Development Across the Life Span, Global Edition -- Revel

Forcourses in Lifespan Development

A compelling blend of lifespan development research and applications
Development Across the Life Span provides a chronologicaloverview of human development from the moment of conception through death,examining both the traditional areas of the field and more recent innovations.Author Robert Feldman focuses on how developmental findings can be appliedmeaningfully and practically, helping students to recognize the relevance ofthe discipline to their own lives. Thoroughly updated with the latest researchand contemporary examples, the 9th Edition better ensures thatstudents make connections between course concepts and their own lives andfuture careers.

PART 1: BEGINNINGS
1. An Introduction to Lifespan Development
2. The Start of Life: Prenatal Development
3. Birth and the Newborn Infant
 
PART 2: INFANCY: FORMING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE
4. Physical Development in Infancy
5. Cognitive Development in Infancy
6. Social and Personality Development in Infancy
 
PART 3: THE PRESCHOOL YEARS
7. Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
8. Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years
 
PART 4: THE MIDDLE CHILDHOOD YEARS
9. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
10. Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood
 
PART 5: ADOLESCENCE
11. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
12. Social and Personality Development in Adolescence
 
PART 6: EARLY ADULTHOOD
13. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
14. Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood
 
PART 7: MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
15. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
16. Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood
 
PART 8: LATE ADULTHOOD
17. Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
18. Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood
19. Death and Dying

Robert S. Feldman isProfessor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Senior Advisor to theChancellor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A recipient of theCollege Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging insize from 10 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than threedecades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduatecourses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and VirginiaCommonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts.
 
Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at theUniversity of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow andSenior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses inpsychology at the University of Massachusetts.
 
A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association forPsychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement ofScience, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from WesleyanUniversity (from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award). He has anM.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a winner of aFulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written morethan 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Developmentof Nonverbal Behavior in Children (Springer-Verlag) and Applicationsof Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), andco-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (CambridgeUniversity Press). He is also author of Child Development, UnderstandingPsychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success inCollege and Life. His books have been translated into many languages,including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, German, Arabic,and Japanese. His research interests include honesty and deception in everydaylife, work that he described in The Liar in Your Life, a trade bookpublished in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the NationalInstitute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities andRehabilitation Research.
 
Professor Feldman is past president of the Federation of Associations ofBehavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation, a consortium of societies thatbenefit the social sciences. In addition, he is on the board of New EnglandPublic Radio. Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, andenjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children and four grandchildren, andhe and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a homeoverlooking the Holyoke Mountain Range.