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Provides students the most support for learning and success

The Developing Child, 13e gives students the tools they need to organize, retain, and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application.

Through The Developing Child, 13e Helen Bee and Denise Boyd generate excitement about scientific inquiry by connecting research with applications. All integrated features within the text are designed to engage students and provide them with the support they need to understand, learn, and apply the material. Interactive resources like MyPsychLab with MyVirtualChild offer students additional support and the ultimate hands-on learning experience.

Teaching & Learning Experience

• Personalize Learning – MyPsychLab 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.
• Improve Critical Thinking - Interactive resources like MyPsychLab with MyVirtualChild encourage students to apply chapter content to real life situations.
• Engage Students - A strong balance of research and applications maintains student interest.
• Explore Research – Every chapter includes a research report and a “Conduct Your Own Research” feature that allows readers to replicate the findings of a developmental study.
• Understand Culture and Diversity — Cross-cultural differences in language, identity, and gender are explored.
• Support Instructors - MyPsychLab’s Class Prep, MyVirtualChild, video embedded PowerPoints, MyTest, clicker questions, and an instructor’s manual provide instructors with extensive materials to supplement the text.

Features

PROVIDES STUDENTS THE MOST SUPPORT FOR LEARNING AND SUCCESS

• Topical organization provides a cohesive arrangement of topics based on the various types of development.
• 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.

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.
• MyDevelopmentLab Videos are related to specific content in the text, MyVirtualChild, self-tests, personalized student study plans, flashcards, an eText and other student support resources are available online.
• 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.
• 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

• Thinking about Research - Every chapter includes a boxed discussion of a particularly important study or series of studies. Each Research Report ends with two questions for critical analysis, which encourage readers to critically evaluate the findings presented in the box.(ex. p. 104)
• Think Critically Questions at the end of the chapter encourage students to relate information in the text to their own personal experiences. (Ex. p. 79)
• A personalized study p

New to this Edition

Found in this section:
1. Overview of changes
2. Chapter-by-chapter changes

1. Overview of Changes PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYDEVELOPMENT LAB

• 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.
• MyDevelopmentLab Videos are related to specific content in the text, MyVirtualChild, self-tests, personalized student study plans, flashcards, an eText and other student support resources are available online.
• 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.
• 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.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• A variety of student-focused applications make the study of child development interesting and engaging with an emphasis on practical, take-home information for students of varying majors and backgrounds.
• New Technology and the Developing Child Feature Boxes. Each chapter includes a new boxed discussion exploring technology’s impact on child development. An emphasis on exciting and pioneering research encourages you to think about both the potential negatives and positives associated with growing up in a digital age, from the rise of cyber bullying to advances in fetal-maternal medicine.
• New Learning Objectives Tied to Feature Boxes. Improving on the learning system that helps you ORGANIZE and RETAIN chapter material as you read, we have added Learning Objectives to feature boxes to help you connect feature content to the learning goals of each section and chapter. As with the rest of the Learning Objectives, you will find them in the margins and in the Summary of each chapter so that you can structure your review.
• New Chapter Self-Tests at the end of the book! New to this editi

Table of Contents

• Part I: Introduction
• Chapter 1: Basic Issues in the Study of Development
• Part II: The Beginnings of Life
• Chapter 2: Prenatal Development
• Chapter 3: Birth and Early Infancy
• Part III: The Physical Child
• Chapter 4: Physical Development
• Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
• Part IV: The Thinking Child
• Chapter 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
• Chapter 7: Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
• Chapter 8: The Development of Language
• Part V: The Social Child
• Chapter 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views
• Chapter 10: Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles
• Chapter 11: The Development of Social Relationships
• Chapter 12: Thinking about Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development
• Part VI: The Whole Child
• Chapter 13: The Ecology of Development: The Child within the Family System
• Chapter 14: Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
• Chapter 15: Atypical Development
• Epilogue: Putting It All Together: The Developing Child

Author

Denise Boyd received her Ed.D. in educational psychology from the University of Houston and has been a psychology instructor in the Houston Community College System since 1988. From 1995 until 1998, she chaired the psychology, sociology, and anthropology department at Houston Community College—Central. She has coauthored multiple Pearson texts: with Helen Bee, Lifespan Development (Sixth Edition) and The Growing Child (First Edition); and with Genevieve Stevens, Current Readings in Lifespan Development . A licensed psychologist, she has presented a number of papers at professional meetings, reporting research in child, adolescent, and adult development. She has also presented workshops for teachers whose students range from preschool to college.