A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development
By:
John Santrock
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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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John Santrock’s A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development text continues with the themes of research, applications, and contexts that he is famous for. Students and instructors alike love it for its pedagogy and accessible writing. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition features more current research, more applications including new Careers in Life-Span Development profiles, and a new Visual Assets Database for Instructors.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Lacking Depth & Warning to Students & Instructors - Although this textbook provides a decent account of life-span development, the third edition provided more depth. I appreciate the updated research included in the 5th edition; there are studies cited from 2010. The first half of the book is more interesting but becomes too general as it progresses. If you are an instructor using this book in your course, make sure to include supplemental readings; otherwise, your students will not fully grasp many of the theories touched on in the textbook.
Students using this book, beware: there are practice quizzes you can take online as a service provided by the textbook company; however, you won't find all of the answers in your 5th edition, but the answers are in the third edition. The textbook company did not update most of their questions for the 5th edition textbook, and huge chunks of the 3rd edition textbook are missing from the 5th.
Instructors need to be aware of the quiz questions provided by the company when they order the book. Many of the answers to the questions cannot be found in the fifth edition. Students need the third edition or maybe even the fourth edition to find the answers. If you decide to use their quiz questions, make sure you can find the answers in the fifth edition before administering the quizzes to your students. The company will assure you that they have updated the answers and questions, but I can cite multiple instances where that is far from true. For example, they have questions about research and terms which are not in the 5th edition but can easily be found in the 3rd edition. My advice: make your own quiz and test questions.
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Needed it for school - Arrived very quickly. Professor didn't teach from all of the chapters, but those we covered were easy to understand and the text was helpful in passing the course.
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Fast delivery - I received this book only 2 days after it was ordered. I truly enjoyed the fast service. Thank you.
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Very good! - This book definitely serves its purpose. In my college developmental psychology class we do a lot of reading, and this book makes it interesting and understandable. The only thing that I don't like is that throughout the writing there are parenthesis with the names of the researchers who found the information. It gets kind of confusing. But other than that, it's a great book that I would certainly recommend!
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Life - Cool book if you are looking to learn about human development. It is big and cost a lot, but it contains recent studies.
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