignette is presented and is summarized in terms of the three domains of development- Physical, Cognitive, and Social & Personality. Students are then asked to consider the vignette from their own point of view and from the point of view of parents and various professionals.  Students can visit MyDevelopmentLab to read how real professionals responded to the questions. (ex. pg. 110) 
• Review and Apply sections consist of three short recaps of the chapters’ main points, followed by questions designed to provoke critical thinking. (ex. p. 102)
• Observation Videos bring to life key concepts discussed within the narrative of the text. Available for instructors on DVD and in ClassPrep, and for students on MyDevelopmentLab. (ex. p. 104)
• Audio Text and eText in MyDevelopmentLab provides students with alternative formatting options.
• Learning Objectives - Specific numbered learning objectives are listed at the start of each chapter and are integrated throughout the chapters. (ex. p. 85)
• Looking Ahead questions in the text orient readers to the topics to be covered, bridging the opening prologue with the remainder of the chapter. Students are presented with questions that will be answered in the upcoming section of the text.  Looking Back provides a summary of the chapter by answering each of the "Looking Ahead" questions. (ex. p. 85)
• Key Terms with definitions appear on the page on which the term is first presented. Students can also review key terms using flashcards on MyDevelopmentLab.(ex. pg. 118)

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• MyVirtualChild Reflective Questions can be assigned as short writing assignments which helps students think critically as they reflect on their experience in raising a virtual child. 
• Learning Objectives - Specific numbered learning objectives are listed at the start of each chapter and are integrated throughout the chapters.
• Case Studies at the end of every chapter provide thought provoking scenarios related to the chapter issues, followed by questions to hone students’ critical thinking skills.
• A personalized study plan available for each student on MyDevelopmentLab, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking–like remembering and understanding–to more complex critical thinking–like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.

EXPLORE RESEARCH

• From Research to Practice boxes appear in each chapter to focus discussion on how developmental research can be used in everyday life. From child-rearing issues to applying developmental research to public policy, this boxed feature helps students think about developmental research outside of the classroom.
• Are You an Informed Consumer of Development? - Every chapter includes information on specific uses derived from research conducted by developmental investigators. This feature expands on the chapter coverage by showing relevance and application to everyday situations, such as finding a child-care provider.
• APS Reader, Current Directions in Developmental Psychology, 2e  is included on MyDevelopmentLab for both students and instructors.

UNDERSTAND CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

• Developmental Diversity sections highlight issues relevant to today's multicultural society, focusing on developmental theories that speak to the differences between—and similarities among—various groups of people. This feature helps to remind students of the concepts within child development that unite and diversify our global community.

SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS

• Assessment tied to MyDevelopmentLab videos, applications, and chapter quizzes enable both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early–and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar on MyDevelopmentLab allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• An Instructor’s Resource Manual includes learning objectives, key terms and concepts, self-contained lecture suggestions, and an annotated list of additional multimedia resources.
• MyVirtualChild Instructor’s Manual, written by MyVirtualChild author Frank Manis, includes detailed information on how the program works and suggestions for how to incorporate the program into your course.
• Test Item File with MyTest Software: Together with MyTest software, the Test Item File helps to ensure all text topics are covered, and takes the measure of student understanding to the next level.
   MyTest is a powerful assessment generation program that helps instructors easily  create and print quizzes and exams. Questions and tests can be authored online,  allowing instructors ultimate flexibility and the ability to efficiently manage  assessments anytime, anywhere! Instructors can easily access existing questions  and then edit, create, and store using simple drag-and-drop and Word-like  controls. Data on each question provides information relevant to difficulty level  and page number. For more information go to www.PearsonMyTest.com.
• Lecture PowerPoint slides for each chapter
• Using our video embedded PowerPoints on DVD, instructors can seamlessly integrate videos even without internet access.
• Classroom Response System (CRS) PowerPoint Slides - These class lecture and discussion slides incorporate CRS “clicker” questions that process student responses and interpret them instantly.
• ClassPrep on MyDevelopmentLab makes lecture preparation easier and less time-consuming! Pearson has collected the very “best of” instructor resources, including art and figures from our leading texts, videos, lecture activities, classroom activities, demonstrations and much more. Instructors are able to search through this extensive database by content topic or by content type (video, audio, simulation, word documents). ClassPrep allows instructors to select resources appropriate for lecture, many of which can be downloaded directly. Instructors can tag the online resources however they want, build their own folder of resources, and run their in class presentation from within the ClassPrep program.
• An audio version of the text and close captioned videos in MyDevelopmentLab expand student accessibility for online materials and comply with ADA standards.
• Create a Custom Text - For enrollments as low as 25 students, instructors can customize their own textbook by combining chapters from best-selling Pearson textbooks and/or reading selections in the sequence they want.  To begin building your custom text, visit www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. Instructors may also work with a dedicated Pearson Custom editor to create their ideal text—publishing their own original content or mixing and matching Pearson content. Contact a Pearson Publisher’s Representative to get started.