Known for its clear, straightforward writing style, grounding in current research, and well-chosen visuals and examples, Sigelman and Rider's text combines a topical organization at the chapter level and an age/stage organization within each chapter. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Each chapter also includes sections on infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The organization helps you grasp key transformations that occur in each period of the life span. Other staples of the text are its emphasis on theories and their application to different aspects of development and its focus on the interplay of nature and nurture in development. This edition includes new research on biological and sociocultural influences on life-span development and offers new media resources that help you engage more actively with the content.
1. Understanding Life-Span Human Development.
2. Theories of Human Development.
3. Genes, Environment, and Development.
4. Prenatal Development and Birth.
5. Body, Brain, and Health.
6. Sensation, Perception, and Action.
7. Cognition.
8. Memory and Information Processing.
9. Intelligence and Creativity.
10. Language and Education.
11. Self and Personality.
12. Gender Roles and Sexuality.
13. Social Cognition and Moral Development.
14. Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships
15. The Family.
16. Developmental Psychopathology.
17. The Final Challenge: Death and Dying.
Appendix: Careers in Human Development.
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Carol K. Sigelman
Carol K. Sigelman is professor of psychology at George Washington University, where she also was an associate vice president for 13 years and department chair for four years. She previously served on the faculty at Texas Tech University, Eastern Kentucky University (where she won her college's outstanding teacher award) and the University of Arizona. In addition to teaching courses in child, adolescent, adult and life-span development, Dr. Sigelman has published research on the communication skills of individuals with developmental disabilities, the development of stigmatizing reactions to children and adolescents who are different, children's emerging understandings of diseases and psychological disorders, and parent-child communication at a distance in military families. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a double-major doctorate in English and psychology from George Peabody College for Teachers, now part of Vanderbilt University. For fun, she enjoys hiking, biking and discovering undiscovered movies.
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Elizabeth A. Rider
Elizabeth A. Rider is professor of psychology, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. She previously served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has taught courses on child and life-span development, women and gender issues, applied developmental psychology, and genetic and environmental influences on development. Through a grant from the Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education, Dr. Rider studied factors associated with academic success. She has published research on children's and adults' spatial perception, orientation and ability to find their way, and she is the author of OUR VOICES (John Wiley & Sons), a text on the psychology of women. She earned her undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and her doctorate from Vanderbilt University. When she is not working, she is busy with home and yard projects and two energetic dogs.
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Building on the book's reputation for a solid research basis, Sigelman and Rider include hundreds of new research references in this edition.
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Brand new Investigate Development cases are included in MindTap, the digital learning solution that supports the text. These activities walk students through a life-span topic using a relatable real-life example. Students watch videos, consult research, investigate the evidence, and form a conclusion about the case.
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Personal stories of real people, along with overviews of important topics throughout the text as seen from a developmental perspective, are animated and featured in MindTap®.
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The text's integrated topical and chronological approach remains its most unique and important feature. Chapters are organized topically to emphasize developmental processes, such as how nature and nurture interact over the life span to bring about typical developmental changes as well as individual differences in development. Within each chapter, discussion is organized into four major chronological sections (infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood) so that students appreciate the distinctive qualities of each age/stage.
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Coverage of nature/nurture issues is strengthened further in this edition. To convey the complexities of the interplay between nature and nurture, the authors pay special attention to genes, hormones, neural functioning, and other biological forces in development, while also showing how environmental forces influence biology and how development is affected by the social and cultural context in which the individual develops. A unique developmental psychopathology chapter brings home the complexities of the roles played by nature and nurture in the development of psychological disorders.
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At the end of each major section, Checking Mastery questions help students gauge their progress and Making Connections questions invite students to reflect on the material -- to weigh in on a debate in the field, evaluate the material's implications for public policy, apply the material to a case example, or explore the material's relevance to their own development.
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Exploration boxes allow more in-depth investigation of research on selected topics (for example, generational differences, gene-environment interaction, sports-related traumatic brain injury, typical versus atypical memory changes in later life, language acquisition among deaf children, the paradox of intelligent people who make dumb decisions, living transgender in today's world; coaching children's emotional development, dating among LGBT adolescents, and parenting in cultural context).
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Application boxes examine how knowledge has been applied to optimize development (for instance, to prevent sexual risk taking, promote healthy babies, improve cognitive functioning, combat negative stereotypes of aging, strengthen relationships, prevent family violence, and support bereaved families).
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Engagement boxes provide opportunities for students to engage actively and personally with the material: they assess their own knowledge, beliefs, traits, and attitudes by completing personality scales, test items, surveys, and short quizzes.
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